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What Causes High Blood Sugar Levels?
doctor said my body is making high blood sugar and has me taking 48mg of Fenofibrate and was told to not eat potatoes or noodles and that is all I was told the bottle is printed to take for my cholesterol I do not know nothing about all this and I'm 45 yrs old
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Hello,
Welcome to HCM.
What your doctor is likely telling you is that you are pre-diabetic.
If you were diabetic, your doctor would be prescribing diabetic medications for you. At this time he is advising you to change your eating habits and most likely he also advised you to exercise. It is called life style changes. Weight loss achieved through diet and exercise can prevent pre-diabetics from becoming diabetics.
As to Fenofibrate it is a medication for high lipids/cholesterol, which frequently is a condition present in patients who also have elevated sugar and are obese, and should be treated early to decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases like having heart attack or a stroke.
Your doctor likely has checked your blood tests - for diabetes he would check blood sugar level and so called hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) and for lipids/cholesterol he would have done a so called Lipid panel which includes total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol HDL cholesterol and triglycerides.
Next time you see your doctor ask him/her if he could show you/discuss these results.
HbA1c of 6.5 or higher done on two occasions makes a diagnosis of Diabetes mellitus.
HbA1c of 5.7 to 6.4 makes a diagnosis of pre-diabetes.
Hope I answered your question.
If you need additional information, I will be glad to clarify further.
Regards and best of health.
Welcome to HCM.
What your doctor is likely telling you is that you are pre-diabetic.
If you were diabetic, your doctor would be prescribing diabetic medications for you. At this time he is advising you to change your eating habits and most likely he also advised you to exercise. It is called life style changes. Weight loss achieved through diet and exercise can prevent pre-diabetics from becoming diabetics.
As to Fenofibrate it is a medication for high lipids/cholesterol, which frequently is a condition present in patients who also have elevated sugar and are obese, and should be treated early to decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases like having heart attack or a stroke.
Your doctor likely has checked your blood tests - for diabetes he would check blood sugar level and so called hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) and for lipids/cholesterol he would have done a so called Lipid panel which includes total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol HDL cholesterol and triglycerides.
Next time you see your doctor ask him/her if he could show you/discuss these results.
HbA1c of 6.5 or higher done on two occasions makes a diagnosis of Diabetes mellitus.
HbA1c of 5.7 to 6.4 makes a diagnosis of pre-diabetes.
Hope I answered your question.
If you need additional information, I will be glad to clarify further.
Regards and best of health.
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