[santacata]

Hi, I've been creeping into the prediabetic range for years and want to be aggressive with this because I watched my mother's unfortunate experience. So I finally convinced my doctor to look past my "normal" fasting blood glucose. I got an HbA1c of 6.4 and a one hour glucose tolerance of 233, two hour glucose tolerance of 105. I decided this meant I should make some big changes.

I figured that testing all the time would be the wrong choice for me (too likely to get obsessive and frightened), so I went to a diet made up entirely of vegetables (except for starchy vegetables), fruits (not many), nuts, and animal products. That was six weeks ago, and I haven't been testing at all. I've lost a little weight, and this morning decided to cheer myself up by taking my fasting blood glucose. I was sure I'd be down to the 80s, and it was 139!

This is higher than I've ever been, even when I was eating tons of carbs. Could it be that I'm making myself worse by eating low carb? Or is it possible that my pancreas is just deteriorating really fast for some reason, in spite of what I'm doing?

That's my really big question, so I'll stop here for now: is it possible that I'm becoming more and more diabetic every day and that my new diet can't keep up with that? I'm feeling really powerless.