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Ray's avatar

my cause was probably trauma and antibiotics.

the reason they add antibiotics to animal feed has nothing to do with keeping the animals healthy and all to do with fattening them up faster. theres your hormone change right there, i look around at the population and see how sick its become :(

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"sick" in so many ways...

I'm still trying to figure out why at around 45 my metabolism changed profoundly. All the experts (docs etc) ascribe it to age - a consequence of not dying young. I can live with that ;-).

My doc raised the "pre-diabetic" flag last visit because of ONE fasting blood sugar number around 100. I pushed back and said "lets do it again" and the next one fell in line with all the previous tests. He never asked "what was different this time". That there is the problem in a nutshell.

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Ray's avatar

ask for an a1c test rather than the fbs test

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TIOK's avatar

I suggested 4 weeks of continuous monitoring to collect some real data.

But since the next FBS was in the "ok fine" range he dropped it.

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