Blood Sugar Levels Normal

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My wife Tess (her blog is “tesslist” at 360.yahoo.com and her book is at www.cafepress.com slash “tesslist”) is disabled with migraines, and often the meds don’t help. That’s when our papillon dogs hilde (the one on her chest) and Killian come as angels with four legs instead of two wings If you want to leave a comment, go to her blog- due to the glut of smut comments I no longer allow comments

A few months ago, I was diagnosed as a diabetic following a series of blood tests (in which my blood sugar count was consistently more than 13 mmol/L.

I was started on medication (Metformin, 500mg, twice a day). Based on a hunch, I got myself one of those blood sugar measuring devices, stopped taking the medication for a couple of days and started taking my own readings.

This revealed my fasting (of 12 hours) blood sugar to be 5.6 mmol/L, two hours after breakfast to be 6.7 mmol/L, two hours after lunch to be 6.5 mmol/L and 6.9mmol/L after dinner and before bedtime. If I’m to believe what I’ve been reading, this is a normal blood sugar level of a person without diabetes.

I’ve stopped taking medication for over a week now and have been monitoring my blood sugar level, and it’s been around the figures I’ve mentioned above when taken randomly as well. Should I stop taking medications and go on with my life? Could I have been misdiagnosed?

My husband monitors his glucose and on a whim I tested my 8 yr old daughter’s when she had poked her finger and it bled. She tested at a 488. I tested it an hour later and she was a 142. Is it normal for kids to have such high levels? Is this something that is an immediate concern, or something to make an appointment and get on the Dr’s schedule for 2 weeks from now?