Greetings,
I am a 20M, 6'4 and 250 pounds. I had my tests on the 8th of June and my physical on the 27th of June. The doctor warned me briefly about my weight, and also spoke to me about my A1c jump which was 5.2 last year, and with the recent testing, it was at 5.7. He told me that I am in the pre-diabetes stage, and I need to be very careful.
I am a very anxious person and especially when it comes to my health. I was 230 last year, and completely healthy, eating the right food, no soda, no junk food. Within the last year, I went in to severe depression and anxiety which rendered me useless. It was going on for 5 month until I actually came forward and spoke to people about it because I couldn't hide it anymore. This period contributed a lot of my weight gain because I abruptly stopped working out, and I was not watching what I was eating.
As you can tell from my anxious self, the pre-diabetes diagnoses did not fair well with me, and I've been worrying since and constantly searching the web which made me stumble on this wonderful forum. I have a couple of questions hoping you guys could help me.
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On my test results, My BG was 89 and my A1c was at 5.7, and that was with me fasting for 12 hours. Is this a cause for concern?
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What alarmed me the most was the .5 A1c jump in just a year. Does that mean that it is very likely I would become diabetic?
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2 weeks before my testings, I had finals which increases the level of my anxiety to the roof, and I was not eating as well as I wanted to. Could those couple of weeks contributed to the spike?
Thank you for you time. My current GP has been recently assigned to me because my old GP is on leave. He didn't seem too concerned, and he basically told me to eat health and go back down to 230. To put it frankly, I don't trust my new GP which is making the matter even worse in my head.
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