Zyprexa Diabetes
Am I a pre-diabetic; sugar level: 123 after 12 hr Fasting; read on please..?
Recently my Dr’s nurse called & informed me of my lab results: sugar: 123 -after no food nor drink for 12-hr. period; she told me: “Your sugar is a little high -so watch your Sugar (intake) I thought she meant; I did not think to ask her IF that meant that I was pre-diabetic or what. I checked my sugar late one afternoon since then & it was: 132; I’d had serving +? soft drink, but previously my sugar stayed around 120 or mostlly 110 & lower, around 95-100 lots of times. I don’t have tester & chek mine, once in a while at my Mom’s, as she is a Diabetic & takes insulin shots twice per day. I take Zyprexa, 2.5 mg. daily, for few yrs. now; am bipolar, & as u probably know: side effects of Zyprexa is often: diabetes and high cholesterol too, i believe and now my cholesterol level is 253; just a few yrs. ago my former Doc said that ” it can’t be any better than my (cholesterol level) was. now i’ve been takin statins approx. one mo. now (generic zocor, 10 mg. daily).thanx!
you are probably not a diabetic yet. The lowest form of type 2 diabetes is call a diet controlled diabetic. If you sugar was still ok after you ate food then you are probably not there yet. However, lets examine the evidence. You have a family history of insulin controlled diabetes, you had a glucose test that was a little high, and your cholesterol is way too high. I would say that you are a pre-diabetic in that aspect that although you don’t have it now your family history and lifestyle choices mean that you will get it in the future. However all is not lost. If you monitor your food intake and stop eating sugar or high progressed simple sugars (like bread rolls and pasta) then you can most assuredly stop this from happening. Also you will be able to control the cholesterol and save your self from a triple bi-pass later. No other way to do it I am afraid. Go luck.
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