My annual glucose tests for the last 15 years have fluctuated between a low of 76 mg/Dl (i was on a very low carb diet) to a high of 137 and it's currently at 121. I have questions.
How accurate is this test when it's done once per year? I see many of you posting about fluctuations in readings and it makes me wonder that, even though I'm fasting for the test, is it really a true value?
I'm a 69YO male in otherwise good health. Am I at a point where I start compromising my quality of life by significantly changing my diet (I love to cook and eat) or at this point, with zero symptoms, can I keep on keepin' on until some actual symptoms of the disease start to show up....short of having foot/toe amputations?
Are there any relatively easy/cheap ways of measuring my own status in between annual testing?
My problem is, that I've lost faith in the medical community and Pharma. I spent 30 years as a hospital exec, and am of the belief that Pharma manipulated the research that causes the AMA to accept 'studies' that continually lowered various testing parameters in order to increase pharmaceutical solutions to bring a patients values within tighter and tighter ranges.
Additionally, COVID illustrated how blindly the AMA accepted bad data, and instead of pushing back, they just went along. Again, Pharma made billions of dollars selling vaccines of questionable value, and still do to this day.
The above are strictly my opinions, and I don't want to debate them, I just post them to understand why I'm questioning how to deal with my newly defined status as Type 2 diabetes.
Anyway, thanks for reading.