Interesting Lab Results

I saw my OB/GYN doc a few weeks ago for my annual exam. I actually call it my "open house". Anyway... the doc I went to is absolutely fabulous. This was the first time I had gone to her, but I knew her from mmpc, and the stellar reputation she had, so decided to go to see her. Everything was fine from a gynecological point of view, but as she was taking my history of when I had my hysterectomy, and started asking me questions, she became concerned about the fact that I may be developing adult onset diabetes. This is the one disease that I never wanted to hear I could have. My grandmother had diabetes, my brother has diabetes, and I am an all time carboholic...a big no-no for someone with diabetes. What triggered my doctor's concerns were a few things. When I was 30 I had a hysterectomy with both ovaries removed. My ovaries were removed because of "polycystic Ovaries".... several cysts covering my ovaries. Apparently polycystic ovary disease is related to diabetes. She also noticed a darkening of my skin around my neck, in my arm pits, and few other places, which is also a sign of diabetes. I shared with her my struggle with my weight and the fact that I really do try to eat well, I do go to the gym, and I work really hard, but just do not see the results, get discouraged and just chuck the whole diet thing... and then I will get motivated again, and start this crazy process all over... each time losing and gaining. Her thoughts on the matter were instead of my body turning the food into energy, it was storing it and turning it into fat, something to do with being "insulin resistant". So... she wanted me to have a 2 hour fasting glucose tolerance test. I did the test a few days later, and that was wierd. I had labs drawn, and then had to drink a glass of this really sweet stuff. Since my office is right next to our lab, I just told the lab gals I was going to my office to work. the first 30 minutes or so, I was running all over the place... quite the sugar high, and then I crashed. I decided I had better sit down and behave myself. I then had to have my labs drawn again, two more times. It had been a week or so since my labs, and I have been so busy at work, I kind of forgot about things until yesterday. I had been out of my office most of the day in meetings, so when I was checking my phone messages, there was a message from my doctor. She said, I have your lab results, and they are "interesting". I thought to myself... I don't know if I like interesting. She wanted me to page her when I got in. So I paged her and waited for her call. Basically my fasting blood sugar was normal, but on the high side of normal, my 2 hour blood sugar, while still normal, was 127, and they consider 140 as diabetic. What was interesting was the fact that my insulin resistance level was 23, the normal was 0-17. With my history, and the all the things we talked about at my gyn exam, this points to me being pre-diabetic. Wonderful. That one disease I never wanted to hear I have, is knocking on my door. So now I have to make an appt to see my PCP about what to do about this. A couple good things... I know about this early so I can do something about it, and the fact that she really feels treating this with medication will help me to get my weight off. I know diabetes effects your heart, your eyes, your circulation, and just about every organ in your body, so I definitely want to get things under control now before it becomes full blown diabetes. Guess I should count myself lucky that I had an awesome physician who had the forsight to check this now.