On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:15:46 -0500, "orangetrader"
> wrote:

>The numbers a
>
>LDL Ch = 134
>HDL Ch = 54
>Sugar = 99
>
>I am not sure what is consider borderline or high. Doing some web research
>but a bit confused.

Your HDL is where it should be. Your LDL is a little high, and he should
also tell you specifically what your triglycerides number is, and your
total cholesterol number (which is all of them added up so you can get that
yourself with all three). That blood glucose level is completely normal and
it just looks like a regular BG test, not an A1c result, so here's what you
need to get next:

Fasting blood glucose level (best done first thing when you wake up in the
morning before you've eaten anything)
A1c test (which looks at what your average BG levels are over a three or
four month period, weighted towards the last four weeks)
a new doctor

Seriously, get one who doesn't use vague hints at your health status. They
have specific criteria for what determines if you're diabetic. There are
also specific health indicators in people that can point to the tendancy to
develop diabetes, but there is really no such thing as "borderline
diabetes". That's "old speak". Doctors used to tell people that back when
the medical understanding of diabetes was less advanced. There is the
being at risk for it, and it's certainly a good idea to know what your
risks are (for instance, I have a metabolic condition that put me at risk
for getting diabetes, and have had it for most of my life, without knowing
that, or knowing that I was at risk for diabetes, though all the doctors
insist that I couldn't have avoided getting diabetes part of me still
wonders if I'd KNOWN, could I have staved it OFF for a while longer...)

Anyway, find a doctor that will talk to you in more precise language. YOu
need to know in order to make informed decisions about your health care.
It's YOUR health care, not his.

--
Siobhan Perricone
Humans wrote the bible,
God wrote the rocks
-- Word of God by Kathy Mar