do i have diabetes? i’m worried and going crazy please, I prefer if you are a RN or working in a medical place?

my blood test for the glucose serum came back to be 102 and that is considered high because apparently according to the lab, it should be between 70-99? i did research online a lot and it varies from that same 70-99 to 70-110 to 80-120, WHAT IS THE REAL BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL is considered that you don’t have diabetes? please answer, thanks…if you work in a lab or hospital or something medical included please add that into your sources, thank you..
i did eat breakfast at 8:30 9am but they took my blood at 1:40pm so is that fasting?

1. No, that is NOT really fasting. Depending on what you ate for breakfast, it could still be in your system 5 hours later. You should fast for at least 6-8 hours to be sure all the food is out of your system. Longer if anything you ate was fried or really high in fat.

2. Seriously, calm down! 102 at any time of day, fasting or not, is not bad enough to worry about. If you were under any kind of stress, including worrying about taking a blood test, the adrenaline in your system could make your blood sugar go up a little. 102 is not high enough to do any damage whatsoever. Or for any sane doctor to diagnose Diabetes.

3. To very technically answer your actual question. For a non-diabetic, your first thing in the morning fasting blood sugar should be between 70-100, your pre-meal blood sugar at any other time of day (assuming at least 3-4 hours between meals) should generally be between 70-110, and your post meal blood sugar (1-2 hours after you eat) can be anywhere from 120-150, but could go higher if it was a particularly large or high-carb meal, but shouldn’t go any higher than 180.

The lab tests assume a first thing in the morning fasting result (even if the test is done at 1:30 in the afternoon) and that is why it flags your result as “out of range”.

4. my only qualifications for answering this question are that I am an anal-retentive diabetic obsessed with scientific data and research, currently with blood sugar control in the range of normal, non-diabetics. Usually. Most of the time.

Hope that helps!

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