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Summary: Before testing for diabetes, it's important to look for symptoms of increased thirst, increased hunger, irritation and dramatic weight loss without exercise. Discover how to use a glucose monitor at home to test for diabetes with help from a licensed RN in this free video on diabetes testing.
Kayti Brosnan has been a licensed RN in the state of Texas since 2003. She has worked in a variety of sub-specialties and roles as a nurse, including CIMC/CPCU, telemetry,...read more
"Hi, my name's Kayti Brosnan. I'm a registered nurse here in Austin, Texas, and today, I'm going to tell you how to test for diabetes. Before you do a test, there's a lot of symptoms that might be occurring in your body: increased thirst, increased hunger, irritation. You might lose a large amount of weight without trying to. Fatigue, moodiness. Those are some of the most common symptoms in a pre-diabetic phase or before you've actually been diagnosed. If you want to test for diabetes, a way that you can do it at home is with a glucose monitor, check your fasting blood sugar, which would be in the morning or before a meal. And if your blood sugar is one-ten or above... I guess, they say one-eleven and above, you're pre-diabetic. If you're one-twenty, one-twenty-five and above, you're actually considered a diabetic, and this is something that you would want to go to a doctor to get further lab work done. You also want to get some cardiac labs drawn to see what your cholesterol and your lipids are. And that's one of the ways that you can test. Another way is during a physical, you can ask your physician to test your blood glucose for you. Or if you're having a visit to the hospital, make sure that you're asking those questions. But you want to be testing through the blood to get the blood glucose, and so one-ten to one-twenty-five-ish is pre-diabetic. One-twenty-five and above -- and this is before a meal or a fasting blood sugar -- is actually indicative of diabetes."
eHow Article: How to Test for Diabetes
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