Jewels – You will have much better luck with an endocrinologist for questions in the area of glucose and insulin. A problem with the pancreas producing too much insulin cannot be detected by the blood tests you have had. (As the cells become more resistant to insulin, the pancreas will produce more and more insulin in order to FORCE the cells to open up and take in the glucose – thereby driving down the glucose level to a normal level. The cells will become more and more resistant; and the pancreas will pump out more and more insulin until it is completely exhausted and stops producing ANY insulin at all.) Insulin is necessary for fat to be created, but it is not necessarily the fat you can see and pinch; the more dangerous fat is deposited internally around the organs (liver, intestines, kidneys, etc.). It is possible to be quite thin-looking on the outside and have lots of this dangerous fat on the inside.Jewels70 wrote:By the way, i couldnt get my GP to give me the insulin test, he looked at my fasting blood work and said no you dont have a problem with your glucose, you are not over weight and your still young, we dont need that test! He didnt know I had the neuro order the OGTT. ...
The comment about your being young is totally irrelevant. If your GP is older, he was taught that type II diabetes has an adult-onset; doctors now are taught that even young children are developing type II diabetes today. It is lifestyle, not age, that leads to this disease.