Need to clean sugar out of blood and urine?

Question

i went to my doctor for a pre-physical for the army and my blood sugar was at 170. i didnt fast cause i didnt know i had to so they tell me they found sugar and i could be prediabetic. ive lost weight by cutting back what i ate and started to exercise more to build muscle. i went from 220-187. being diabetic can stop me from joining the army. besides exercising and diet how can i burn the sugar out or is there something i can take to get the sugar out or lower the level. im gonna take the test again a wk from monday at my docs and fast. but if the level is still high i need a way to get the sugar out or at the least lowered to pass the army physical.

Answer 1

Firstly, you are at least prediabetic, and are more than likely diabetic.  If you just ate breakfast before your blood test, you have an off hand chance of being earlier in the prediabetes.

There are a few things you can do.  Firstly, stick to a good, low carb diet and lose weight.  Going from 220 to 187 is a great start.  You'll probably find that your blood sugars are much lower than before.

Don't cheat on the diet.  That ice cream cone that was calling you last night will actually affect your blood sugar for a few days.  The same goes for cookies and snacks.

One little warning.  You can drop your blood sugar by not eating.  You run the risk of having low blood sugar if you do it.  Low blood sugar can be worse than high blood sugar, in that you will feel disoriented, sweaty, hot, and a bit weak and shakey.  After that, you will lose your mental map of the area you are in, appear drunk, and then go unconscious (assuming you don't get sugar along the way).  Another side effect of low blood sugar is that you will be very tired when you finally get over the low blood sugar episode.  You will also have difficulty in decideing to stop eating when your blood sugar gets low.  That can lead to excessively high blood sugar.

Try taking a few hundred mg of thiamine each day.  One problem diabetics have is food cravings.  Thiamine helps your body use the sugar better and will stop these cravings.  If you need to have something sweet at the end of a meal, you probably have a thiamine deficiency.  Thiamine works remarkably quickly to stop the cravings.

Alcohol, in moderation helps too.  A glass of red wine each day will increase your sugar metabolism.  Don't go overboard.  Two isn't better than one, and three most definitely is out.  

Get a glucose monitor, and check your blood sugar at least each morning.  It's a lot easier to get it to drop when you know what it is all the time.  You need to get it to be below 120.

Now, I mentioned that you are most likely diabetic.  In diabetes, the body's ability to handle sugar is for some reason limited.  At this point, you are on track to have full blown diabetes either soon or in several years.  This does not mean that you will be insulin dependent any time soon.  Chances are that you will be able to control it, at least for a while, with diet, exercise, and possibly some medications that boost your insulin sensitivity and make the pancreas make more insulin.  The longer you can control it with diet and exercise, the better off you are.  Delaying the progress is best done at the beginning of diabetes.  Fending it off after you have a full blown case is not easy, and often is impossible.

Answer 2

That was the finger prick test. And it is only a snapshot of that immediate minute. And since you hadn't been fasting, we have no clue what you ate?, it could have been that high and perfectly normal.

Did the doctor do a blood draw for Complete Blood Count and Lipids Panel? I understand they did the urine testing which showed the sugar.

So they will do the blood draw then tell you if it is bad news or not. Don't worry til then.

But if it is bad news, there is nothing you can do about the problem. It exists and will continue to exist.

You could go on a very low carb meal plan and that would clear the sugar content, but in the Army they don't feed people according to their health problems. You would have to go back to regular high carb food plan then and the sugar problem would come back with a vengeance.

Think only of your future health needs. Not your wants at this moment. My bro wanted to stay in the Navy but got sent home with high blood pressure problem. Now they are denying that he had a problem at all then so they don't have to pay for his heart problems as a retired veteran.

Answer 3

I sincerely doubt you will be able to beat the test.  It is most likely that they will check a blood level called a hemoglobin A1C this level gives the MD a number which gives your avg blood sugars over a 6 month period it is often used to determine if a person has been having elevated sugar levels for any length of time.  

Answer 4

it does not work that way, insulin is how the body converts/utilizes glucose in the body. fasting before your test is a good idea, also decrease the amount of simple carbohydrates you eat, white bread, pasta, potatoes, etc. stay away from sugar and continue to exercise. you can't "clean" the sugar out of your blood and urine, if it is not utilized by your body, it will show up there. there are supplements that may help but you also run the risk of producing false negatives on a drug screening (possibly) cinnamon should not make that happen however, so try getting some cinnamon capsules and taking them according to the directions on the label, research/goggle natural treatments for diabetes and see if any supplements are worth taking.

Answer 5

I am sorry to tell you, you are diabetic and there unfortunately is nothing you can do other than medications, diet (low carb) and exercise.