what meter and what numbers are you getting?  Without information that
the doctor is incompetent, I'd go with the doctor's assessment. <g>
Repeat the test as he asked you to do.

dave

While glucometers are great tools, they are not going to be as accurate
as the test done in a regular laboratory.  However, because a fluke can
occur under any circumstance, your doctor is wise to double-check the
result.

Also, I might add that while many physicians still rely on the FBG to
diagnose diabetes, many of us here have found that our FBG's are
normal, but our post-prandial BS are out of line, sometimes way out of
line.  You may not want to rely on FBG as a primary indicator that
everything is fine.

Michelle

Ask your doctor for numbers, instead of just "higher"... find out what
your test results were.

And then go back and get another fasting test like he suggests.
What's the harm?

Jennifer

systemswamper wrote in message
<1141924734.334266.244330@j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>...

    Non-diabetics spend most of their day between 80 and 90 mg/dL.    One
would expect a non-diabetic to show less than 90 before eating and less than
100 at 2 hours after the meal.    Is that  what you meant by "within
before-meal and after-meal ranges?"

Home meters can be inaccurate.   We have had posters complain about wildly
inconsistent readings when comparing meters head-to-head which means that at
least one of the meters was off.

Many of us bring our meters with us when we go in to the lab for formal FbG
tests so that we can compare our meter readings with the lab test.     My
meters have always been within 10 mg/dL of the lab number.

Regards
 Old Al