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Anonymous asked in HealthDiseases & ConditionsDiabetes · 9 years ago

Insulin 30, blood sugar normal.?

A friend told me her insulin level is 30 but her blood sugar is in normal range? I've been researching what "30" could mean but havn't found anything. Also how can insulin be high but not blood sugar?

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  • Jonah
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    People can get their insulin and/or cpeptide levels measured (cpeptide approximates insulin levels) to determine how much insulin they are producing. That is most commonly done when somebody has diabetes and the doctor wants to know if the diabetes is being caused by the person not making much insulin, or by the person's body not using insulin efficiently.

    People with type 1 diabetes generally have very low or nonexistant insulin levels, although some are diagnosed early enough in the disease that they still have low normal levels (which are expected to drop if it's truly type 1).

    People with type 2 diabetes, when they are first diagnosed, usually have above normal insulin levels because their bodies are making as much insulin as they possibly can to counteract the high insulin needs that people with type 2 diabetes have. Usually type 2 diabetes develops after a person has had high insulin levels for many years- either the insulin needs increase past what their pancreas can make (if you have a BMI of 50, there's no way your pancreas will be able to keep up with your body's needs), or the pancreas gets worn out and starts producing less.

    So insulin levels that are high despite normal blood sugar levels indicate that a person is at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, although they do not yet have it. It's a good reason for a lifestyle change if possible, and possibly taking the medication metformin, which seems to delay onset of type 2 diabets by a few years in people who are prediabetic.

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    5 years ago

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  • 9 years ago

    The normal insulin levels are 5-20 mcU/ml during fasting (mcU/ml refers to micro unit per milliLiter). Therefore your friend's level of 30 mcU/ml is higher than normal. This probably indicates that she has a degree of insulin resistance, which means that her body's cells are resistant to the effects of the insulin that her pancreas produces, requiring more insulin than normal to be produced.

    Elevated insulin levels are seen with:

    Acromegaly

    Cushing's syndrome

    Use of drugs such as corticosteroids, levodopa, oral contraceptives

    Fructose or galactose intolerance

    Insulinomas

    Obesity

    Insulin resistance, such as appears in type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome

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