PCOS Messages for March, 2000: Re: BELLE Me Again Regarding my IR LEVELS...Still Confused?

Re: BELLE Me Again Regarding my IR LEVELS...Still Confused?

From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:47:02 -0600 (CST)

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****I am going to mix my answer in with your post so the whole answer will not be all together.

>Can you explain how to calculate the ratio again? I'm still very
>confused!
>
>Also, I read somewher that in order to calculate the levels you use the
>follwing equation
>1.5xyour age>
>In my case that would be 1.5x27@.5
>So from what I read, if my levels are under that I'm normal and they
>are....have you heard of that?

****I have only heard of that in a post somewhere. I have never seen that used in any of the hospitals or drs offices where I have worked. We only used the raw number. I called an associate today just to see if they had heard of this and we are both of the opinion that you should use the original number as it is. The ratio is a regular math ratio. If I had the numbers 40 and 20 and I had to do a ratio 40:20, you would divide the 1st number by the 2nd number. Your ratio would be 2:1. >
>Also read were the following levels were normal
>Fasting<14, 1Hr.<80, 2Hr.<60...what do you think about these?

****Are these glucose or insulin? Normally, we expect to see glucose <120 for fasting, peak at 160 - 180 mg/dl between 30 minutes to 1 hour after the glucose administration then a return to fasting levels. For insulin, we expect to see ranges from undetectable to 5 to 25 uU/ml throughout. Some labs have a level of 30 for their high range. (As always the values need to be read based on the normal values for your particular lab.)

I am sorry I was confusing before.

-- I hope this helps,

Belle

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