> You may well actually be prediabetic though, it just depends on the specific numbers for A1C/average & peaks combined over time and not the presence of a response itself.
Just to clarify - A1C is itself an easily-measured proxy for diabetes mellitus, but it's itself a heuristic. There are groups for whom it is known that the "standard" A1C range is actually incorrect, because of confounding factors that affect the A1C measurement but are unrelated to the metabolic dysfunction or general sugar levels.
Your point is correct, though, that what OP is describing is consistent with diabetes, and the actual clinical recommendations for prediabetes and Type II diabetes are often the same, at least in the early stages.
Just to clarify - A1C is itself an easily-measured proxy for diabetes mellitus, but it's itself a heuristic. There are groups for whom it is known that the "standard" A1C range is actually incorrect, because of confounding factors that affect the A1C measurement but are unrelated to the metabolic dysfunction or general sugar levels.
Your point is correct, though, that what OP is describing is consistent with diabetes, and the actual clinical recommendations for prediabetes and Type II diabetes are often the same, at least in the early stages.