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Bitter gourd or bitter melon or Kerala juice effect on diabetes, My personal experience

Before going in detail I would like to mention that I am diabetic, my father was a diabetic and my mother too is. My initial diagnosis started with a simple blood glucose fasting test which read as 445 mg/dL. A fasting blood sugar level of 99 mg/dL or lower is normal, 100 to 125 mg/dL indicates you have prediabetes, and 126 mg/dL or higher indicates you have diabetes. My Glucosylated haemoglobin (hemoglobin A1C or HbA1c) was at 14 %.  It is  a simple blood test that measures your average blood sugar levels over the past 3 months. Below 5.7%  is normal. 5.7% to 6.4% is diagnosed as prediabetes. 6.5% or higher on two separate tests indicates diabetes. My hyperopia vision (difficulty in focussing near objects) got blurred and could not read between the lines. Now  What is diabetes? Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to simply as diabetes, is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar. The job of hormone insulin is to convert extra  sugar (glucose) from the blood into your ce