“I was experiencing absolutely no symptoms,” said Viola Davis when she was first diagnosed with prediabetes reports Prevention Magazine . “None whatsoever. I felt totally healthy and able. Listen, I’m a workout fiend. I’m a really strong woman. I went in for a hormone test, and my doctor took an A1C test.”

 the A1C test takes the average of your blood sugar levels for the past two to three months and is used to diagnosed type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The higher your number, the higher your risk of diabetes. Anything below 5.7 percent is considered a normal A1C level, while anything between 5.7 and 6.4 percent is considered prediabetes. An A1C level of 6.5 percent or higher indicates that you have diabetes.

“My test was a little high. It was 6.0, and it sort of leveled me because I eat right, I work out, my glucose level has always been good. It’s good now, so I didn’t understand it. My understanding of diabetes was that it was something that you control. If you had it, you did something to not control it. I didn’t think that’s not what could happen until I got it, and then I got it and became someone I stigmatized.”

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