jack412
Expert
- Messages
- 5,618
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
I understand your concern, fact is he has done you a favour, lets face it you are more aware how to construct a healthy diet nowI know :/ if you think I'm bad on here you should listen how I am with friends! It's a disaster! I'm just annoyed that my gp has told me I'm prediabetes and have me no information or anything on the diagnosis or outcome etc... He didn't even do a proper test which could potentially have diagnosed type 2 instead of just being pre...
With regards to the testing I'm doing he told me to moniter but barely explained what I'm looking for or even didn't show me how to do the testif...
I'm seriously worried and I feel selfish for bothering you all with it
if your before breakfast reading is less than 5.5 you are not prediabetic, between 5.6 and 7 is pre diabetic, over 7 is diabetic.
how you treat this is to lose weight and reduce your carbs and go for a 1/2 hr walk a day, after a month if your fasting/before breakfast isn't below 5.5 I'd cut more carbs or get some metformin to help
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