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Hi, I have just had my 6-month review last week. I always panic over this but this time I have access to my medical records on myGP, I stupidly had a look at my appointments just now and have seen that the test results were sent to my doctor and all it said under that bit was 'blood...

Hi, so on in early April 2021 I was diagnosed with Diabetes. I came on here in a panic and wrote this thread: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/just-diagnosed-and-devastated.181102/#post-2389139 - Since the day I was told I had diabetes I haven't touched any chocolate, cakes, sweets...

Thank you, and for saying 58 isn't too high, I was mortified when she told me. I am going to look on here at what blood glucose monitors are best and cheapest as money is an issue right now. I'm due to pick up my blood pressure medication this afternoon, I'm guessing that if I'm not on...

I just hate waking up at the moment, it hits me again the moment I wake up. And I'm none stop reading online, and it's scary, I don't want complications, I don't want anything bad to happen or to have a shorter life. I'm scared to eat anything right now for fear of doing something wrong. I'm...

Thank you for that it's encouraging, I really hope that I can recover from it and get back to normal levels. I was told that below 41 is normal, the nurse said to aim for 48 but I want it to be normal.

Thank you for that and the advice. I just wish I hadn't needed it to get to this, I wish it was just pre-diabetes even, I wish I didn't have to think about all this. I don't drink enough water I know that which I need to. I hope that you get your levels back to where you want them again. Just...

Thank you for your reply. I hate waking up right now, I just want to cry all the time, life wasn't great before but now this on top is just another thing to stress and be down about. And thank you for those links I will read them in a moment.

Thank you for that. I'm just really scared to have it and know the things that can happen and reading onlineis so scary as well, I don't want complications, I don't want to die early. The exercise as well is hard for me right now, I'm just so exhausted and depressed, I will try and start that...

Thank you. I've basically stopped eating all sugar, drinking no fizzy drinks now, and cut down on carbs as well, it's so hard to do when I've eaten a certain way forever, but I really want my levels to be normal. The first nurse said they don't normally diagnose diabetes on blood test without...

Thank you for your reply as well. I really hope things will get better because right now they seem so bad. I have just read your story and going from 116 to 39 is amazing, and I really hope that you continue doing so well which I'm sure that you will. I just find the thought of keto really hard...

I think that I'm so scared about this because I worked in an end of life nursing home with a lot of unstable diabetics as well so I know the effects and I can't stop being scared of that. Plus reading so much online it's all fueling the fear as well. I'm trying to do the low carb diet too not...

Thank you. It's just such a huge shock and isn't something that I ever wanted to hear either. I'm having a hard time dealing with it right now, but I will stick around here thank you.

Hi, I had a blood test on the 11th March that came back with my levels at 58, they wanted a repeat blood test two weeks later that also came back at 58 (how they explained it to me was that the sugar sticks and it's a snap shot of the past 3 months so if my blood tests were that close together...