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So why DO the NHS still dish out this dreadful advice? With prediabetes I believe the advice is to follow the 'Eatwell Plate' which is stuffed full of pasta, rice, etc. Then they wonder why there is an obesity crisis and a Diabetes epidemic. Personally I need to get my head around low carbing...

OK thanks, I assume most of the meters work the same way so wonder which is the best one to go for, presumably one with the cheapest strips? I'd really appreciate any advice on this. Where's the best place to buy one too, Amazon or Boots? And how often should I test? Paul, when you say...

They discovered hypertension stage 2 and I'm now on medication for that and under control with Losartan. Now I find that at the same time the A1c was 41 mmol/mol [5.9%], I know this is top end of normal but it wasn't mentioned until I saw it on my notes almost a year later. So the A1c was done...

Hope this isn't too nosy Mud Island, but you state you are on Metformin, were diagnosed in Nov 2013 and in Feb 2014 your A1c was 37 mmol/mol. 37 is a normal, not even prediabetic range isn't it? Obviously that is good but how come you are diagnosed T2? What were your readings in Nov 2013? Was...

Weight Watchers are more interested in selling their crisps etc than helping you to lose weight. They are owned by Heinz and that tells you all you need to know !! I lost weight because of hypertension and took up walking for the same reason and also to keep my arthritis at bay. Now I find I...

I don't think HbA1cs are ever done as a fasting test.

All sorts. Always grapefruit for breakfast then through the day perhaps an orange, an apple, banana, grapes, figs in season, which they aren't of course but last Autumn we had a massive crop of our own. Also plums, raspberries, black currants. You name it - I should have been a monkey...

Thank you Crimsonclient and Yorksman for your help and comments. There is a wealth of choice I see for meters and the SD Codefree does get some rather bad write ups, but as you say it is only relative figures at this stage I think. If I just ignore prediabetes I could be in for a shock at the...

His reason for saying this is because The A1c a year ago was 41mmol/mol, which I only recently discovered. I know this is the top end of normal but it was still a shock and the dr agreed to do it again - it was exactly the same. Over the past year I have lost a lot of weight and altered my...

Thanks all for your input, it's all helpful and enables me to make an informed choice. Lazybones and Squire Fulwood - that advice about diet is all good but when diagnosed with hypertension a year ago I adopted all of that advice and still follow it. No white bread, potatoes, rice etc. that's...

I know I'm being a fussy old f**t and think I can trace it all back to 12 months ago when I had an NHS health check and they found hypertension and made such a to-do about it. Quite right probably but it did turn me from being totally nonconchalent abut my health into someone who sees problems...

My A1c is 41mmol/mol which is the same as it was 12 months ago. Having ascertained from another dr in the practice that this is prediabetes - principally because I had adopted a more healthy lifestyle in the 12 monthsand that should have reduced it - he merely said to return in a further 12...

Have to say that I started exercising last Easter, just walking but at a fairly fast pace. I'd always been very active but walking seriously was new to me. I did it chiefly to try and stabilise high blood pressure and also to keep arthritis in the knee at bay. I have to say have never felt...

Hi rossmcd87. I've found your thread really interesting as I am in exactly the same boat except that I'm a lot older than you, 71 actually! I'd recently noticed that a year ago my HbA1c was 41 or 5.9% and my dr said to have it re-done. In the past yr have lost 17 kilos and have a BMI of 19. On...

Thank you Annie for that link. I will ask the drs advice tomorrow and see what she says. As for the other dr's comment that they only give dietary advice for prediabetes: although I've lost a lot of weight, healthily I think, and exercised a lot, it made no difference to the A1c but then I...

I discovered this after gaining my medical notes online and was upset as it was taken 12 months ago at a health check and was never mentioned. They had found hypertension and borderline high cholesterol and focused on that. My dr said to have it done again and the result was the same. He says...

Just turned this thread up and haven't had such a good laugh on this subject in years. Thanks guys !!!

My dr says Hba1c of 48 is diabetic - maybe he has it wrong?

I umderstand an HbA1c result of 6.5 mmol/mol is a diagnosis of T2 and once you reach that point there is no going back: it affects insurance and all sorts of other things and you are permanently on the register at the GP. I had a result of 5.9 a year ago and made many lifestyle changes including...

I got my results last week and the HbA1c was exactly the same as 12 months earlier. 41 mmol/mol or 5.9%. The cut off point for pre diabetes is 42 mmol/mol or 6% and the doc says that I have pre diabetes and had I not lost weight and made life style changes they would have risen. That he says is...