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My local health care team has just signed me up to the NHS Preventing Type 2 Diabetes service. Jolly nice of them. I had a high HbA1c in November 2022. I couldn’t get any response from the local team at that time, so followed advice from these forums and my own medical knowledge to address the...

I know that you can’t cure insulin resistance, but I’m feeling smug today because in a year, I’ve reduced my HbA1c from 46 (end October 22) to 37 (this week). I’ve done all the big stuff - lost a lot of weight and maintained the loss, made permanent changes to my diet, increased regular...

I keep my blood glucose under control normally by eating a moderately low carb diet. Pre-meal measurement in the evening is usually 4.3-4.5, 2 hrs post-start of meal around 6.5. If I have a normal amount or carbs (portion of spaghetti, bread, rice), it spikes to around 10 - hence low-ish carbs...

The endocrinologist has suggested my family history and non-standard presentation suggest I may have monogenic diabetes (MODY). Is there a forum section for this? I’ve looked and can’t find one.

I’m prediabetic, 63 years old, bmi 22.8, doing moderate exercise. I control my blood sugar well by eating a low carb diet, so my most recent HbA1c had fallen from 46 to just within the normal range at 41. I do fasting, pre and 2hr post meal BS checks and keep an accurate food diary. If I eat...

I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes last year. I did all the right things, lost a lot of weight, and dragged my HbA1c down to just within the normal range. Doc is pleased, says I’ve ‘reversed’ diabetes so I no longer have a problem. It seems to me that there’s some woolly thinking going on...

My mum and at least three of her siblings had late onset autoimmune diabetes. Back then they were told it was ‘type one and a half’. I have now been diagnosed with pre-diabetes and even after substantial weight loss (bmi now 26) and five months of a low carb diet, my fasting blood glucose is...