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Further to my earlier post congratulating supergirth.co.uk,, I notice some misinformed individuals saying "we will always be diabetics" In my case I was diagnosed & labelled "type 2 diabetic" using the blunt instrument test of fasting bloods criteria having been breached twice. I immediately set...

Well done supergirthuk, I did the same myself! I was diagnosed myself in 2011 and it was only a chance remark by my doctor earlier this year that led me to question it. He said every hba1c I'd had in 5yrs (10 of them) showed me as not even prediabetic, let alone type 2. When I was diagnosed I...

A twist to this tale. I started to regularly test myself with my original meter an Accu-Chek Compact plus GT after having checked with the helpline at Roche that the unit would still be OK. I put new batteries in and bought new test strips after they said it would be fine. The results I got...

Thank you, I'm certain I'm not!

Thank you to all who responded and on second thoughts I shall do some further blood testing before I throw caution completely to the wind. My meter is an Accu -Chek Compact plus that's now 5 yrs old. Are these still up to it or has technology moved on to something more accurate?

Thank you for the response. I've concluded the folllowing; Random blood testing after my diagnosis would suggest that my reaction to glucose is following a "relatively" normal pattern and my own fasting glucose tests indicated I wasn't in the prediabetic range, but the upper end of normal...

I didn't really think about it too deeply until after I'd left and was chatting about it to my daughter who is a 4th yr trainee doctor. My daughter and her boyfriend who is also just completing a medical degree as well, are both convinced my diagnosis was wrong given my lifestyle, weight, diet...

Thank you. My DN told me today that i couldn't be take off the register, hence my post. I can't be type 2 if I've got an hba1c averaging 38 over the past 5 years, my BMI is over 30, I've not exercised for months and I like beer and sticky buns. It's nonsense

My sincere apologies, I got the units completely wrong as it's a long time since I looked at this in depth. My Hba1C has varied from 37-39 mmol/mol over the past 5 years since my original diagnosis!

Thanks but I don't think that is me!

I've done that after my diagnosis and I concluded then that it was acting in a relatively "normal" manner pre and post prandial but that it does "rest" at a relatively high level. The hba1c's are, as I stated in my initial post, showing a non diabetic level (37-39mmol/mol) over a 5 year period...

Thanks. I was excluded from a job because of it, by the way, I didn't lose one I had already. That would be illegal. My point is that I would appear to have had a predisposition to relatively high fasting glucose for a long time, possibly all my adult life and that test (fasting glucose) has put...

Hi I had a type 2 diagnosis about 5/6 yrs ago when I was 57 yrs old, based upon two fasting glucose readings of 7.0 & 7.1. (See my posts in 2011) Prior to that for several yrs I had been 6.5 ish. I would add that when I was 29 yrs old and a 5ft 8", 11 stone marathon runner, I'd been told after...

Thanks for the response Grazer. If you read through the thread, you will note that I stated some 4 posts or so ago that I was under no illusions that something was going on with my blood sugar levels. My point here is that I appear to have been labelled type 2 diabetic by a nurse who observed...

I still have a virus, although it is subsiding a little now ( I'm on day 4 or 5 of it now) and I think it is safe to confirm that the effect on blood sugar is marked. For a month my morning reading has been 5.5 - 5.8 as an average, whilst the readings over the past few days have been 6.8 to as...

Thanks Doug. Whilst the insurance issue is annoying it isn't what has brassed me off - it is losing a dream job that would have cut my working week by 30 hours and allowed me to retire early. I am under no illusions that I have blood sugar issues but I just think a box has been ticked without...

Thanks Doug. Whilst the insurance issue is annoying it isn't what has brassed me off - it is losing a dream job that would have cut my working week by 30 hours and allowed me to retire early. I am under no illusions that I have blood sugar issues but I just think a box has been ticked without...