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Pre-diabetic is as useful a diagnosis as, say, pre-heartattack. It's meanigless. Tens of thousands of people have been worried needlessly by this doomsday diagnosis based on what? Have you actually got any supposed symptoms? Probably not. Please remember and take on board that the...

Quite right - once they've got you by the short and curlies they will not let go. It's like the Hotel California - you can check-in but can never check-out, even if the check-in was dubious in the first place. £3000 a diabetic I read once - no wonder you'll never be free.

I've only read the first page of this thread and your story of your Xmas feasting. My only conclusion, which I believe is also applicable to a sizable percentage of subscribers to this forum, is that there's nothing actually wrong with you. See your doctor and get the 'Diabetic' albatross...

You are right - this whole issue surrounding BG levels is not an exact science and that is why there is so much confusion/ misinformation/speculation - take your pick. What is normal, in any case? Here's an example. A few days ago I persuaded my wife to eat the same as me for lunch and an...

Given that (for we T2s) the albatross called 'Diabetes' hung around our necks is nothing more than a line drawn on a graph, no wonder so much confusion and uncertainty exists around the subject. If you were afflicted by high blood pressure and you went on a diet and course of exercise and your...

What many overlook is that the definitions of diabetes vis a vis the mmol values (and here I refer only to the pre diabetic/Glucose Intolerantolerant group and Type 2s) are based on statistics, probability and decided and interpreted by committee - nothing more, nothing less. The 'Committee'...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn I'm ready for the flak - but the more I read some of these posts the more I am becoming convinced that like many other 'modern day' health issues such as the huge increase in the diagnosis of 'asthma', there is an over-diagnosis of...

Yes, I have, only this morning, officially joined the long and illustrious list of Type 2 diabetics. 2 Fasting blood glucoses 'normal' but the infallible ( :!: ) Hba1c came in at 6.8 two weeks ago and the latest 6.6 - so welcome to the club! To help bust the 'obese/inactive myth': Never...

'There seems to be rather a lot of slim, fit people, who have had an excellent diet for years, that seem to be either diabetic or pre-diabetic, What is going on?' ...........which begs the question: is the label 'diabetic' being hung on too many people? We are talking about (in many cases)...