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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dee_UK" data-source="post: 2702379" data-attributes="member: 588879"><p>Yes that sounds familiar. The Diabetes Nurse that I spoke to on the phone couldn't suggest anything other than attending the Diabetes Prevention programme but my Dad went on that for a year and although he did very well (lost 10kg and got his HbA1c out of the pre-diabetic range) I knew they would only tell me to eat sensibly and follow "the plate" which I've already been doing for several years. My Dad cut out cakes, biscuits, pork pies and cheese but I didn't eat any of those to begin with! I've never had a sweet tooth, don't eat between meals and only eat deserts on the rare occasion that we have a meal out. My Husband can't have Cow's milk or fruits (due to high salicylates) so we don't even have deserts in the house. I have an average of 14-20 units of alcohol a week, which I don't consider excessive, but as soon as I said that of course the DN leapt on it and told me that must be where I'm going wrong. It's literally the only "treat" I have in my life (1 glass of Wine with Dinner 5 nights a week and maybe 2 on a Saturday). If everyone that drank that much was diabetic, I think we'd all be diabetic!! It's very frustrating but I agree with you that they just want to put you in a "box" and won't hear that there could be another explanation. In my case, I think something must be causing the extreme discrepancies between the results, but they can't explain it and I think they'd rather I just accepted their results and kept quiet  If my latest set of results are right though, all I've done is give up 1 sugar in tea once a day and that's brought it down from 44 to 37 but I'm sure that can't be right. Edit: typos and emoticons came out wrong!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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