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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halfpint" data-source="post: 305648" data-attributes="member: 47412">Hi Grazer. I am not yet officially classified as pre-diabetic, or diabetic. I was getting regular blood tests because I've got thousands of anti-bodies which are causing problems with my thyroid. We seem to have got the thyroxine dose about right now though. Anyway, as I had had several strange effects following a relatively normal meal, I talked to my brother about it. He has been diabetic for many many years and I figured that he would be a good starting point. I have also got a sister with diabetes, and two nieces that have had gestational diabetes, so I think that you could safely assume that the family has a slight pre-disposition to it. He suggested that it was a carb thing and my best advice would be to cut down and get the quack to do a Hb1ac test, that came back as 6.3 in Dec 2011. I had another test March 2012, the same reading. The doctor says don't worry about it, its all fine.It was much the same thing for years with the thyroid problem, because I am small, with a very healthy bmi, I get the impression that they are caught up on the 'fat' theme, i.e. you can't be hypo-thyroid 'cos you are not fat, or you can't have diabetes because you are not fat and you do loads of physical work. Its a bit like saying you can't have a heart attack because you are eating healthy food. - Sorry - its in the family.So I have decided to maybe start reducing carbs to see if I can get the blood sugar reading a bit lower. I was drinking loads of fluid, mainly tea - with one sugar, that was something that I changed a year ago. Still drink loads of tea but with one sweetener instead of the sugar. I  view my current situation as kind of knocking on the diabetes door, I do not particularly want to joint the party!However, over the last couple of months I have been experiencing similar feelings, light-headedness, tingling in my arms and legs, woosy, blurred vision etc. much more frequently, normally about 1-2 hours after eating. So, a week ago I cut the carb intake a bit more, not drastically, just a little, and felt much better - until the french bread !Anyway, sent off for a meter etc. and will get advice on when to use the test and what the results show or not as the case may be.</blockquote>

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