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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllisB" data-source="post: 407219" data-attributes="member: 66472">Gwilo, those figures are below mine at diagnosis, you will have had two samples taken at the start of the OGTT, the second one was for your HbA1c, a crude measure of your BG control over the last 3 months.  Do you know what that reading was?  Assuming it is below 50 or thereabouts, diet and lifestyle changes may be all you need.Take a look at : <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/reversing-diabetes.html" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.co.uk/reversing-diabetes.html</a>Increasing exercise, losing any extra pounds, watching what carbs you eat and tempering them with low GI foods in a balanced diet may be all it takes.As for life insurance, any existing policy should not be affected - it will have been under-written to take into account your statistical risk of developing various medical conditions when you took it out.As for car insurance, there was a change in the law earlier this year (<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/6/contents" target="_blank">The Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012</a>, <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/6/section/2" target="_blank">section 2</a>).  Your cover is now only affected if you fail to answer a direct question accurately on application or renewal.  If they don't ask you "a clear and specific question" about diabetes, they cannot refuse a claim if you have it!One caveat on the subject of what I said about car insurance.  No law can be truly understood until it has been interpreted by the courts.</blockquote>

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