Hi, Cugila,
When I said in the other thread that I haven't been diagnosed as diabetic, I meant exactly that - I haven't been *diagnosed* - because I haven't been to the doctor and asked to be tested. I discovered that my BS numbers were high when my husband was picked up as being 'prediabetic' or possibly early T2 a couple of months ago during some tests for another condition - I had been pushing him for ages to get tested because he had all sorts of symptoms. He was being a baby about testing himself so I did it on me to show him it didn't hurt and found that my numbers were as bad as his, sometimes worse, but only if I ate carby food. He is the same. If we eat low-carb, our numbers are in the normal range, but if we don't, they aren't.
I haven't been to the doctor because the advice my husband got was the 'lose lots of weight and eat lots of carbs and don't self-test' which just made him give up because as soon as he eats carbs the weight piles back on and he spends half his life asleep and either depressed or so bad tempered that his life is miserable. As we have both been eating low-carb on and off (mostly on for me with mostly off recently until this for him) for about 5 years, there was no way I could believe that this was a good thing to do. When we started low-carbing, a lot of health problems disappeared for both of us - looking back, I believe I had BS problems back then too. And low carb is the only way my husband has ever lost weight - unfortunately he went back to a high carb diet and put it back on, but when he was on it it worked brilliantly for him.
We were also in the process of moving, so I thought I would sound out the new doctor rather than battling with the old one, but haven't got round to that yet. I couldn't see the point of getting myself saddled with an official diabetes (or even pre-diabetes) diagnosis when for the moment I can test myself and control it by diet, but I have no doubt that I'm in that spectrum somewhere. If I ate a 'normal diet' my BS would be at 9/10+ after every meal, and I would feel awful and presumably be storing up lots of problems for the future.
There must be millions of people like me, with pre-diabetes or in the early stages of developing T2, who have no idea and won't find out until they have serious symptoms. I just count myself lucky that a) I found out and b) I already knew about the low carb arguments and c) I found this forum.
I hope I'm not posting too much for a newbie, but I think I'm the sort of person that copes with things by finding out as much as I can and making a hobby of them, as someone put it in another thread. My husband is the opposite - he just wants to pretend it isn't happening and uses all the conflicting arguments to give up and say 'Oh, what's the point - how can anyone know what is right'.