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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krystyna23040" data-source="post: 2170786" data-attributes="member: 374421">My feeling is that someone who is pre-diabetic will not be too broken.  The problem with being recently diagnosed with T2D is knowing how long someone has had undiagnosed T2D.  In my case in the late 1980s the nurse at work sent me to my doctor because a urine sample showed very high glucose.  She said I needed to be urgently checked for diabetes.  My doctor said that she didn't know what she was talking about and that a high level of glucose in urine was not a problem.  Which I unfortunately believed.Then in 2000 I was in severe pain which was diagnosed as gastritis and an ultrasound scan showed a very fatty liver - but again no further investigations or treatment until 2016 when I was admitted to hospital seriously ill with diabetes.  My problem was that apart from weight loss I had no symptoms and I only visited the doctor because I realised I had a resting heart rate of 122 beats per minute.  At the time a hospital doctor said that I shouldn't even have been upright and walking - let alone working 6 days a week.  My Diabetes nurse said that with an hba1c of 125 it was likely that I was T2D for more than 20 years.  So, what I am trying to say in a really roundabout way is that every case is different and someone who is newly diagnosed but hasn't had it very long won't be too broken.  But someone like me is likely to be quite broken.  But it might be quite difficult to tell just how long anyone has had undiagnosed T2D.</blockquote>

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