New Advice From Dietician

Harpar said:

Well I suppose thats one way to reduce the numbers of people being diagnosed ! ! ! Can't say I agree with that though, to me 48 to 52 (6.5-6.9%) is higher than I would want to be, and certainly high enough to start causing damage, 6.5% was considered as diabetic, when did it change, or have I missed something?

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I have just tried searching for it on the internet. She said the things she was going to show me weren't particularly for patients to look at but for dieticians to have a guide. She said it was new. It was a big laminated piece of card with blocks of green and red on it. At 44 I wasn't in the prediabetes coloured block.

Andrew Colvin said:

Cruel/over the top - I can't comment on that but you have taken control. It is your life and who are we to say yes/no. If you feel comfortable with the way you are eating (and it is healthy) then continue and don't let anyone tell you different

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Sorry to whine Andrew. It just couldn't have come at a worse time. I started to lose weight late February/early March. I felt really ill with muscle/joint pains, such tiredness like I had never known, pain from head to toe, headaches, twitching muscles. I have had similar spells before. After so many of these spells my GP and two other GPs think I have ME/CFS, but I had just started to lose a lot of weight. I was about 9 and a half stones. Dropped to 8 and a half stones very quickly. Then I was told prediabetic. I had to stop all the sandwiches, etc etc, all the things basically that would help me put weight back on. I went on LCHF, and have continued to lose weight since. This is what my GP and dietician are more concerned with.

The dietician today said she felt my GP had worried me unnecessarily and that to do that to somone and then not give any sound advice to go with it had obviously frightened me. She said it would scare most people. She also said that no two prediabetics or no two diabetics can categorically compare as it's a differnet set of factors from person to person.

sally and james said:

The NHS choices web site says,
An HbA1c level of 6.5% (48mmol/mol) or above indicates type 2 diabetes. Although there's no fixed point to indicate when someone has pre-diabetes, a UK expert group has recommended that an HbA1c level of 6-6.4% (42-47 mmol/mol) would indicate that a person has a high risk of developing diabetes.
So no change there.
Sally

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Well in that case she has a completely warped view as given to her from a medical body. My son saw the fugures and I just asked him. He agrees with what I saw.

Andrew Colvin said:

if you want to put on weight then I think that carbs is definately the thing to add to your diet. The question is which carbs. I added a lot of fruit such as dates, apples, figs, satsumas, instead of cake, chocolate, You could try a slice or 2 of bergen bread a day as well.

I think all of those symptoms can come from vit deficiency (B12 and D) but also may just be your body digesting its muscles because you arent having enough protein. Has the doctor tested you for vitamin and mineral levels?

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Yes I am very low in vitamin D but been on a D supplement for the last six months or more. I aksed about vit B12 and was told it was okay. I have been told to increase my proteins quite a bit as she told me there was new proof on that too - being fine for kidney disease and not as bad as they thought. !!!!

I already eat a piece of Burgen most days and I am getting through at least 4 oatcakes a day for snacks.

They have tested me for Coeliac disease this week -awaiting results. God help me if it's that too!