Prediabetes category identified by nhs when?

[HSSS]

As it says, can anyone enlighten me when the nhs started using the classification of prediabetes as opposed to just normal and diabetic?

 

[Mr_Pot]

I have no idea, but people used to talk about "borderline diabetic" which I suppose amounted to the same thing.

 

[HSSS]

Mmm I just found nhs stuff from 2014 using the term prediabetes. And a lot of it.

Just experienced a gp telling my mum, by text, she has the same blood sugar as a couple of years ago - and it is in a “new category” called prediabetes. In other words she should have been told those couple of years ago and this lack of advice is being covered by saying it’s a new category. And she’d had to chase them as a month after testing they hadn’t contacted her.

I’d asked via econsult on her behalf for general and widespread results with numerical values and online access. After the above text I tried again for numerical values and she got a call asking why she wanted to know!! The dr has consented to grant online access and will investigate the “new to me” knowledge that statins can raise bgl

I don’t know why I’m shocked. Exactly the same happened to me at diagnosis when I checked back through old tests online and for far longer than 2 yrs. Not the same surgery. This is my Mum though ..... So cross right now

 

[lucylocket61]

I was diagnosed prediabetic in 2010, and told it was nothing to worry about.

It turned out, I had been prediabetic for several years. I became officially diabetic in 2012

 

[HSSS]

I was diagnosed prediabetic in 2010, and told it was nothing to worry about.

It turned out, I had been prediabetic for several years. I became officially diabetic in 2012

So 10 yrs the term has been around. Hardly a new category. Hardly a new story going by our experiences.

The outrage in me about diabetes recognition and treatment ebbs and flows. Sometimes I’m much more sanguine. Not today.

 

[lucylocket61]

So 10 yrs the term has been around. Hardly a new category. Hardly a new story going by our experiences.

The outrage in me about diabetes recognition and treatment ebbs and flows. Sometimes I’m much more sanguine. Not today.

It gets worse............ I also found out, upon official diagnosis, that I had had gestational diabetes with my son (who is now 26 years old) and nothing was done about it and I was not told at the time.

 

[NicoleC1971]

So 10 yrs the term has been around. Hardly a new category. Hardly a new story going by our experiences.

The outrage in me about diabetes recognition and treatment ebbs and flows. Sometimes I’m much more sanguine. Not today.

i feel for you and your mum and all those who only get told they have an insulin problem 10-15 years from when they actually began becoming insulin resistant. I have no idea why insulin checks aren't done other than the medics are focused on blood sugars rather than the root cause of the problem namely insulin resistance.
Other than a fasting insulin test (trickier and costlier than the hba1c) , there are other clinical indicators.
I assume your mum's doctor still thinks type 2 is 'mild diabetes'!

 

[HSSS]

It gets worse............ I also found out, upon official diagnosis, that I had had gestational diabetes with my son (who is now 26 years old) and nothing was done about it and I was not told at the time.

I found this when I found my old pregnancy notes from first baby - my urine levels were +++ high and unacted on. Who knows what actual levels were. I had 2 9lbers and a 10lber. Every other female in my family has smallish babies. I suspect GD was present.

 

[Bluetit1802]

My on line records showed non-diabetic hypoglycemia when HbA1c was in the prediabetic range, but my GP deleted this and put in remission. (originally he coded me as diabetes resolved, but later changed it to in remission. The lab has anything over 41 as abnormal these days. This has changed quite recently. Previously in was over 48.

EDIT. Typo. Hypoglycemia should have been hyperglycemia!