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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2323413" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi there, I was similar to you when I was 55yrs old (I'm 59 now). Slim, fit and all the rest and diagnosed at a routine 'well women' clinic as pre diabetic. They went through all the 'lifestyle' blurb but accepted there was nothing that I could improve on in the 'don't smoke/exercise more/lose weight etc, etc'. In the end they said 'Well watch what you eat'. My diet at that time was pretty healthy (forgetting the carb issue for a moment as I did eat wholegrain/root veg etc). Roll on 3 years and following a chaotic Drs appointment I was rushed to hospital, placed on a drip and diagnosed with the onset of DKA. I came out of hospital on insulin and tests confirmed I was actually type 1, hence this 'pre diabetic' diagnosis was in fact the onset of type 1. The problem is they don't do any tests other than the hb1ac test (often discovered by routine tests and so on) and when that comes back in the pre diabetic category they leave it at that regardless of how you present. 3 years later, even then they kept going on about type 2 but then decided because I presented as thin (by that time), ran 5 times a week and had a sky high hb1ac, they did a C Peptide test and an antibody test, both confirmed type 1. I say this not to alarm you but to bear it in mind, you may not fit the albeit dodgy & misleading 'pre diabetic on your way to type 2' profile (even though you may be) so IF you are finding no matter what you do your numbers are not reducing or are rising then raise it with the Dr. I wish I had and hadn't skipped happily along getting worse and worse for the next 3 years with slowly rising glucose levels, (nobody checked them during those 3 years either incidentally and when I asked why in hospital they said the GP had missed the pre diabetic guidelines of yearly checks). Sorry to ramble but my main point is to keep an eye on it all. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2323413, member: 451727"] Hi there, I was similar to you when I was 55yrs old (I'm 59 now). Slim, fit and all the rest and diagnosed at a routine 'well women' clinic as pre diabetic. They went through all the 'lifestyle' blurb but accepted there was nothing that I could improve on in the 'don't smoke/exercise more/lose weight etc, etc'. In the end they said 'Well watch what you eat'. My diet at that time was pretty healthy (forgetting the carb issue for a moment as I did eat wholegrain/root veg etc). Roll on 3 years and following a chaotic Drs appointment I was rushed to hospital, placed on a drip and diagnosed with the onset of DKA. I came out of hospital on insulin and tests confirmed I was actually type 1, hence this 'pre diabetic' diagnosis was in fact the onset of type 1. The problem is they don't do any tests other than the hb1ac test (often discovered by routine tests and so on) and when that comes back in the pre diabetic category they leave it at that regardless of how you present. 3 years later, even then they kept going on about type 2 but then decided because I presented as thin (by that time), ran 5 times a week and had a sky high hb1ac, they did a C Peptide test and an antibody test, both confirmed type 1. I say this not to alarm you but to bear it in mind, you may not fit the albeit dodgy & misleading 'pre diabetic on your way to type 2' profile (even though you may be) so IF you are finding no matter what you do your numbers are not reducing or are rising then raise it with the Dr. I wish I had and hadn't skipped happily along getting worse and worse for the next 3 years with slowly rising glucose levels, (nobody checked them during those 3 years either incidentally and when I asked why in hospital they said the GP had missed the pre diabetic guidelines of yearly checks). Sorry to ramble but my main point is to keep an eye on it all. x [/QUOTE]
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