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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1599031" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Depends how you use words!</p><p></p><p>Here in America, "pre-diabetes" is when you are diagnosed with an HbA1C level of between 5.7% (39) and 6.4% (46 or 47). Actual T2 diabetes is a level of 6.5% (48) or higher. Are you diabetic, or pre-diabetic? (Your avatar shows you as T2, implying that you are diabetic.)</p><p></p><p>As I understand it, if you have been diagnosed with T2 diabetes, you can never become "pre-diabetic" later. What you may be able to do, however, is to reduce your blood sugar levels down to the pre-diabetic range and even, to the non-diabetic range.</p><p></p><p>There are all sorts of methods to achieve this. Some of us can do it with diet alone, others with diet plus drugs, and some of us must use insulin. Some of us start out diagnosed as pre-diabetic, then become diabetic. Some of us can manage for many years with diet or drugs in a stable situation, while for some of us, the condition gets worse over time.</p><p></p><p>(Finally remember that I am not a doctor, and probably 99.9 percent of the posters on this forum are not doctors either. What I have written above is just what I learned in the past nine months and some of it may be wrong.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1599031, member: 438800"] Depends how you use words! Here in America, "pre-diabetes" is when you are diagnosed with an HbA1C level of between 5.7% (39) and 6.4% (46 or 47). Actual T2 diabetes is a level of 6.5% (48) or higher. Are you diabetic, or pre-diabetic? (Your avatar shows you as T2, implying that you are diabetic.) As I understand it, if you have been diagnosed with T2 diabetes, you can never become "pre-diabetic" later. What you may be able to do, however, is to reduce your blood sugar levels down to the pre-diabetic range and even, to the non-diabetic range. There are all sorts of methods to achieve this. Some of us can do it with diet alone, others with diet plus drugs, and some of us must use insulin. Some of us start out diagnosed as pre-diabetic, then become diabetic. Some of us can manage for many years with diet or drugs in a stable situation, while for some of us, the condition gets worse over time. (Finally remember that I am not a doctor, and probably 99.9 percent of the posters on this forum are not doctors either. What I have written above is just what I learned in the past nine months and some of it may be wrong.) [/QUOTE]
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