Hi!
My name is Dave. I am 37 and I have been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride since April. But thanks to this site and diabetes.co.uk, the ride has become a hell of a lot easier.
Due to my father's home testing kit (type 2 for 8 years) I was able to establish that something was wrong after a large takeaway one night. I took a reading on his glucose meter and it came out 16.6. That started a month and a half of stress of doctors visits, stress over blood pressure and other diabetes side effects. It is amazing how quickly I turned into a major hypocondriac.
Anyway, thanks to my doctors surgery and local hospital it took two and a half months to get to a stage where I could have my glucose tolerance test and thanks to the information I gathered from the net I was able to change my exercise and diet to register a reading of 9.0, which put me in the pre-diabetes group.
However my first H1abc reading in May was 6.6 which today thanks to the new NICE guidelines would of led to my being diagnosed straight away as a type 2.
So I hope I dont offend anybody by joining the forums here as a pre-diabetes case, but I do still consider myself a Type 2 sufferer that was lucky enough to diagnose myself early enough and take action to improve my blood sugar level readings, which are now thankfully back to normal.
As long as I continue to lose weight and exercise more the chances are I can delay this chronic disease from raising it's ugly head.
Have a good day folks and thanks for reading! 🙂
My name is Dave. I am 37 and I have been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride since April. But thanks to this site and diabetes.co.uk, the ride has become a hell of a lot easier.
Due to my father's home testing kit (type 2 for 8 years) I was able to establish that something was wrong after a large takeaway one night. I took a reading on his glucose meter and it came out 16.6. That started a month and a half of stress of doctors visits, stress over blood pressure and other diabetes side effects. It is amazing how quickly I turned into a major hypocondriac.
Anyway, thanks to my doctors surgery and local hospital it took two and a half months to get to a stage where I could have my glucose tolerance test and thanks to the information I gathered from the net I was able to change my exercise and diet to register a reading of 9.0, which put me in the pre-diabetes group.
However my first H1abc reading in May was 6.6 which today thanks to the new NICE guidelines would of led to my being diagnosed straight away as a type 2.
So I hope I dont offend anybody by joining the forums here as a pre-diabetes case, but I do still consider myself a Type 2 sufferer that was lucky enough to diagnose myself early enough and take action to improve my blood sugar level readings, which are now thankfully back to normal.
As long as I continue to lose weight and exercise more the chances are I can delay this chronic disease from raising it's ugly head.
Have a good day folks and thanks for reading! 🙂
