Prediabetic among other things!

[Xela]

Hi,

It was discovered that I am prediabetic after a blood test.

I already eat well and am slender, so not many changes I can make but there are always new things to be learned 🙂

Xela

 

[s'nic]

Hi, welcome to the forum.
Mine was found after a blood test too, I've found the forum to be very helpful

 

[Xela]

Sympathise with tinnitus. I get whistling, tuning fork and pulsatile etc - it changes a lot!

 

[Leadinglights]

Hi,

It was discovered that I am prediabetic after a blood test.

I already eat well and am slender, so not many changes I can make but there are always new things to be learned 🙂

Xela

Welcome to the forum
For many a diagnosis comes as a surprise because they feel they have a healthy diet but what may be healthy for someone who is not diabetic is not so when the body struggles to cope with carbohydrates. The modern diet is packed with high carb foods, potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, breakfast cereals where even the wholemeal/brown versions are just as high carb as the white, in some people they convert to glucose more slowly so may be slightly better. Fruit is regarded as healthy but sadly most fruits are high in carbohydrates. Many people think it is just sugar but all carbohydrates convert to glucose so need to be treated with caution.
As you are only prediabetic then some modest changes will probably be sufficient depending on how close to the top of the range you are, 42-47mmol/mol is prediabetic.
This link may help you with some understanding of the condition and what dietary changes would be a good plan. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/

 

[s'nic]

Sympathise with tinnitus. I get whistling, tuning fork and pulsatile etc - it changes a lot!

The constant pulsatile is only in my right ear, that ear also get frequent warbling, and I've also noticed a constant whine. The left ear has now started to make a warbling noise.
For something that's used to listen, ears can be darned noisy!

 

[Docb]

And welcome from me @Xela. Also welcome to that select group of people with glucose auto control problems who do not fit the media stereotype for someone with something other than T1 diabetes. There are more of us about than you might imagine.

Your diagnosis will be based on a HbA1c value from a blood test. Do you know what that was? If you do not, then it is worth asking your surgery for it because it tells you where you are on the "diabetes" scale and the sort of things you might do to stop it getting higher.

Sympathise with the tinnitus sufferers. I have had it for years and it is getting worse. As far as I can see it is just one of those things you have got to live with!

 

[Maz2]

As leadinglights has said it is the foods we don't realise are high in carbs. I went pre diabetic a few years back and, via this very helpful Forum, I found out that the breakfast cereal and toast, sandwiches, potatoes, pasta and rice i was eating was an absolute disaster.

 

[Xela]

Welcome to the forum
For many a diagnosis comes as a surprise because they feel they have a healthy diet but what may be healthy for someone who is not diabetic is not so when the body struggles to cope with carbohydrates. The modern diet is packed with high carb foods, potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, breakfast cereals where even the wholemeal/brown versions are just as high carb as the white, in some people they convert to glucose more slowly so may be slightly better. Fruit is regarded as healthy but sadly most fruits are high in carbohydrates. Many people think it is just sugar but all carbohydrates convert to glucose so need to be treated with caution.
As you are only prediabetic then some modest changes will probably be sufficient depending on how close to the top of the range you are, 42-47mmol/mol is prediabetic.
This link may help you with some understanding of the condition and what dietary changes would be a good plan. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/

Thank you for the link

 

[Xela]

And welcome from me @Xela. Also welcome to that select group of people with glucose auto control problems who do not fit the media stereotype for someone with something other than T1 diabetes. There are more of us about than you might imagine.

Your diagnosis will be based on a HbA1c value from a blood test. Do you know what that was? If you do not, then it is worth asking your surgery for it because it tells you where you are on the "diabetes" scale and the sort of things you might do to stop it getting higher.

Sympathise with the tinnitus sufferers. I have had it for years and it is getting worse. As far as I can see it is just one of those things you have got to live with!

Thank you. I will find out.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum

Hope you find it a helpful and encouraging source of information and support 🙂