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07-12-2006, 02:20 PM
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I am from Essex in England and have just joined and would like to say hi to you all
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07-12-2006, 02:24 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: West Coast
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| | | Welcom to the forum.
As a pre-diabetic you will benefit a lot by controllind diet and exercise. You don't have to progress to type 2, well, it is not automatic for sure. You have an advance notice that a lot of us did not get, or did not see it coming. Now is the time to really aggressively treat it..... |
07-12-2006, 02:28 PM
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| | | Thanks for your reply.I am very lucky to be knowing my reading and i am trying to take control with it but on times i feel so ill and tired that i sleep a lot and get pins and needles in my hands and feet and feel very sick.Is this part of it as i have a reading on fasting of 8.6
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07-12-2006, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by mandy I am from Essex in England and have just joined and would like ti say hi to you all |
Welcome aboard, Mandy. How did you hear about the forum? |
07-12-2006, 02:32 PM
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| | | Hi there! I was checking out for being pre diabetic and the forum was interesting read as i could not understand why i was feeling so ill.I read a lot of the letters that was there and got a bit more understanding about it
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07-12-2006, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by mandy Hi there! I was checking out for being pre diabetic and the forum was interesting read as i could not understand why i was feeling so ill.I read a lot of the letters that was there and got a bit more understanding about it |
Consider yourself lucky that you have been given some advance notice of diabetes. I had it for years before it was diagnosed, as was my wife (also a pumper, like myself). 'Tis better to be forewarned, yes?  |
07-12-2006, 02:38 PM
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| | | Did you say 8.6? That is not a fasting number pre-diabetics see. You should be <126 fasting. Did you say that? |
07-12-2006, 02:41 PM
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| | | I did say 8.6 i had fasted through the night and then took the test.I am from a family of diabetics.My father had so as my mother and so has my grandfather and other close family
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07-12-2006, 02:54 PM
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| | | hi again.Is there a difference with being 8.6 to 126 as i dont know much about this and i was told i was pre diabetic by my GP.
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07-12-2006, 03:02 PM
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| | | To convert 8.6 to US Standards you multiple by 18.
That would be 137. That falls well into the type 2 range. The standard seems to be >126 fasting on more than one test on different days.
Pre-diabetic would be <7. |
07-12-2006, 04:10 PM
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| | | maybe that is why i have not been well.I have been sleeping a lot and feeling very sick and starting to get headaches.Thankyou very much for explaining to me about the levels.That was very kind of you
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07-12-2006, 05:21 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
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07-12-2006, 06:07 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
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| | | Welcome to the forum, Mandy. Great people and a ton of information here!
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07-12-2006, 06:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
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| | Welcome, Mandy. Glad to have you here.
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07-12-2006, 07:30 PM
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| | | Thankyou for your reply.I am looking forward to chatting to you
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