Is there a difference between "pre-diabetes" and "the early stages of diabetes"?
Here's the history:
Blood sugar and glucose tolerance tests have always been normal, as recent as 3 months ago. Because of weight, lipids, etc., doctors have in the past called me "pre-diabetic," explained as not diabetic, but you likely will be in the future.
Last week a new doctor used a new phrase - instead of saying "pre-diabetes" she said "in the early stages of diabetes," and said I had a blood sugar of 150.
Does this mean I am officially diabetic, or do I still have time to prevent it with dietary changes? I'm freaked out. basically that means you still have time to prevent it with diet and life style changes. didnt you here what the doctor saidand if you didnt understand quetion her why wait then get online and then ask a bunch of strangers you paid the dr For goodness sake take action now because I watched my mother ignore advice and abuse her body with excess food for years and just recently she had to have her leg amputated due to diabetes. Good luck. This is not a death sentence, millions of us live with diabetes. Take control of your diet, and exercise and become educated about the disease. Watch how things other than food influence your sugar levels, and get in tune with your body. Find a local support group, that can help. I learn a lot from a magazine called Diabetes Self- Management, it's really good and uses normal language in its articles. You need to do RIGHT NOW what I should have done two years ago... and that would be this:
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