Feeling quite scared and very shocked.

I'm sorry you've has this bad news. Is this the only test you've had? I ask because my 91yo mother was also diagnosed with diabetes. She is overweight but had never shown any previous signs. She was very concerned but a follow-up test came back as normal and since then, two or three years ago, she's never had another suspicious test result.

I don't have any experience of pre-diabetes myself but I imagine you will need to see the doctor and discuss it.

Your symptoms drinking, toilet, tiredness and genetics all sound very familiar
But it really isn’t the end of the world a shock yes but it can be so well managed now and there is also so much help from the nHS
My closest friend also slim and full of beans became very unwell two years ago She was hospitalised and diagnosed with Type 2 it’s been a rocky road as it’s been hard to get her stabilised she was up and down although she followed instructions to the letter however two years on she is so much better the Diabetic nurse rings her regularly every few days and titrates the insulin as and when necessary She looks so well is full of life and her figure is even better than before She can eat anything within reason It’s about careful diet not too much of anything She counts carbs not calories
She was very very poorly when first diagnosed it came out of nowhere
Please don’t get too downhearted

Yes it's the only diabetes test. She was testing for everything thyroid, anaemia, kidney liver function etc. Letter gives details of an 8 week course Healthy living for me to go on. Test result says 43 apparently 45+ is diabetic and 20-40 is healthy. So I'm near the border line.

I've had pre-diabetes for years now and up to my annual blood test at the start of this year it had gone down a notch, so nothing has come of it and I don't lose sleep over it either.
It was all down to a glucose tolerance test I had a few years ago in which the result showed an impairment.
I've just continued as normal and haven't changed anything. I'm not overweight but it's genetic in my case.

You do not need to be overweight to have pre-Type 2 diabetes, or full blown type 2 diabetes. I have a friend who has always been wafer thin and he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in his 40s.

Being overweight isn't necessary to be able to get Type 2 or its pre-cursor. It only increases the risk of it happening.

Your symptoms sound like those DH had when he was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. He is overweight, but after three months on the original 5:2 diet, the diabetes went into remission and has remained so, even though he has put back on all the weight he lost on the diet and more, and stopped his exercise regime. . I also lost weight and have not put it back on, so it is not what I feed him. It is all the stuff he eats between and with meals, which I do not prepare.

I really wouldn't want to take the result of just one test as gospel. I'd go back and ask for confirmation via a second test. I wouldn't want to be fobbed off with just details of a group, either.

I'm glad others with more experience are here to help, now.

I have to ring up tomorrow for all the other test results. I'm dreading it incase there's anything else wrong. I actually said to the doctor there's no way I can be diabetic as I'm only 8stone when she said what the test was for. How wrong I was.

I'm actually a bit surprised that you're pre-diabetic (and not real diabetic) when you seem to have some symptoms! I had no symptoms apart from weight loss when I was diagnosed.
Anyway, the advice now is that you follow a low carb diet for reducing blood sugar. Is it worth buying a little monitor to check your levels?
Although most type 2's are overweight, not all are and as it's obviously in your family you will be more likely to develop it.
I would certainly make an appointment with your dr/specialist nurse to find out more and get more advice.

The strangest thing when my test was first done I was half a stone lighter than I am now yet this increase in weight has reduced the marker to 41 from the 44 that it was when first tested.

Anyone can get Type 2, big or small. My sister has Type 2 and she is slim - I'm fine and am much bigger. There are lots of factors, not just your weight. See your diabetes specialist and be guided by their advice - my sis sees the nurse every six months and sticks to a sensible diet and she's fine.

My hba1c test last year was 45. Feeling extremely tired doctor did another one recently it was 44. Last year I was just given a healthy eating printout. No mention of prediabetes. I lost few pounds. I was slightly overweight. Bmi is 22 5.
The thing is I am amazed at the help and information some people have been given. My doctor never discussed it with me.
I think I might make an appointment although as we are two doctors short in our surgery they might say no to an appointment. ( you have to give the reason you want an appointment and then the surgery rings you at home)
Perhaps you will share any further information you get Sazz1.

I was sent on a diabetes prevention course on the strength of one blood sugar reading, my GP knew nothing about it. Admin staff had been putting patients forward.
I went on the course and did not alter my lifestyle in any way and next blood test showed a three point reduction in blood sugar.
In your case I would consider that your tendency to type2 could be heredatry, we have a couple of very thin people on our course and they all have family with type2.

This is a very early stage of identifying possible diabetes, so treat it as something to be followed up, but not at the moment worrying.
There has been so much hype recently about obesity causing lots of conditions - and that can mean that we absorb the message that you have. As others have said, although obesity leads to an increased likelihood of type 2 diabetes, it is by no means the only factor. There may be some genetic tendency in your family.
So, park your worry for the moment, go along, get the tests, listen to the advice and discuss it. Good luck.

Thingamejig if sazzl is definitely diabetic she will be given a monitor, my friends has a very small computerised one which she dropped and broke the other day she was given a replacement within a couple of days The care for diabetics is really very very good on the NHS, well it certainly is in my area I m not sure if it differs county to county
Although it’s a shock there is no need to be so afraid it really isn’t the end of the world there are so much worse things to be told you have sazzle but GOOD LUCK. for today and let’s hope you get good news

Any diagnoses is a shock and sets you back, but wait until you see the consultant and diabetic nurse and they will give you back your confidence to tackle it head on and defeat it.

Get back to us in a few months and you’ll be amazed at the strides you have made.

Good luck, not that you’ll need it. Good science really?

My friend was like this at 63y. She stayed pre diabetic for years and then at the age of 70y was prescribed metformin and takes one tablet a day.

It might be worth looking up diabetes.co.uk and the work of Dr David Unwin all the best.

Thank you so much for all your replies. Will update the thread when I find out more about it. I've told my adult children that it's probably heredetory so they can be aware of symptoms if they arise in the future xx

I was told a few months ago that i was pr diabetic, there is no diabetes in my family as far as i know, definitely not mother or sisters,
The nurse who tested me was doing a routine test as far as i know,she said i was only 2 points over what i should be
I usually weigh about 8-8.5 bu put a bit of weight on last year
I don't drink any more than usual and never feel thirsty, i have sometimes have a nap in an afternoon, but not on purpose just sometimes doze if i am sat for long but i don't
sleep well at night
Don't know fathers history, i am mid 70s and quite active, not on any other meds at all,
My eldest son has diabetes, but his grandmother on his fathers side had it, [different father to my other children]
My Dr has never mentioned it to me,

Care for diabetics might be very good but surely care for prediabetics is just as important to prevent it progressing. Diabetic nurses in our surgery don't see prediabetics. Doesnt make sense.

Media hype would have you believe that type 2 is caused by being overweight. It has a strong genetic component though. My dad has been diagnosed with type 2 despite being slim and active. I'm the opposite and was diagnosed 5 years before him.

Most people recommend a low carb diet but, for me, it caused other problems.

It could be that type 2 diabetes runs in your family. We have this problem in my family as it was in both my maternal grandparents history. I don't think these days that diabetes is the end of the eorld. You have to adjust to it and then learn to live with it. Good luck with it all.

In reply bluebelle type 2 diabetics do not get given monitors unless they are on insulin, which is is the final drug.

I just wanted to add that if you were a little unwell when you had initial the blood test done it may have affected your blood sugar level.