Prediabetes at 31 and the fright it gave me

Started 24 March 2025 · 15 replies · 163 hearts · read 1.9k times

BirdieMargate, UK · 24 March 2025

1.3 years ago

Prediabetes at 31 and the fright it gave me — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

ZoëHackney, UK

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

BertrandToulouse, FR

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

21me too 1

OttolineEdinburgh, UK

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

MarnieAyr, UK

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

NoahHull, UK

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

MarkCoventry, UK

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

RomyVienna, AT

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

RonanBelfast, NI

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

KezWigan, UK

#10

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

7me too 3

HarriSwansea, UK

#11

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

7me too 2

AshSunderland, UK

#12

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

LarkGalway, IE

#13

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#14

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

PetuaKampala, UG

#15

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.