Prediabetes
Prediabetes is information, not a verdict
The word sounds like nothing much. It is not nothing, and it is not a sentence either. Here is what the number means.
Practical reading, written by the care team.
Nutrition
Fibre is the least interesting thing that works
Nobody gets excited about fibre. It still does more for your numbers, week after week, than most of what does get people excited.
More from the care team
Daily life
Alcohol, and the low that arrives at three in the morning
The drink is not the whole story. What alcohol does to your blood sugar often happens hours later, while you are asleep.
Monitoring
Your first weeks with a glucose sensor: reading the graph
What the line is actually measuring, why it disagrees with your meter, and which parts to ignore.
Daily life
Being sick with diabetes: what changes, and what does not
A stomach bug is not the moment to work out your plan. Get it before you need it.
Blood pressure
What a hard month does to your blood pressure, and what it does not
Stress moves a reading. Whether it moves your diagnosis is a different question.
Nutrition
One pot, two plates
You should not have to cook two suppers. Cook one, and let the plate do the work.
Medication
When a prescription costs more than you have
Skipping doses quietly is the most expensive way to save money. Here is what to say instead, and to whom.
Daily life
When your week has no schedule, your body still keeps one
Rotating shifts make meals and medication timing genuinely hard. Here is what to hold steady and what to let go.
Lab results
Your A1C is a three month average, not a report card
What the number actually measures, why it lags what you did last week, and what it cannot see.