Pre-diabetes?

I've been diagnosed by my endocrinologist, with "pre-diabetes". this was after I successfully completed the glucose tolerance test. My mom has diabetes. and her brother has it, although he is in denial. Has anyone else heard of this term... pre-diabetes? Does it mean i'm pretty much going to end up being diabetic? does this mean I am border line? I began noticing a problem with hypoglycemia, a few years ago. Also, about 5 or 6 years ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. On certain days, I feel extremely negative about this whole thing. Will I really be able to change my life-style? It is extremely difficult, to "watch what you eat".. especially when i am always on the go. Also, I can feel when my sugar is going down, or changing..I know that feeling..but I seem to find it difficult, lately, so get an appetite, at the right time.

I was given the term "pre diabetic" also. My mom is diabetic and so is my brother, so I'm guessing if it's in the family and you have been told this, then you are going down that road. For a long time I used that "pre" word too, but it's a way of denying the truth to ourselves. Insulin resistant, that's another term used to describe people like us. ANd I believe that's more accurate. It's semantics anyway. I look at is as being on the road to diabetes, unless I watch what I eat NOW. If I were to have continued down the path that I was on, pretty much eating anything I wanted (although my diet has always been a healthy one, just too many carby things)....then a few years down the road, my A1c would have been 7 or more and I would have been already there. As it is, my doc noticed an A1c of 6, and said whoa, we need to get this now. My last two A1c's have been 5.8 and she is OK with this, she calls this the "non diabetic range". The way I stay there is to watch my carb intake when it comes to anything with white flour and sugar. Very little rice and only the brown one. Loads of veggies and lean meats and fish, I make a lot of stir fries. I use the BBQ a lot in the summer, grilled veggies are wonderful. I take a Glucerna drink now and then as a snack. I have no experience with hypoglycemia though, can't help you there. I'm guessing small frequent meals/snacks would be best for that, fruit with cheese, peanut butter on a whole wheat cracker, that sort of thing.

You are a lot younger than me but if you make these changes now, you should do just fine and you'll stave off that disease a long time!