To ask for advice about blood sugar, I’m scared

[Pixydust]

Posting here for traffic. I’ve been feeling a bit off and my tummy has been upset for months. I had some blood tests and the doctor has phoned to say my blood sugar is “a bit high” and we need to talk about how to bring it down.

I am shitting myself thinking I must be diabetic. The receptionist said it doesn’t say that on my record, it just says we need to discuss it. I have to wait two weeks for an appointment.

Please can anyone advise? I’m so scared. I know I’m a stone overweight and eat too many biscuits but I’m only 42 and I didn’t expect this.

They said it’s borderline prediabetes and I need to lose weight and stop eating white bread and sugar.

I had a HBA1C test in the early weeks of pregnancy and the result was 34. Now it’s 42. So a big jump. I weigh the same so that’s not the issue. Basically I had no sleep and was constantly exhausted, and breastfeeding made me feel shaky, so I had no time or energy for exercise, and I reached for milky coffee and biscuits to keep myself going. That’s what’s fucked me up. And I have to stop it.

That can actually be from anxiety tension. I don't even have annxiety and ended up having ECG because of chest pains, which turned out to be stress/anxiety tension spasms in chest.
I learned now that if I have tense jaw, I need to do something to relaxso I don't end up with chest pains again

I know you probably can't see this right now, but maybe one day you'll be able to reframe this and see it as being incredibly lucky that this was picked up so early. You don't have diabetes, what you have is most likely to be completely reversible with some fairly small lifestyle changes. If you hadn't had the test now, you might not have learned about this for years and then it would have been a much bigger problem.
I hope you've been able to eat something today.