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- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
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- I do not have diabetes
Several months ago I started getting worse symptoms of pins and needles in my feet ( I have been getting these for about a year ) , burning and pain in them when starting to walk and also period of numbness. I was also getting tired in the afternoon, nodding off sometimes when I was working on my laptop. This would often happen if I had just had something to eat. I thought about pre diabetes as I had seen things in the press, so I bought a testing kit. Since june , I have been testing in the morning when I get up, before I have my regular coffee and toast, on a fairly regular basis and the scores have been coming in between 5.9 and 6.4 mmol/l.
I went to my GP and she got blood tests done, including a HB1Ac, and when I rang back for the results I was told they were all 'normal'. She never mentioned Diabetes when I went to see her and when I called in for the results there was no mention.
I have private health insurance and because I have had prostate cancer and had surgery just over a year ago ( I am 54 years old) , I went and saw a neurologist - I had seen one last year post cancer surgery over my neck and he said to just book an apt if I had to see him again. He wanted to investigate the pins and needs and therefore had an Nerve Conduction Study done on my arms, legs and feet by a specialist neuro at another hospital. The specialist has said that everything is working within normal boundaries. He said often people report pins/needs/burning in feet and it cant be explained. He did ask me if I suffered from diabetes and I said no. I have had an mri of both Thoracic and Lumbar spine and waiting for those results.
So the question I have here, is would my GP have told me if I was in the Pre Diabetic range on those blood tests? Should I go back and ask for the actual figures?
Am seeing the consultant neurologist on 12 Aug , should I ask him to ask the GP to double check for pre -diabetes? When I put my details into the online calculators they come up with a BMI of 33.9 and a Diabetes Risk Score: 30, and the recommendations are that I should go and see my GP to be check for Diabetes. But it seems the GP isn't concerned, else she would have said something.
Thoughts anyone?
Eddie
I went to my GP and she got blood tests done, including a HB1Ac, and when I rang back for the results I was told they were all 'normal'. She never mentioned Diabetes when I went to see her and when I called in for the results there was no mention.
I have private health insurance and because I have had prostate cancer and had surgery just over a year ago ( I am 54 years old) , I went and saw a neurologist - I had seen one last year post cancer surgery over my neck and he said to just book an apt if I had to see him again. He wanted to investigate the pins and needs and therefore had an Nerve Conduction Study done on my arms, legs and feet by a specialist neuro at another hospital. The specialist has said that everything is working within normal boundaries. He said often people report pins/needs/burning in feet and it cant be explained. He did ask me if I suffered from diabetes and I said no. I have had an mri of both Thoracic and Lumbar spine and waiting for those results.
So the question I have here, is would my GP have told me if I was in the Pre Diabetic range on those blood tests? Should I go back and ask for the actual figures?
Am seeing the consultant neurologist on 12 Aug , should I ask him to ask the GP to double check for pre -diabetes? When I put my details into the online calculators they come up with a BMI of 33.9 and a Diabetes Risk Score: 30, and the recommendations are that I should go and see my GP to be check for Diabetes. But it seems the GP isn't concerned, else she would have said something.
Thoughts anyone?
Eddie