Bit freaked out by symptoms

Benjob

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So from being quite sporty 30 something and running around with my kids everyday. I now have severly blurry vision, dry mouth, toilet every 30 minutes, itchy groin, muscle cramps and lethargy. It's bloody awful.

I looked up my symptoms and it comes up with diabetes. So i saw my GP... then another GP and was told to get some cream and see the optician. So now I am sitting in my office feeling like **** waiting for glasses.

So what do I do? I haven't had any tests. Do i go to boots, do they have a test for diabetes? I just want to get some help.
 
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Yes, that would be the easiest and would indicate
Have high carb/sugar 75g an hour or two before the test
 
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Lloyds Pharmacy do walk-in tests as well.
Think plenty of local independent ones do as well.
Probably best to get it checked.
 
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You can have a finger prick blood test at most pharmacies. I would get it checked. Not sure why Jack said to have the high carb/sugar beforehand though. I would have thought it best to go to the pharmacy after fasting for at least 8 hours.
 
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Personally I would go back to your Dr's again and tell them you are still presenting with these symptoms and demand that they test you for diabetes, it's not to say that it is diabetes that are causing your symptoms but they should at least rule it out.
 
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Bluetit1802 said:
You can have a finger prick blood test at most pharmacies. I would get it checked. Not sure why Jack said to have the high carb/sugar beforehand though. I would have thought it best to go to the pharmacy after fasting for at least 8 hours.
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To ensure a positve test maybe?
 
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Hi. The symptoms could well be those of diabetes. I had male candida a short while before diagnosis which is quite a common symptom and the local GP just gave me anti-fungal cream not spotting that this is a very common symptom of diabetes and hence didn't do any tests. Yes, get a pharmacy to do the random test and then back to the GP if needed.
 
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Bluetit1802 said:
You can have a finger prick blood test at most pharmacies. I would get it checked. Not sure why Jack said to have the high carb/sugar beforehand though. I would have thought it best to go to the pharmacy after fasting for at least 8 hours.
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Without breakfast is good too, if they are open before work to see if it's over 7
Or 2 hr after a carby meal to see if it'd over 11
 
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If the GP is still being silly then try to find a Lloyds pharmacy or similar who will do a test.
 
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Go to out of hours dr or A&E if you aren't cumfortable going back to your dr or if you have to wait a week.
 
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Well, I know what I would do:

  • I would make a new appointment with the doctor, and go in ready to insist on a blood test.
  • Then I would ring around my local pharmacies until I found one that would do a finger prick blood glucose test, then go and take it (ASAP)
  • If I couldn't find one, I would go into Boots and buy a cheap blood glucose monitor for about £10-15 They usually come with enough test strips for 10 tests.
  • I would NOT eat anything sugary or carby before going (someone with potentially high blood glucose shouldn't be pushing it higher out of curiosity, and in uncontrolled circumstances) and I think it was an irresponsible suggestion
  • Once I had the results of my finger prick test, I would be researching online what is normal, and how my result compares.
  • I don't think I would make any major changes to diet until I had some concrete blood test results, so that those results represent my real life and diet choices.

And, even if my blood tests turned out normal, I would be badgering my doctor for a proper investigation, not a brush off. Because something is causing your symptoms...

Good luck - and keep us informed?
 
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Bluetit1802 said:
You can have a finger prick blood test at most pharmacies. I would get it checked. Not sure why Jack said to have the high carb/sugar beforehand though. I would have thought it best to go to the pharmacy after fasting for at least 8 hours.
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Non diabetics blood sugars return to normal very quickly. Eating a sweet food two hours before a finger prick test would indicate if his body had produced enough insulin to deal with the carbohydrate. As I understand it would be similar to the tests pregnant women have, commonly known as the lucozade test. Test B/M's, drink lucozade, another B/M after two hours. This is used for Pregestational diabetes as standard.
 
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What Brunneria said...that's good advice. If your gp wont play ball buy a monitor...only a few pounds. Let us know how you get on x
 
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Hi could someone please help , Ok so my father , nan , uncle were all diabetic and so there was always a chance of me getting it and let's just say this past six months I have had water infections with no reasonable explanations night time waking up with the driest mouth and weeping well me and the toilet might as well get married for how long I am sitting on it but 17 times in the space of an hour no fluids and still waking two to three times in the night then today did a sugar test and it was 8.5 do I have anything to worry about or am I just being paranoid please help x x
 
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Samgillard said:
Hi could someone please help , Ok so my father , nan , uncle were all diabetic and so there was always a chance of me getting it and let's just say this past six months I have had water infections with no reasonable explanations night time waking up with the driest mouth and weeping well me and the toilet might as well get married for how long I am sitting on it but 17 times in the space of an hour no fluids and still waking two to three times in the night then today did a sugar test and it was 8.5 do I have anything to worry about or am I just being paranoid please help x x
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With those symptoms you need to go and see your gp and discuss things with them, try and do it sooner rather than later.
 
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