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Hi all, I’m seeing a doctor before work tomorrow but it’s unlikely I’ll be able to have blood drawn for testing until next week. (I may take matters into my own hands and buy a kit from a chemist.)
I feel convinced that I have diabetes setting in. My symptoms are (quite drastic) peripheral neuropathy and this tingling is especially problematic after eating sugar of any kind. In addition, I’m itching ‘there’, and often feel exhausted. My appetite is ravenous but I neither lose nor gain weight.
I am hypothyroid and take 150mcg levothyroxine each day. I rarely drink alcohol but have been addicted to nicotine lozenges for a number of years (although have recently given them up). My BMI is healthy at 23.
The confusion stems from having a fasting blood glucose test as recently as March. The reading was only 4.4. Could diabetes have set in so soon and with such strong symptoms in three months?
I am quite concerned of course, but will deal with whatever diagnosis I receive. It’s the not knowing right now that is the most stressful thing.
Could prediabetes be what’s happening to me when my blood glucose was not approaching prediabetes only three months ago?
I’d be enormously grateful for any thoughts. Wishing everyone well and with thanks even for reading this. X
I feel convinced that I have diabetes setting in. My symptoms are (quite drastic) peripheral neuropathy and this tingling is especially problematic after eating sugar of any kind. In addition, I’m itching ‘there’, and often feel exhausted. My appetite is ravenous but I neither lose nor gain weight.
I am hypothyroid and take 150mcg levothyroxine each day. I rarely drink alcohol but have been addicted to nicotine lozenges for a number of years (although have recently given them up). My BMI is healthy at 23.
The confusion stems from having a fasting blood glucose test as recently as March. The reading was only 4.4. Could diabetes have set in so soon and with such strong symptoms in three months?
I am quite concerned of course, but will deal with whatever diagnosis I receive. It’s the not knowing right now that is the most stressful thing.
Could prediabetes be what’s happening to me when my blood glucose was not approaching prediabetes only three months ago?
I’d be enormously grateful for any thoughts. Wishing everyone well and with thanks even for reading this. X