Hi, just read your post, I know exactly how you feel, I have had Adhesive Arachnoiditis for 20 years, I had a long hard fight just to get a diagnosis, which is NOT officially accepted by the NHS, secondary conditions are impossible to investigate and treat, I bought a blood pressure monitor that had very high BP readings so my GP had to refer me to the hospital for a barrage of cardiology tests including wearing a 24 blood pressure monitor, I also had chest pain, they said everything was normal but told me to keep taking the blood pressure medication, the consultant said they found something in my blood that needed investigating but that was the last I heard, it took me over a year to get the test results and my GP said it was my cholesterol and go to a lipid clinic, I said you must be able to test Cholesterol, so he done a non fasting cholesterol blood test that came back normal, some time later I started going through the results and saw a very high reading of Triglycerides, and googled it, it is a type of fat in your blood that can only be measured in a fasting blood test, the upper limit is 1.9, mine was 11.4, I wrote to my GP to highlight this and he said we need to do a fasting blood test that came back 24.2, crazy, you can actually see the fat sit on top of the blood sample, he referred me to a Biochemist, he done no further testing and said it was an inherited condition, no one in my family has it, and I was 50 years old it would have been picked up years ago, and the level was far to high to be inherited, I was put on Fenofibrates and Fish Oil capsules, that did not work, they put me on the highest dose and still with diet it would not come down, last reading was 9.0, I done some research and discovered people with chronic pain and autonomic dysfunction have problems with hormonal imbalance, raised stress hormones, cortisol , adrenaline etc, I had said to the biochemist I read that raised triglycerides were linked to raised cortisol and insulin, eventually leading to insulin resistance, pre diabetes then type 2, he didn't disagree, and that's now what happened to me, I have been referred to a diabetes clinic, mornings only, I cant do morning, takes me until about 2pm to feel human and mobile, and what are they going to do for me? I can have a bottle of wine and a very big high carb supper and get a fasting reading of 7.0, then eat a very little high protein supper and get a fating reading of 12.7, it just don't make any sense, its not normal diabetes, the system that controls all hormone release is badly damaged so I cannot control it, I think if I eat what I want I am happy, not stressed, and my body does not thinks its starving and dont get the liver to dump a load of sugar in my blood my insulin cannot use, I wish you all the best, you are not alone.