alexan5151
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- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
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- I do not have diabetes
Hi all, looking for a bit of advice on whether I should get a second opinion/second raft of tests done over a possible diabetes
I'm a 25 yr old male, 55kg 6"0, 28 inch waist; no family history of diabetes and no significant health concerns at all until about 3-4 months ago I started experiencing problems with needing to urinate - mostly it's urgency but I am going more often and now have started waking up in the night to go.
I've seen my GP who suspects urge incontinence and has put me on a tablet for this (my only medication); this was after a raft of blood tests which were all essentially normal, the two relevant ones being spot plasma glucose 4.5 mmoL/L and HbA1c 31 mmol/mol. I know on the face of it those are fine, but the HbA1c concerns me because it appears as being at the higher end of normal and particularly because I did a blood donation ten days before the blood test and I know this can artifically reduce the HbA1c results (I also take iron supplements and I know iron levels can alter the HbA1c but seeing as my haemoglobin was 140, I don't think this would be an issue)?
I know that everything points to me not having diabetes but the only reason I'm concerned is because although I generally have a good diet, I have always had a tendency for occasional (maybe 1 every 6 weeks or so) binges where no doubt my sugar spikes massively and I worry whether, even if I don't put weight on and am fine at other times, this could have caused issues?
I'd really appreciate anyone's thoughts and musings on where I stand here. My head is saying I have nothing to worry about but my (admittedly slightly hypochondriac) heart has me worrying... is the HbA1c a problem? Should I go for another HbA1c test not after a blood donation and see where that ends up? Go back to the GP? For what it's worth ever since the results I've done fingerprick glucose tests and these have always been within the normal range, the highest ever being about 6.7 which was taken 90 minutes after a meal
TIA
I'm a 25 yr old male, 55kg 6"0, 28 inch waist; no family history of diabetes and no significant health concerns at all until about 3-4 months ago I started experiencing problems with needing to urinate - mostly it's urgency but I am going more often and now have started waking up in the night to go.
I've seen my GP who suspects urge incontinence and has put me on a tablet for this (my only medication); this was after a raft of blood tests which were all essentially normal, the two relevant ones being spot plasma glucose 4.5 mmoL/L and HbA1c 31 mmol/mol. I know on the face of it those are fine, but the HbA1c concerns me because it appears as being at the higher end of normal and particularly because I did a blood donation ten days before the blood test and I know this can artifically reduce the HbA1c results (I also take iron supplements and I know iron levels can alter the HbA1c but seeing as my haemoglobin was 140, I don't think this would be an issue)?
I know that everything points to me not having diabetes but the only reason I'm concerned is because although I generally have a good diet, I have always had a tendency for occasional (maybe 1 every 6 weeks or so) binges where no doubt my sugar spikes massively and I worry whether, even if I don't put weight on and am fine at other times, this could have caused issues?
I'd really appreciate anyone's thoughts and musings on where I stand here. My head is saying I have nothing to worry about but my (admittedly slightly hypochondriac) heart has me worrying... is the HbA1c a problem? Should I go for another HbA1c test not after a blood donation and see where that ends up? Go back to the GP? For what it's worth ever since the results I've done fingerprick glucose tests and these have always been within the normal range, the highest ever being about 6.7 which was taken 90 minutes after a meal
TIA
