Totally annoyed now.. Does that mean I might not be T2 after all? (Im anemic)
he said I was diabetic, prescribed metformin & basically sent away.. (not taking the metformin) I was 8.0.. With cutting carbs & hitting the veggie's (more iron) my meter tests have gone down. 5 on waking today, 5.4 before lunch & 5-2 two hours after.. & thats in 6 days..
Wow, in 6 days.
Congratulations for holding off on the metformin!
I was once told, "you have diabetes" by a nurse on the basis of my A1c. I googled furiously and realized that I was nondiabetic by a heap of test results, except for that one. Recent medical distress had suspiciously coincided with the leap in A1c. When I complained to the clinic management, they advised that the nurse had made no official notation that I was diabetic, despite what she had said so to my face. Weird, but to my benefit!
Home testing is useful for monitoring. It is not administratively valid for diagnosis. Since your latest numbers are trending so well, in your shoes I'd keep up the regimen for a few weeks, keep monitoring, and if there's a need, get retested. I wouldn't get retested right away, while the metabolism is in flux from the anemia treatment. If the retest is negative, I imagine they'll be only too happy to send you on your way. There's a diabetes epidemic. One less patient to treat should please them.