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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Interesting . I had exactly the same things for years before formal diagnosis. I retained water and the more I drank the more I retained. I had persistent oedema in my lower legs. Urine often dark brown and very little of it. GP put me on furosemide and then bumetanide and was about to move to a third one when BS finally reached a level where they would agree I had diabetes. It seems the "common" picture is that "diabetics pee a lot, if you don't you're not diabetic". Mine has largely cleared up as BS came back to normal range, although I still get some oedema occasionally, especially if I've been on my feet all day and taking in lots of fluid. Please update on how you get along.Hi, I had a blood test at the end of January showing A1C of 48 (equal to 6.5%), which is in the diabetes range. (I was tested in 2018, and the result was an H1AC of 35 then.) Now the doctors want me to do another follow-up blood test at the end of February to confirm the diagnosis.
My main symptom, and why I went to the doctors, is urination. But I've read on the Internet how diabetics urinate a lot, whereas I mean that when I go to bed I feel the need to go to toilet even if I have hardly drunk anything all day. It can be: urinate 1 drop, go to bed, 2 mins later get up again to urinate 1 drop, go to bed, 2 mins later 1 more drop. And it can carry on for hours - when the bladder is basically empty anyway.
I wonder if I need to drink more, and if dehydration (my urine is dark orange) leads to overconcentrated urine that irritates the bladder? Or have I got another condition entirely?
So basically in addition to trouble getting to sleep because of feeling like I need to urinate small amounts, I also wake up many times in the night to urinate properly. And during the day, I didn't use to need to urinate a lot, but this has now become a problem - good job I work from home and can go to the toilet when I want.
The only other problem is constant problems with swollen feet, for no real reason. I have to avoid hot baths for that reason. Do my symptoms sound recognisable?
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