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    Lab ignored doctors blood test request.

    Im in the UK (Scotland to be precise) and when I rang back later on Friday afternoon, the receptionist I spoke to then said that it said on the results they had recieved that the lab had marked it as "inappropriate for the diagnosis of Diabetes" and had only completed the Fasting glucose test...
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    Lab ignored doctors blood test request.

    So, my doctor recently ordered me to have an Hba1C test along with a fasting glucose test. I called for the results today, and it transpires that the lab has completely disregarded my doctors requests for the HbA1c even though I've been having high fasting blood sugars, and some higher than...
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    Have you had problems with the DVLA since being diagnosed?

    Re: Have you had problems with the DVLA since being diagnose My mum is a Type 1 Diabetic, diagnosed at 17 years of age (her 17th birthday in fact) and EVERY time she applied for a provisional license during the 80's, they always denied her this citing her diabetes as being a risk. I always...
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    Should I be worried about my fasting test?

    I'd originally made the first appt with my GP on advice of the Practice Nurse, who I'd mentioned that I kept getting burning sensations in my hands and feet (my feet and lower legs are already affected by Pernicious Anaemia related Neuropathy) and she insisted that I make an appt to get that...
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    Hi from a newbie

    I probably should have posted my introduction before asking my question but oh well. Im Cazmia, almost 34, from South East Scotland. I originally joined the forums as my mother has been a diabetic since I was six months old (She is T1, diagnosed on her 17th birthday), and my grandmother since I...
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    Should I be worried about my fasting test?

    Hmm to google it is then.
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    Should I be worried about my fasting test?

    Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask etc, but I have been booked in for a fasting blood glucose test on tuesday morning, and my GP has asked for HbA1C to be tested too (I am not a diabetic yet, but my mother is a T1 for 32 and a half years and my grandmother , my mums mum, is a T2 for 20...
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