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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 2336027" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>I had my blood draw 2 weeks ago. My results appeared on-line 24 hours later - no cholesterol or lipids for the first time since diagnosis almost 7 years ago. After waiting a week to make sure, I emailed the surgery and had a reply within minutes. This was the reply from the Practice Manager:</p><p></p><p><em>We don't include lipids and cholesterol requests for the blood tests for patients with diabetes in remission, only if you were on a statin to control your cholesterol levels.</em></p><p><em>I hope this clarifies things.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>I replied that I am only in remission according to their interpretation, that my HbA1c's between 40 and 44 put me in the pre-diabetic stage, and that back in 2014 I was prescribed statins, which I took for a couple of months then stopped, despite protestations from my GP, and that all this will be in my records. He replied saying I could have the cholesterol/lipids test and should telephone for an appointment. I wonder if this is now a new guideline? If it is, people would have to regain full diabetes or go back on statins or develop some other illness before they could ever have another cholesterol test. I pushed, and won. I will keep on doing this if it happens again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 2336027, member: 94045"] I had my blood draw 2 weeks ago. My results appeared on-line 24 hours later - no cholesterol or lipids for the first time since diagnosis almost 7 years ago. After waiting a week to make sure, I emailed the surgery and had a reply within minutes. This was the reply from the Practice Manager: [I]We don't include lipids and cholesterol requests for the blood tests for patients with diabetes in remission, only if you were on a statin to control your cholesterol levels. I hope this clarifies things. [/I] I replied that I am only in remission according to their interpretation, that my HbA1c's between 40 and 44 put me in the pre-diabetic stage, and that back in 2014 I was prescribed statins, which I took for a couple of months then stopped, despite protestations from my GP, and that all this will be in my records. He replied saying I could have the cholesterol/lipids test and should telephone for an appointment. I wonder if this is now a new guideline? If it is, people would have to regain full diabetes or go back on statins or develop some other illness before they could ever have another cholesterol test. I pushed, and won. I will keep on doing this if it happens again. [/QUOTE]
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