My GP found raised glucose in my urine at a routine medical in 2008. I then underwent an OGTT and passed.
I had another medical in 2012, where a different doctor found the same thing, and I underwent another OGTT and passed again. My BP was also measured at 193/103 so I was put on Amlodopine.
After this I had routine annual checks on my BP, and a blood test in 2013, but no mention was made of a raised HbA1c.
Early in 2015 I started feeling dreadful, was drinking and urinating loads. After consulting Doctor Google I deduced I might have T2D (the good Doctor sent me to this site at the same time)
I bought an Accuchek monitor and tested my blood one Sunday morning before breakfast and it was 17.4, I did the same thing the following Sunday and it was 16.3.
My annual BP monitoring appointment was the following week, so asked for a blood test to be taken as I thought I had T2D.
The rest is history.
BTW
@Listlad how do you manage to get a HbA1c done so frequently when you are not "officially" diagnosed? I find it difficult enough to persuade my surgery to do one even though I am.