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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lesleyr284" data-source="post: 90333" data-attributes="member: 8647">starana,I sympathise with your confusion and would agree with others here that you should insist on clarification.  Can you see a different doctor at your practice and explain that you would like an OGTT or at least some clarification.I believe the only way to deal with any health issue to have control and that starts at the GP. When I was told it was about time I went on metformin, I got my HbA1c down to 5.8 and stunned the doc into silence. Do not let your health run away with you, take control and demand answers you can understand. I take it you are seeing a hospital consultant for a different issue and not diabetes? I would go back to your GP and remember they are there to help you (even if sometimes that is very hard to believe!). I can't tell you how many times doctors have tried to prescribe antibiotics that I'm allergic to!  It's in the notes so why on earth they can't read it is beyond me!It took 2 years for me to be properly diagnosed. 1st Doc handed me a meter and told me to check my bloods once or twice a week. a while later I saw a different doc to get more test strips. She was stunned I had a meter and said I'd had no actual diagnosis so wasn't officially diabetic. If I only knew then what I know now... :roll: Ask for clear answers. It's your health not theirs.Good luck!</blockquote>

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