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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jul211" data-source="post: 2760779" data-attributes="member: 598118"><p>Hi For the past 40 plus years I have had non diabetic hypoglycaemic attacks, sometimes up to 6 a day no matter what I eat.    In 2021 I was under a lot of stress, I had cancer, found my younger brother dead, had to take on caring for my elderly mother while undergoing treatment and my asthma was so bad I had to double up my inhaler.   I was living on chocolate bars, chips and pizza most of the time.   A few months later I had a Hba1c blood test.   Then I started getting letters about retinal screening when I asked why they said I had been referred by my GP.   Next thing I get a text from the surgery saying I had type 2 diabetes because the result had come back at 49 and the cut off is 48.   The thing is my inhaler actually can cause elevated glucose readings in blood tests and my next Hba1c tests came back below the diabetic range and I have no symptoms at all.   I am now listed as a diet controlled diabetic even though I eat chocolate, cake and biscuits nearly all the time otherwise I will have hypo attacks.    I monitor my glucose every day and 99% of the time the readings come back within the healthy non-diabetic range (4 to lower 7 fasting and postprandial) despite my diet.   Even if it comes back at say 8 within 10 minutes it will have dropped to 6 or below.  No-one at the surgery  listens to my concerns they just nod and tell me to continue with my diet.   As far as they are concerned I am diabetic based on one minor elevated result.    I obviously do not meet the criteria for referral to the diabetic clinic at the hospital to talk to a specialist so what can I do?    As it stands I feel as if I am taking up important appointments for people with diabetes ie HCA and retinal screening.   My brother believes it is because surgeries receive extra funding for diabetic patients.   So I am hoping someone here tell me if they think I am diabetic or not?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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