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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LittleWolf" data-source="post: 376872" data-attributes="member: 66893">Ugh. Obviously no one WANTS to be diabetic but I'm having trouble being take seriously. I am going to sound like a hypochondriac, just letting you know...5ft, 105-110lbs, 20 years old, Caribbean.I have a long history of repeated skin infections/fungal infections/rashes, digestive problems etc. Used to be anorexic and had hypoglycaemia, 'managed' by eating lots of sweets to stay awake/relatively sane.  Since I've reached a normal weight suddenly my PCOS became apparent and I feel weird after eating. Makes me so frustrated and I'm so scared of becoming obese like typical PCOS sufferers I feel like just going back to bloody starving myself.Seeing as T2 runs in my family, first my grandma would test me periodically and now I have my own meter.The hot flushes, headaches, episodes of pissing buckets, dizziness and episodes of waking up shaking, sweating and puking everywhere, falling asleep after meals and extreme mood swings/anxiety etc etc seem to correlate with readings I'm getting that I think aren't quite right. On top of that I'm dealing with pain from Endo for which I'm STILL waiting for a laparoscopy, get horrible muscle aches, pins and needles at random times and I'm self conscious of Acanthosis Nigricans which just looks like I haven't washed myself properly...So basically fasting readings aren't all that bad. Usually 5.7-6.7What bothers me is post meal readings usually 8-10.4 2 hours after meals (I don't usually test at 1 hour but often its   around 11) but lately I've had spikes of up to 15.4 like today a while after having a cup of sparkling grape juice.What's confusing is I can also have extreme lows, like one night I woke up feeling like I was dying, had some toast and sweet tea and I was starting to feel better at the point I tested 3.1 so god knows what it was before. I'd been puking all night and my test strips only arrived early that morning after the toast...So I've got highs AND lows. It's affecting my moods, my study, my already conflicting feelings about food/weight, my already low self esteem and my already screwed up sleeping pattern from depression.Every time I call the doctor about the symptoms they never get to the bottom of it and shrug their shoulders 'You're 20, you /should/be fine.' Well I'm clearly not. When I finally did outright ask they check my levels (because of the genetic disposition etc) they blew me off. Last time they said they've requested a test but god knows how many month's time that will be.I'm in and out of hospital several times a month because I've collapsed or thrown up or just drifted off on the way to/from school (like on a busy train station platform-scary) Just hoping if they actually diagnose me a good number of those problems will go away with treatment, because I've had them for many years without a **** decent explanation and I'm already WAY behind on my studies....My T1 friend has better numbers than me >_< And he eats so much junk food!Sorry. That was a half-rant, half asking people with any experience of doctors ignoring a young, slim woman and/or the long term effects of PCOS or eating disorders on blood sugar regulation.My T1 friend has better numbers than me >_< And he eats so much junk food!Thanks for your time, anyone who read all of that... *frustration*Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></blockquote>

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