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doctor did not say I had diabetes

pat firth

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Diet only
So I was getting some symptoms of diabetes swollen feet,blurry vision (just once) aching legs .
I went to the Doctors and he just circled a few of the results from the blod and urine test.I had a HBA1 c lvel of 7.3 but of all the times I have took these tests(5) this was the first time this had shown up.I live in Japan and the dr does spealk japanese .I have gone 8 days with out alcohol sugar or carbohydrates.My question is should the DDR have told me whether or not I had diabetes ,according to research I did it seems I have it with my reading.my tg level is 208
if annyone can advise my next mov3 I would appreciate it

regards
 
Hi @pat firth and welcome to the forum. Unfortunately, unless you know which units that HbA1C result was measured in, I can't tell what a reading of 7.3 means. You say you have a tg level of 208- do you mean a Blood Glucose (BG) level of 208 (which would seem to be consistent with the units for BG used in the USA.

Do you realise that your details say that you have Type 1 Diabetes and that you are taking no medication for that - which seems strange?
* Edited to add:
It seems that sometimes local Japanese units are used for blood test results.
 
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