@Fluffy12
two weeks before I was diagnosed with diabetes, I was advised to self test with a blood glucose meter.
I would also have episodes where my blood sugar would reach 27/28mmol, but after 3 or so hours would come back to 10, so it wasn’t taken seriously by the Doctors.
I asked my gp for a random glucose test (blood sample) and I was told to eat a high carb meal about 30 mins before, as this would show the spike if it was significantly high.
[by this point I had used all my testing strips for my glucose machine, and hadn’t yet got anymore]
6 hours after the blood test I had about 4 phone calls from an unknown number, but did not answer, as I never use to answer unknown callers. (Later learnt that this was the hospital lab with my results).
Next morning I woke up feeling worse than ever, and collapsed in the street and ended up in hospital,
was told I was in DKA as my diabetes had not been managed. My GP later called me to say that the lab had tried to call me the previous night (was the unknown caller) to tell me my blood glucose was 49mmol and that I needed to go to hospital ASAP. If maybe I’d answered that phone call I might have got to a&e before collapsing and ending up in intensive care, maybe not, who knows.
Anyway, I went a bit off topic, but just wanted to tell you that there is always light at the end of the tunnel (and maybe ask for a random glucose blood test - an actual blood test from Your arm and I would recommend eating a large amount of carbs beforehand, to ensure that if there is a problem with your blood sugars, it will show clearly )