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[elsa]

Hi all l have been reading the posts on this forum and as you all sound far more clued up than my gp I am hoping you can help. I have been feeling very tearful and absolutely exhausted for a long time. I visited my gp who ran a plethora of blood tests, which he told me to have at the clinic that morning. Later that week I had a letter to repeat a fasting bg test. He didn't mention that it was fasting and I had had a cup of tea with one sugar and it came back 9.2. The second fasting test ,I did indeed fast, but I had drunk a bottle of red wine at a birthday party the day before and the test came back normal. I went to see another gp and told her that I was concerned and she gave me a row for coming off citalopram 3 and a half years ago without consulting a gp! My neighbour tested my bg yesterday 3hours after eating and it was 8.7. My question I suppose is A what are your thoughts on the bgs and B does high bg make you feel weepy and exhausted?
Thanks all

 

[Grazer]

The weepy and exhausted bit doesn't particularly sound like high BGs, but your levels do look a bit higher than might be expected of a non-diabetic. I'd go back to the GP and say you want an "HbA1c" test. This is a single blood test, but shows how your average blood sugars have been over the prtevious month or so. This could be more definitive than random fasting tests.

 

[angua]

she gave me a row for coming off citalopram 3 and a half years ago without consulting a gp!

Hi Elsa it may well be that you have a little fight on your hands, you may indeed have genuine concerns but you may be presenting in a way that the dr feels is indicative of your not being on citalopram :roll:
Grazer is right, insist on an HbA1c test - that will prove your levels over the last 3 months and a decision can be taken from there
In the meantime, consider if you are overweight, do you carry extra weight around your middle, these might be indicators of metabolic disease or insulin resistance and will influence your bg - and probably (if you do nothing) lead on to Type II diabetes

Please keep coming to the forum, there is so much to learn and apply to help keep healthy

Good luck

Gilly xx

p.s I didn't have the weepy, but I did have extreme exhaustion

 

[desidiabulum]

Weepy and exhaustion can be linked to vitamin B12 deficiency -- which can be caused by taking metformin, but also could accompany other autoimmune problems. Just a thought.

 

[elsa]

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply.. I have indeed got a hba test Tues so I'll no more on wed. Take care all x

 

[ladybird64]

Hi Elsa

This sounds familiar! I dropped my Citalopram about 3 months ago and also got raised eyebrows..then again I did go to the docs with symptoms of something often associated with stopping SSRI's.

Re the high bgs, exhaustion that was the one symptom that I recall. No thirst or anything like that but I could hardly keep my eyes open most of the time. As someone who has never been able to nap, not even in a chair, it was scary. I don't remember being especially weepy but if you have anxiety/depressive problems every so often, it could be connected with that.

The levels sound a little bit on the high side. Go for your test on Tues but have a good read up of the topics on here regarding diet just in case you come back with a positive result. Forewarned is forearmed!

One last thing, re the mention of B12 deficiency. I was diagnosed with this (pernicious anaemia) in Novemeber last year, nearly 6 months after my diabetes diagnosis, at the time I wasn't taking Metformin but he did say that diabetes was still sometimes linked. Hopefully your doc will check to rule that out.

Good luck.