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<blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2059513" data-attributes="member: 480869"><p>[USER=499223]@Listlad[/USER] I’m assuming you never had a second confirmatory test at a diagnosable level, hence why you are labelled as prediabetic by your surgery not type 2. And if they won’t recommend testing to type 2, with potentially much higher levels than yours have been, then it’s unlikely they would recommend it to a prediabetic. </p><p></p><p>The usual excuses of sore fingers, anxiety and “what will you do about the results anyway without insulin?” are likely to be trotted out for both you and most type 2 though. All of which have good answers if the dr in question wants to listen to the answers. So it’s likely to be ignorance/denial of those answers or toeing the party line because of costs (short sighted when compared to the cost of complications and quite possibly the stronger meds).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSSS, post: 2059513, member: 480869"] [USER=499223]@Listlad[/USER] I’m assuming you never had a second confirmatory test at a diagnosable level, hence why you are labelled as prediabetic by your surgery not type 2. And if they won’t recommend testing to type 2, with potentially much higher levels than yours have been, then it’s unlikely they would recommend it to a prediabetic. The usual excuses of sore fingers, anxiety and “what will you do about the results anyway without insulin?” are likely to be trotted out for both you and most type 2 though. All of which have good answers if the dr in question wants to listen to the answers. So it’s likely to be ignorance/denial of those answers or toeing the party line because of costs (short sighted when compared to the cost of complications and quite possibly the stronger meds). [/QUOTE]
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