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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2763567" data-attributes="member: 372717">Hi [USER=598649]@malcolm j[/USER] and welcome to the forums.I have to be really careful what I say here because forum rules don't let us give medical advice. But I think I can give some information without breaking the rules.Most first world countries diagnose diabetes via an hba1c[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html[/URL](though you can also diagnose via spot blood tests, which may well be what her local doctors have done?)Though there are different types of diabetes, needing more complicated tests for diagnosis, the assumption tends to be that an adult has T2 diabetes, just because 90% of diabetics have T2.  (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-2-diabetes.html" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-2-diabetes.html</a> )Does she have a glucometer so that you know what those levels are?</blockquote>

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