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just been to drs, thoughts please?

ktann

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Hi

I was wondering if anyone could give me their thoughts?

I have just been to the Drs, I am due to go next thursday for a blood test but I have really not been feeling well so thought I'd go and see if they could do it sooner. They can't but she did a finger prick test and it was just over 7. I had had a small bowl of frosties just over 2 hours before, is this normal?

for about 6 weeks i have been drinking loads, constantly thirsty and going to the toilet constantly, I didnt think anything of it but my boyfriend told me to ask the dr as i was annoying him keep getting out of bed to go to the toilet as it seems to be worse at night but since last thursday I have started feeling unwell, Ive had a constant unshifting headache, im really tired, feel weak and short of breath at time, last night i was boiling hot and felt a little off balance with things feeling like they were going round if i had my eyes closed.

I tend to feel worse as the day goes on, its like feeling flu-ey but not if that makes sense.

Although i am ok now i have a history of anorexia which the dr said can cause diabetes sometimes?

Does anyone have any advice or thoughts? If I have diabetes because of my past history with anorexia I will be annoyed and feel like I have done it to myself and especially as i am finally over it and worked hard to do so and my blood always being ok through it all and for this to potenially happen...

Thanks
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Hi ktann and welcome to the forum You will have to wait until you have had your blood test and the results to be able to know if you have diabetes - we cannot diagnose for you on this forum. But I can give you some basic information, written by the forum monitors, which could be useful to you whether you turn out to be diabetic or not. Good luck with your appointment

 
I've not come across anything that says anorexia leads to diabetes (I'm studying Type 1 at the moment). I've come across stuff that says that deficiencies in certain things may play a part in causing both anorexia and diabetes. I've also come across lots and lots of stuff which says that more Type 1 diabetics have eating disorders than non-diabetics - but this is not saying anorexia causes diabetes, it's saying that managing Type 1 can trigger eating disorders. It could be that your doc read that eating disorders are associated with diabetes and assumed that the eating disorders cause the diabetes rather than the other way round?
Either way, don't feel angry with yourself. If you have got through anorexia you have every right to congratulate yourself and certainly don't think that it caused diabetes.
 
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