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Hello,
I'm a very new person who is hoping for the benefit of what is clearly well-informed advice on here.
I have just been 'diagnosed' (I think!) with Diabetes, pending another fasting blood test next week. However, the nurse said that she is expecting it to confirm the news, rather than tell her anything different.
My glucose levels were flagged up as abnormal during a FBC done to assist my Endocrinologist in trying to get to the bottom of current ridiculously high levels of T4 (underactive throid for 20 years - levels all over the place at the moment). The glucose blood test came back at 8.1, but they weren't too concerned as it was a 'random glucose test'(whatever that means!) and I had eaten a meal prior to the blood test. I also had zero vitamin B12 present and am now having injections of B12 to get that into my system. However, just to make doubly sure of the high sugar levels, my GP ordered a repeat test following a period of 12 hour fasting. I have today been hoiked in by the GP as the results had come back and showed a level of 11.9 - and it is this which has prompted them to diagnose Diabetes. I have to have another fasting test to check again and following on from that, they will discuss treatment with me.
I have a couple of initial questions, which I should have asked the nurse, but was too dazed to think of at the time:
1) Is a level of 11.9 high/borderline or quite low?
2) I had an episode of acute pancreatitis (caused by gallstones) last year which laid me in hospital for 3 weeks. I remember the nurses pricking my finger with the machine several times a day to check my blood sugar levels, and it was the one thing which they were always surprised to see as normal (I believe it ranged from 3.0 - 4.5 most of the time). I am wondering, could the pancreatitis have somehow triggered this?
Any help or advice at this stage would be great. I am normally very upbeat about my ailments - I am also registered disabled following complications during spinal surgery 3 years ago - but I'm starting to feel that someone is conspiring against me just lately!!!!!
Not sure if it's worth pointing out that I appear to have no symptoms other than perpetual tiredness, which the nurse said may have been due to the vit B12 deficiency in any event, and immense weight gain, which has been attributed to my massively undertreated thyroid and limitations on my physical ability to excerise over the last 3-4 years.
Many, many thanks.
Hello,
I'm a very new person who is hoping for the benefit of what is clearly well-informed advice on here.
I have just been 'diagnosed' (I think!) with Diabetes, pending another fasting blood test next week. However, the nurse said that she is expecting it to confirm the news, rather than tell her anything different.
My glucose levels were flagged up as abnormal during a FBC done to assist my Endocrinologist in trying to get to the bottom of current ridiculously high levels of T4 (underactive throid for 20 years - levels all over the place at the moment). The glucose blood test came back at 8.1, but they weren't too concerned as it was a 'random glucose test'(whatever that means!) and I had eaten a meal prior to the blood test. I also had zero vitamin B12 present and am now having injections of B12 to get that into my system. However, just to make doubly sure of the high sugar levels, my GP ordered a repeat test following a period of 12 hour fasting. I have today been hoiked in by the GP as the results had come back and showed a level of 11.9 - and it is this which has prompted them to diagnose Diabetes. I have to have another fasting test to check again and following on from that, they will discuss treatment with me.
I have a couple of initial questions, which I should have asked the nurse, but was too dazed to think of at the time:
1) Is a level of 11.9 high/borderline or quite low?
2) I had an episode of acute pancreatitis (caused by gallstones) last year which laid me in hospital for 3 weeks. I remember the nurses pricking my finger with the machine several times a day to check my blood sugar levels, and it was the one thing which they were always surprised to see as normal (I believe it ranged from 3.0 - 4.5 most of the time). I am wondering, could the pancreatitis have somehow triggered this?
Any help or advice at this stage would be great. I am normally very upbeat about my ailments - I am also registered disabled following complications during spinal surgery 3 years ago - but I'm starting to feel that someone is conspiring against me just lately!!!!!
Not sure if it's worth pointing out that I appear to have no symptoms other than perpetual tiredness, which the nurse said may have been due to the vit B12 deficiency in any event, and immense weight gain, which has been attributed to my massively undertreated thyroid and limitations on my physical ability to excerise over the last 3-4 years.
Many, many thanks.