Gentlemanmike
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Hi everyone,
I wonder if you could help me with a query I have about my diagnosis before I go back to my GP.
About 4 weeks ago I had the flu virus but found that it was taking me a long time to recover and I kept having trouble breathing and also being very tired. I saw my Doctor who thought it might be the onset of diabetes and suggested I have a blood test.
On Monday I had a blood test and it showed a raised sugar level (although the doctor had forgotten to ask me to fast before so I had breakfast before having the blood test)
I saw her again today and she got a nurse to do another test by taking blood from my thumb and putting it in a machine. She said that this would take about 6 minutes and would be able to tell what my sugar levels had been over the last three months. She said that my HbA1c was 7% and gave me all the details about Diabetes and how to deal with it. She did not take a urine sample.
However, when I got home I spoke to one of my diabetic friends who said that the thumb test is not a good test for diabetes and that I should have had a ‘fasting venous blood test’. She also thought that the reading was not indicative of diabetes
As my doctor is very good to me, I didn’t want to query the result but wonder if you could tell me whether I should get another test.
Many thanks
Mike
I wonder if you could help me with a query I have about my diagnosis before I go back to my GP.
About 4 weeks ago I had the flu virus but found that it was taking me a long time to recover and I kept having trouble breathing and also being very tired. I saw my Doctor who thought it might be the onset of diabetes and suggested I have a blood test.
On Monday I had a blood test and it showed a raised sugar level (although the doctor had forgotten to ask me to fast before so I had breakfast before having the blood test)
I saw her again today and she got a nurse to do another test by taking blood from my thumb and putting it in a machine. She said that this would take about 6 minutes and would be able to tell what my sugar levels had been over the last three months. She said that my HbA1c was 7% and gave me all the details about Diabetes and how to deal with it. She did not take a urine sample.
However, when I got home I spoke to one of my diabetic friends who said that the thumb test is not a good test for diabetes and that I should have had a ‘fasting venous blood test’. She also thought that the reading was not indicative of diabetes
As my doctor is very good to me, I didn’t want to query the result but wonder if you could tell me whether I should get another test.
Many thanks
Mike