I'd originally made the first appt with my GP on advice of the Practice Nurse, who I'd mentioned that I kept getting burning sensations in my hands and feet (my feet and lower legs are already affected by Pernicious Anaemia related Neuropathy) and she insisted that I make an appt to get that checked out, which is when my GP ran the initial blood test primarily to check B12 levels, but she also checked stuff like Folates (which were 1.3 and according to GP Very low), liver function, blood glucose etc, which is when she discovered the borderline diabetes as the sugar came back as 6.2mmol.
After getting the blood results, I started randomly testing my sugar each day, sometimes 2 hours after a meal, and quite often before I'd eat, to see if there was some pattern of them going high.
The 10.9mmol result came roughly 2 hours after a meal, I checked the sugar level then because I'd started feeling unwell, and it was accompanied by the most god awful headache too.
When I saw my GP on the 13th of this month, I mentioned that 10.9mmol result to her, and she said that eating a salad roll really shouldnt have impacted my sugars to be that high as most normal people can cope with that, which is why she ordered a fasting test and an HbA1c test.
She now also thinks that a lot of the symptoms Ive had from the PA (the nerve issues, tiredness, headaches, urinary problems etc) could be related to the blood sugars, even though I was experiencing those 2 years ago when the blood sugars were coming back normal on labwork.