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<blockquote data-quote="Doarnamor" data-source="post: 1875935" data-attributes="member: 393386"><p>I am convinced I am type 2 diabetic, but have not been officially diagnosed as diabetic. I started to suspect 6 months ago, at that time I bought a blood sugar meter and started testing. Two months later I had a heart attack, got a stent put in and later I had a follow-up appointment with the doctor I told him what kind of blood sugar readings I had been seeing and his eyes went wide and he said, "Well your a diabetic!" </p><p></p><p>Normally he would have sent me for blood tests right away, but I was leaving town right away. The doctor gave me the form for my blood tests and said to have it done when I'm back home and we made another appointment for October 4th. I've been travelling across Canada for the past 4 month and just arrived home. The blood tests include a fasting glucose and an A1c test. The last thing he said to me as I was leaving was, "Watch the carbs."</p><p></p><p>For the last 4 months I've been monitoring my blood sugar and eating a Low Carb diet. I've also lost a little over 20 lbs. My numbers have, of course, got much better. So much better that I believe at worst my blood tests will come back as pre-diabetic and possibly not diabetic. Or I could go back to eating the old way and get diagnosed as diabetic.</p><p></p><p>I think I'll stay eating low carb and get diagnosed as not being diabetic because I don't want to have my blood sugar go high again even for a week or three. I also won't have to report being diabetic when applying for health insurance, etc.</p><p></p><p>But on the other side if I do get diagnosed I might get the stupid expensive test strips covered and get put in the system for whatever extra help or monitoring a diabetic in Canada receives.</p><p></p><p>So it's my choice, I think I control wether I'm officially diagnosed as diabetic or not. What would you do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doarnamor, post: 1875935, member: 393386"] I am convinced I am type 2 diabetic, but have not been officially diagnosed as diabetic. I started to suspect 6 months ago, at that time I bought a blood sugar meter and started testing. Two months later I had a heart attack, got a stent put in and later I had a follow-up appointment with the doctor I told him what kind of blood sugar readings I had been seeing and his eyes went wide and he said, "Well your a diabetic!" Normally he would have sent me for blood tests right away, but I was leaving town right away. The doctor gave me the form for my blood tests and said to have it done when I'm back home and we made another appointment for October 4th. I've been travelling across Canada for the past 4 month and just arrived home. The blood tests include a fasting glucose and an A1c test. The last thing he said to me as I was leaving was, "Watch the carbs." For the last 4 months I've been monitoring my blood sugar and eating a Low Carb diet. I've also lost a little over 20 lbs. My numbers have, of course, got much better. So much better that I believe at worst my blood tests will come back as pre-diabetic and possibly not diabetic. Or I could go back to eating the old way and get diagnosed as diabetic. I think I'll stay eating low carb and get diagnosed as not being diabetic because I don't want to have my blood sugar go high again even for a week or three. I also won't have to report being diabetic when applying for health insurance, etc. But on the other side if I do get diagnosed I might get the stupid expensive test strips covered and get put in the system for whatever extra help or monitoring a diabetic in Canada receives. So it's my choice, I think I control wether I'm officially diagnosed as diabetic or not. What would you do? [/QUOTE]
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