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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PlushPuppy" data-source="post: 2556505" data-attributes="member: 561320">This is about where I am at the moment.  Had blood tests taken beginning of AUG because GP thought I may have DVT (not) and he was concerned that my HbA1C was elevated more than he would like.  As was my cholesterol.  I countered with I know pain and stress can elevate both, to which he agreed.  I said the pain I was having in the back of my knee (to which he had not a clue what the cause was) that had now completely engulfed the leg, ankle, and now my back was crippling.  And just for fun, let's throw in that we had just buried my mother-in-law, who I adored and was like my Mom to me, as well as my father-in-law four months earlier...  Not to mention the stress which went on from the end of last year when they suddenly went downhill within days of one another.  So, we agreed to test in 3 months time.  A month forward, I had another issue crop up and was back to the GP seeing a locum who ran bloods again.  This time another GP called frantic saying my HbA1C level was higher than in AUG, she wants me on Metformin - that day!Also, cholesterol was higher then in AUG so she wants me on statins stat - but that will happen middle of NOV.  My kidney numbers were low, however, she will give me that if I was in week 8 or 9 of rampant diarrhea that they could not find a reason for.  I was probably dehydrated.  No probably about it, I was.  Couldn't eat or drink.  I called my older sister in tears.  She's been T2 for 15 years and has managed quite well, in fact coming off Metformin, but now back on it after the kidney stone bout.  She wanted my numbers - which I was so flustered I didn't get. I finally got them and I wasn't higher in SEP then in AUG, I down by 3 on the HbA1C.  Still high, but not as dire as she projected.  My sister keeps saying she feels they jumped the gun and should not have prescribed yet - and it was too early to retest.   My sister keeps saying, "Stress and pain, and you've got them both."  Neither has been eliminated, but now ramped up by all this kerfuffle.  I have set upon researching how to lower my numbers.  I feel I've taken positive steps.  Tomorrow I have my first appointment with the DN and I've a few questions lined up.  I do have the benefit of my sister's and two older brothers' experiences, not to mention my nephew who has now got, according to him. "...a whiz bang diabetes doctor who thinks outside the box..." and has reversed everything my nephew was originally advised to great success.  But yes, I am making my own decisions and shall see if I am correct - and am really undecided about the statins at the moment.  Heart disease is in my family.</blockquote>

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