I have been to the doctor. I told her I was concerned about having diabetes. “Oh yes”, she said. “You’re right to be concerned – those glucose tests are very imprecise”. So WHY THE FSCK didn’t they call me in for a proper test?
I’m having a fasting blood test on Wednesday, which will be fun, because I’m very close to phobic about needles; I’ll need to lose that fast if I’m diabetic.
The doctor tells me that the “current thinking” is to put everyone with diabetes on Metformin. I don’t want Metformin – I want to try diet and exercise. She explained to me how diabetes is a lifelong condition, how it doesn’t get better, etc., but even so – it’s my body, and I want to manage the condition myself, so I can see some battles there too.
What really bothers me is that she thinks it’s quite possible I am diabetic, and yet the surgery was quite happy not to do a proper test; I think that’s appalling.
Time to change surgery, methinks.
@Alan, I fear you might be right. And I’ve only just joined!
If you do have diabetes (and that’s a maybe) you’ll have Type 2 diabetes, which is controllable via diet rather than traditional insulin injections and blood sugar tests.
HTH
Dan
@Dan, I know that – but the doctor doesn’t want me to do diet alone if it is diagnosed, and I’m not happy going straight onto Metformin.