Diabetes

[emmie]

what is the method of determining you have diabetes, is it purely a blood test.

[Buenchico]

See here:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/Diagnosis.aspx

[emmie]

thank you, wondered if some have it and there experience, and what tests they had to do

[Sqad]

Yes.

[emmie]

so if have a blood test and it doesn't come back positive, you wouldn't need a urine test...

[emmie]

is it possible to get it much later in life....

[Sqad]

Blood sugar is the main result.

Glucose Tolerance Test and urinalysis, if done at all, just "gild the lily."

[Sqad]

Sorry just seen your last post.

Yes, Type 2 diabetes is much, much more common in the over 50's but is getting earlier as we are getting fatter and lazier.(although, there may be exceptions....but very few.)

[Buenchico]

>>>is it possible to get it much later in life....

Quote:
"You are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes if you are over 40 years old"

Source:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/Causes.aspx

[emmie]

i have rather yo yo'd in weight over the last years, mainly through ill health in one way or another, could be that be a possible - also currently things have been very bad in the lower back department, but also in other areas where i am trying to get help, urine sample came back negative of an infection recently, but no one suggested doing blood test for diabetes.
i have felt so ropey for so long, hot in the face almost constantly and the lower abdomen very painful, urine smells pretty awful...

[Sqad]

emmie........i am sure that someone has done a blood sugar..........the practice nurse could due it with just capillary blood (pin prick)

[emmie]

so you can tell just from that - the little thumb test, had one some time back, not recently.

[Sqad]

Yepp.....that is all that you need..........

[emmie]

i am going in Friday, will discuss with the nurse,

[Sqad]

;-)

[emmie]

is by any chance a constant unassuaged thirst anything to do with it.

[Sqad]

Yes, that is one of the symptoms of diabetes.

[emmie]

ok, thank you. these abdominal pains and the urine smell are really vile.

[boxtops]

Weeing a lot, too, is a symptom.... and yes, your practice nurse can do the blood test for you.

[jno]

it's possible that something has developed since you had the pin prick test - if you'd had diabetes then you'd imagine they would have told you, that's what the test's for. Worth asking for another.

[emmie]

i will, i feel totally rotten.. my lower back scan is soon, the pain has been there since early may in the same place, just got worse over this time.