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Diabetes test

I have done loads of posts in here, and we all wound each other up about horrible diabetes blood tests.

Just to say, I visited the docs yesterday for some thing else, and mentioned it.

She did a quick urine test and it was as easy as that. No sugar in my wee, hence no diabetes.

I should have mentioned it sooner, instead of worrying about needles :tsr:

Reply 1

hanadeka2002

Hmph,when I had a diabetes test they stabbed my finger!

Reply 2

i am here now

1

i was going to say all they need to do is pin prick your fingers and get the glucose reading up!!!

Reply 3

Lady Narcissus

OP

14

U don't realise a needle prick makes me faint LOL

Reply 4

Caster Troy2

The pin prick is so faint you can hardly tell they've done it. And it's hardly a full blown needle. You can't even see the point.

Reply 5

SuperhansFavouriteAlsatian

One of my friends has diabetes and she did a test on my finger, just to show me what she does and you're right, you can hardly feel it.

Reply 6

Fluffy

15

You cannot diagnose diabetes from either a urine sample or the pin prick test. You can, however, more or less rule it out.

Diagnosis is done on the basis of a Fasting Blood Glucise test or a Glucose Tolerance Test and needs a proper blood sample (or 4).

A negative urine or pin prick test means you probably do not hav diabetes mellitus, it doens't totally exclude it though...

Reply 7

Leisure17

8

Fluffy is right!
These tests you have mentioned are screening methods which only catch manifest diabetes. You will only have glucose in your urine if it is much too high in your blood. If it were moderately high you might not have any glucose in your urine, but still be a diabetic.
The same goes for the prick in the finger. It is more sensitve than testing urine, but still you might have a normal blood suger level in the morning but it still gets too high after eating or eating sugary food.
I don't want to scare or frustrate you, but in order to really rule out diabetes the easiest way is a GTT (Glucose Tolerance Test) where you drink a defined amount of sugar and the blood sugar level (yes, a prick, 3 actually) gets measured before you drink the stuff (fasting value of blood sugar) after 1 h and after 2 hrs. If the blood sugar level does not exceed a certain level you are not diabetic. This is the right method if you want to be certain you don't have diabetes. I can only recommend you get it done, since I get the impression you are really concerned about this.

Reply 8

-TMG-

9

cherrychocolate

Hmph,when I had a diabetes test they stabbed my finger!

My sister did that to me, except she put the metal thingy (for testing blood sugar) under my fingernail...evil girl.

[My sister is diabetic] They found out my sister was diabetic after she woke up blind, and was very tired (her eyes were glazed over from lack of sugar or something...).

Reply 9

.:fluff:.

1

my best friend is diabetic and has "pricked" me before to try and get me to over-come my fear of needles. I've also been told that i should go and get checked for diabetes myself,i might follow by your example and slip it in whilst i'm at the doctors next week!
Glad everything came out ok btw. :smile:

Reply 10

ib_victim86

i think that you should'nt be bothered with the gulucose tolerence test unless you've got the classic diabetes sympotoms. If you don't have the symptoms and are not overweight, the chances of diabetes are very low..

Reply 11

Caster Troy2

ib_victim86

i think that you should'nt be bothered with the gulucose tolerence test unless you've got the classic diabetes sympotoms. If you don't have the symptoms and are not overweight, the chances of diabetes are very low..

Excess weight is associated with type II diabetes, or adult onset. Type I, juveline onset is in fact characteried by weight loss as symptoms progress.

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