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Diagnosis and Symptoms

I have access to a blood glucose meter and have done some random tests. Recently, two readings were elevated. Should I be concerned?

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My stepdaughter wets her pants and has gained a lot of weight in the past year. No one, to my knowledge, has tested her for diabetes. Do I need to take her to a specialist?

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My six year old was diagnosed when she was four years old, so I checked my five year old’s blood sugar. The result was 307. My pediatrician sent us to the ER. Her blood sugar in the ER was down to 99. Is it possible that this is the very beginning stages of Type 1 diabetes, and we just have caught it extremely early?

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My son has been urinating a lot recently and has been complaining of aches. My doctor doesn’t want to test him for diabetes. Should I insist he do so?

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I am a 25 year old male (6 feet 5 inches tall, 200 pounds) who was diagnosed with diabetes about a month ago, but my doctor has yet to determine what type of diabetes I have. Do you have any insight as to what type of diabetes I have?

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When diagnosed with diabetes, my son’s antibody levels were all normal. Could he have some form of diabetes other than type 1?

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According to my doctor, my A1c was 5.6 and my fasting blood sugar was 123 mg/dl [6.8 mmol/L]. She said I might have diabetes or I might not. I’m confused. What is she talking about?

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I’ve taken him to see his physician and he says if it were diabetes, that he could not have symptoms for such a long time without becoming extremely sick, so there was no need to do any testing. Is it possible for a young child to have a “mild” case of diabetes?

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My physician stated that I could be in a honeymoon phase, but she never diagnosed me as actually having a diabetes. She told me to come back for a check up later, gave me a glucose meter, and told me to check it whenever I felt bad. Does a honeymoon phase precede diabetes? Are my blood sugars usually indicative of diabetes? If so, would it be type 1 or type 2?

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When she was diagnosed with type 1 recently, my daughter had a very high blood sugar. She had symptoms, but said she felt fine. How could this be?

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