My life has turned into Mystery Diagnosis (long)

MinM

I have been spending so much time with Dr. HS our admin asked me if I was sleeping with him. To which I  responded, "I WISH!!!"

I went to Dr. HS to get some blood tested per another one of my dr's request. He did a routine CBC and my b12 (to make sure my injections are doing their jobs). I come back a few days later to get the results and he prints them out, looks at them, and says, "Oh no."

My random glucose level was 226, which is diagnostic of insulin dependent diabetes. For me, it would be Type 1, seeing as I am 5'7" and weigh 125lbs. This all is tres weird because I have NO symptoms - aside from getting really shaky and mean when I am too hungry. <- FWIW, I thought everyone was like this.

He draws another sample and that comes back at 120 (which is normal - anything over 200 is problematic). So, he has the previous sample retested, it comes back 225. WTF? Did some igmo drop a jolly rancher in my blood sample. (being a data person I asked for all of my previous values and they have all been in the 80 - 120 range, so I think this 226 BS is some weird outlier).

The next step would be to do a glucose tolerance test (which I know about because of all you preggos). Dr. HS doesn't want to put me through that because, as he put it, he "would swear in court" that I don't have diabetes. He thinks someone jacked with the sample.

You guys, I know I am not in same position as Ww, but I have spent the last week freaking thefuck out.  I really, really don't want diabetes (not that anyone who has it is super stoked about the situation). Dr. HS wants me to come back next week, after eating exactly what I ate before the wonkly sample and we'll test it again.

Here's to hoping some stupid lab tech in Tulsa jacked with my blood.

zsazsa-stl

That is crazy.  Me thinks your sample was switched with someone else's blood.

6fsn

I hope everything comes back okay, but the tolerance test isn't that big of a deal.  Why would he try to recreate the number instead of just doing the tolerance test? 

Paulo's Menina Bela

The tolerance test is only a PITA if you have to do the 3 hour. Sounds like that 226 was a fluke, or samples were mixed up like Zsa said. It could happen.

MinM

6 - the tolerance test is more for diagnosing type 2 and gestastional diabetes. He wants to take the path of least resistance first.

TheDuckis

FWIW, back when I was in college I was tested for all kinds of things thanks to my kidney stones. I had a couple blood samples come back with really high glucose. But then they realized I was stocking up on Dum Dum lollypops at the dr's office, then immediately going to get my blood tested. So if you had anything really sugary right before that one test, that's probably what it was.

MinM

I had Jack in the Box - sourdough jack combo meal with curly fries and a diet coke. He said to eat the same thing again before he tests me next week. He said one time he TRIED to get his high and ate a bunch of pancakes with syrup and he couldn't get it up (dirty) that high.

loveshine1

Wow. What a mess.

I hope you don't have it. It's a pain to have to go through all these tests, but hopefully it's just a fluke.

hmonkey

i think it's a fluke too.

if dr. hs asks you to fitb, that's a fluke too.

baconsmom

I thought type one was "childhood onset" and type two was "adult onset", not "fatty fatty two-by-four disease", considering that skinny people get it all the time. 

I'm just quibbling. I don't want you to have the diabeetus either. 

MinM

hmo - if i could get anywhere near anything sexual with dr. hs, i'd be on it in a hot second. h knows this.

bmom - 95% of the cases of type 2 diabetes are attriibuted to obesity (according to the CDC).