I've posted once before RE a health issue and I'm now wanting opinions on something related but I'll give you a condensed background first;
I'm early 30's, I've not had children yet and for the last number of months I have been "out of sorts".... Fatigue, severe bone pain (both hands/arms, left knee, left collarbone, chest area, upper back), wheezing (from my throat), a relentless cough, intense pain on the bone behind my left ear and a growing firm lump, tingling sensations etc. I've also been bleeding between periods mostly without pain and recently I've had a few nosebleeds and the top knuckle on my middle finger (left hand) has been swollen for 5-6 weeks and there is a hard lump growing under the skin on the palm side. I have broken blood vessels appearing all over my skin, upper arms, stomach, thighs etc and I had a number of tiny red blood dots on my chest and face but they have since cleared.
Anyway I'd been seeing my GP; Initially she diagnosed me as asthmatic (I don't agree), she put me on an inhaler and ordered blood tests. The tests mostly came back clear other than my white cell count, it was slightly higher than normal.
She put me on antibiotics which didn't help, so she then put me on a different antibiotic and a course of steroids. None of this helped! I was booked in to have a smear test (twice) both of which were cancelled by the nurse because she understandably couldn't do it when I was bleeding. (I am now bleeding from my bum too on and off).
My GP then tested for thyroid issues and for diabetes (I was tested for diabetes over a year ago as I have a family history and it was fine).... This time the results came back as "borderline" for an underactive thyroid and a "slight concern" with blood glucose so I was told to do a fasting blood test and that result came back as 7.4, I then had to do another fasting test which came back at 9.8 - I got frustrated with the GP never making eye contact with me when I was talking to her, she literally spent every consultation staring at her phone/computer so I went to a different doctor.
The new GP wanted to retest for diabetes but using a different test (HbA1c test), thyroid and a number of other things (This was quite recent). I also had a urine test. The GP phoned me on Thursday to say the HbA1c was "consistent with diabetes" and my thyroid is "definitely low, not borderline" but my urine sample didn't have glucose/ketones in it. We had a brief conversation and he asked me to book an appointment to come back to see him.
The thing is I'm not overweight and there's no sign of glucose etc in my urine but my doctor seemed on the phone to be leaning towards a type 2 diagnosis - Other than my grandmother and aunt having had diabetes I don't really have any of the other risk factors seemingly associated and they were type 1. I'm not ignorant or judgemental, I know that diabetes does not only affect people with weight issues.
Still I'm uncomfortable with the diagnosis and after hours spent researching on Google there's a lot of conflicting information; Granted most of my symptoms fit perfectly with both diabetes/thyroid problems but I can't find anything about bone pain being prevalent with either (and it's this pain that worries me the most).
I think my concern is that diabetes/thyroid is what has been latched onto because it's the most obvious given the blood results. Would I be unreasonable to ask the doctor to be referred for an MRI? He did look at the swelling on my hand and the lump behind my ear and said at the time he would wait for the blood results before deciding what course of action to take but I'm worried he will casually gloss over it now that it looks like I'm diabetic.
Would I be rude to ask him to do a third test to definitely be certain of a diabetic status? I don't want to be pushy but I can't stop thinking what if something is missed and I don't have "health anxiety" before someone kindly suggests it (Lol).