Does this sound like Hyperglycemia?

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For the past couple of months I have had incredibly dry mouth even though I’m drinking around 3 to 4 litres of water a day, extreme fatigue, sleeping 8 plus hours then still napping for 2 hours in the day and constantly feeling tired, feeling nauseous in between meals but better once I eat and heart palpitations.

I went to the doctors for the heart palpitations and he ordered bloods and an ecg. This morning I got a call from the doctors surgery saying I have to go in for further bloods tomorrow morning as my blood test showed high glucose levels.

I had ate around an hour before my blood test yesterday. Do you think that could effect the results? Could this be nothing?

You will have to find out if they measured your long term bloods. I'm assuming it was because you weren't fasting beforehand.

on the surface your symptoms suggest diabetes. Excessive thirst, tiredness are symptoms and along with high glucose levels I can understand why you need to have further bloods taken.

Are your next ones fasting?

Yes the test tomorrow morning is the hba1c test so will fast!

Just hoping it's nothing as those are the only symptoms I have had above, haven't lost weight or been urinating a lot. I would think if it was diabetes I would be very ill.

Hopefully the results come back fine and you get to the bottom of what is wrong.

One of my dc has type one and he wasn't 'ill' when diagnosed in spite of his glucose level being 29 when he was admitted (normal is 4-7). But he was drinking a lot and urinating excessively.

Not sure of your age but hopefully Dr will also check hormone levels.

@mrscampbellblackagain I stupidly didn't ask for my levels so have no idea if they are slightly high or very high. I think if very high though I would be sent to the hospital. I am 28. Wow, your son's was really high

Hopefully it is just they were taken too close to you eating. As my DC knows the hba1c is the test that reveals the truth, no hiding his levels with that one

Good luck!

Fasting makes no difference to your HbA1c as this looks at your average blood sugar over the last three months but will make a difference to you current blood sugar result.

@newbathroomforme ahh that makes sense!

Mine was 24 when I was diagnosed with type 1 age 10. I was drinking a lot but otherwise wasn’t ‘ill’, playing in the garden etc like normal. My mum was also type 1 so picked it up from the more minor symptoms. I think at the start the body sort of sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t so you don’t always go from fine to ill like you would more rapidly once you’ve had it a while and left it untreated to the same levels, but you would want to get it sorted quickly.

Could be type 1, although would expect you to be weeing a lot. You don’t have to very ill on diagnosis - depends how quickly you catch it (I missed all the signs so my poor DS was at death’s door!). Try not to worry - we console ourselves with the fact that as diseases go, it is manageable. There are worse things to have.

Does spund very similar to DS when he was diagnosed with T1, he was weeing a lot though.

See if anything I'd think it would be type 2 as I have PCOS and my diet is shocking tbh.