Diabetic review - can a test result be with held until seeing a nurse.

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Hi,

I had two viles of blood taken well over 48 hours ago and only had partial results entered on the nhs app. Unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of the form and went up to health centre where results are normally back in day.

I don’t know if this means the service that checks my blood was one of the trusts caught up in the diabetic faulty equipment query as in 5 years of all the blood reviews it seems I’ve never had missing results like I’m experiencing now. There is no category this time for Harmoglobin A1C level like I had in January this year.

Can the surgery with hold these results?

Sorry? I don’t understand

It takes anything up to 5 w days for all my results to go onto the app and they come back in dribs and drabs, usually the A1C numbers come in first then liver and kidney then lipids, but often on different days,

The Lab that had the errors has been identified and all people whose results are in question have been contacted to be re-tested. If you haven’t been contacted you weren’t affected. It was one lab, I think 7 trusts affected.

So youu think rather than the results being lost or delayed that the surgery has deliberately withheld them?

I doubt it. They gave you one so why not the other one too? Why are you panicking about this? Why do you think I they would prevent youu getting the results?

Thanks it has never taken more than a day for full results to show on patient access or nhs app.

In February I was taken off Metformin after long term use as a diabetic in remission according to test results at that time, no one would listen that had the private weight loss medication became my diabetic medication. I become very ill less then 2 months later and the surgeon who before taking me into theatre heavily queries I am a diabetic and treated me like some delusional person. I don’t understand it myself how I was let out of hospital a few months ago if this diabetes is/isn’t up in the air. The surgeon has recently wrote to the GP surgery calling me a diabetic and I genuinely don’t know who to believe.

I need answers to let organisations know who I go to for private meds.

The surgery have just sent a snotty reminder that I am ignoring a review request but I am not, yet when I got though I am told there is a wait to see diabetic nurse so I guess it will all come out end of month.

I haven’t been called for a flu vaccine this year so can only think they work on presuming diabetes is in remission.

Diabetes remission just means your HbA1C has been below the diabetes threshold on 2 concurrent tests, it doesn’t mean you’re cured and you will always be at risk of becoming actively diabetic with uncontrolled sugars.

I haven’t had a flu invite yet either, I know diabetics have been removed from the Covid vaccine programme not sure if the same stands for flu.

Ok thanks I’m partly glad I attended all appointments in the presence of a witness.

Yes my fault I just didn’t understand how I would always have to refer to being a diabetic when in remission and to all intense purposes being of nhs medication.

If only we could all have your disgusting attitude.

FWIW I haven’t been called for a flu vaccination appt yet and I haven’t multiple diseases including emphysema , our GP this year is doing them by age so my husband has already been invited and booked in despite him having no qualifying markers aside from age . My blood results also never appear in a day or often even 48 hrs .

Yes it is ok I really don’t expect them to call me up for flu as the excuse will be before coming close to sepsis I was bringing muck up and felt so flu-ey.Whilst equally angry someone basks in the glory of telling someone they are in remission but failing to say what this means.

it is more never seeing this on paper and trusting someone’s word which I now feel very trapped by and who would accept it.

This is a good set of info about remission

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/type-2-diabetes/remission/what-is-type-2-diabetes-remission

Diabetics are still eligible for flu vaccine

Are they oh wow.

normally I’m called July until the September.

In earlier years I have normally had the flu injection by or booked by now. The latest ever was a November and this was only because the now gone pharmacist allowed an injection allowed ann injection to kept being rescheduled unusually late in 2022.