Last year my doctor wanted me to have a fasting blood test for diabetes, I cant remember why, but I cancelled it because of one thing and another. I have had really poor health for a few years now as I have fibromyalgia.
In February, I had my gall bladder out due to large gall stones. The wound didnt heal that quickly and I had to go back to the doctor because of this. We discussed how I had had the same problem after my hysterectomy. I went back to the doctors, saw a different doctor today about thrush and the first thing he said was that he wanted me to have the fasting blood test as repeated thrush is a symptom of diabetes. I am going to go ahead with the test this time as I have been feeling rubbish for ages and I thought you never know this might be it. But then I thought, well if I had diabetes wouldnt they have picked it up in hospital when I had my gall bladder out? I was admitted as an emergency and in for about a week in all, had urine tests and several blood tests. You would have thought if I had diabetes it would have shown up at least in the ward's routine urine test. By the way, yes Im overweight and middle aged so I suppose Im high risk for this.
What do you think? Wouldnt it have shown up in routine tests at the hospital?