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My son is 30 years old. He is not a complainer. He has the symptoms of type 2 diabetes. He has been to a couple different doctors and they can find nothing wrong except a possible pinched nerve. He has another appt on Tuesday. What do we need to do to get a diabetes test on Tuesday? This has been going on for a while
Hello dear I understand your concern Very happy to help you and your concern regarding the diabetes. Following are the tests that useful to diagnose diabetes. 1. Fasting blood sugar (>=126 mg/dl to diagnose diabetes on two occasion) 2. 2 hour post meal sugar (>=200 mg/dl to diagnose diabetes on two occasion) 3. Or either 1 and 2 on the single day/occasion. Along with this 4. Glycated haemoglobin should be greater than 6.5%. (give idea of past 2 month blood glucose level). 5. Serum insulin and C-peptide also useful to diagnose the diabetes. Do regular exercise and take healthy diet Stay healthy Hope this may help you
Contact HCM for further health query Best regards Dr. Sagar
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Hello dear I understand your concern Very happy to help you and your concern regarding the diabetes. Following are the tests that useful to diagnose diabetes. 1. Fasting blood sugar ( =126 mg/dl to diagnose diabetes on two occasion) 2. 2 hour post meal sugar ( =200 mg/dl to diagnose diabetes on two occasion) 3. Or either 1 and 2 on the single day/occasion. Along with this 4. Glycated haemoglobin should be greater than 6.5%. (give idea of past 2 month blood glucose level). 5. Serum insulin and C-peptide also useful to diagnose the diabetes. Do regular exercise and take healthy diet Stay healthy Hope this may help you Contact HCM for further health query Best regards Dr. Sagar