I should know this

[Hazel]

But I need your opinion please

I was at my GP this morning, she dipped my urine (infection?), and she hmm, there is sugar in your urine.
But my reading was 5.3 this morning.

Do all diabetics have sugar in their urine, irrespective of reading?

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Do all diabetics have sugar in their urine, irrespective of reading?

No. (At least, when I was first diagnosed the only home monitoring used was urine testing, and the desired result was no glucose. (Meaning that my blood glucose wasn't way too high.)) As you know, there's at least one medication that works by allowing glucose through at a lower than normal level. The level at which it's excreted is variable. I expect there's a bunch of possible reasons for sugar in the urine, and as usual a single result doesn't mean anything.

 

[Robin]

But I need your opinion please

I was at my GP this morning, she dipped my urine (infection?), and she hmm, there is sugar in your urine.
But my reading was 5.3 this morning.

Do all diabetics have sugar in their urine, irrespective of reading?

Are you still on the Empagliflozin listed in your signature? If so, your GP shouldn’t have been in the least surprised that there’s sugar in your urine, because that’s the whole point of it, it lowers blood glucose by preventing the kidneys from reabsorbing sugar, which is excreted in the urine instead.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

That’s a very useful snippet from @Robin!

the other thing that occurred to me is that glucose in urine takes much longer to respond than capillary blood, so that blood may have returned to ‘normal’ while there’s still glucose being processed by the kidneys?

 

[Hazel]

That’s a very useful snippet from @Robin!

That could be it as I overdid the mince pies and choc over Christmas.

Been good though since, hence numbers down

That could be true as I had way too

the other thing that occurred to me is that glucose in urine takes much longer to respond than capillary blood, so that blood may have returned to ‘normal’ while there’s still glucose being processed by the kidneys?

Yes still on it.