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Hi im new here and well I have a bit of a problem
I have been experiencing symptoms of diabetes for 3 weeks now with some days the symptoms are not that bad whilst others are a nightmare. I have been experiencing increased thirst and urination and hunger which fluctuates day to day, I am getting increasingly tiered and have lost 2 kilos. Sometimes I get dizzy sleeps and I always have a constant headache that never seems to want to go away. Feel very thirsty right after i drink something so now I have just learnt to ignore it although sometimes it gets a bit to much!!
Went to the go last week and I had a random blood sugar test which came out to be 9.1 and the go sent me for a blood test and I will receive the results on Tuesday hopefully!!! I am just wondering if it could be diabetes as I heard that the symptoms have to get increasingly worse but with me some days are better than others.
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I shouldn't be at all surprised if you are diabetic - even Type 1 (which is what you have most likely got at your age and with those symptoms) creeps up over a few weeks or months, although it is quicker than Type 2 for the symptoms to appear - it never happens that suddenly.

When you can until you get the test results DO drink as much plain tap water as you need - because when the body has excess glucose floating round the bloodstream, it's designed to flush as much as it can out in our pee. If it isn't flushed, it gradually starts affecting other parts of our body - so getting rid of it as much as possible is essential. However, if you haven't got diabetes, drinking more water for a bit won't hurt anything else anyway.

To begin with in Type 1 diabetes, the body does produce insulin in fits and bursts, so feeling different every day is 'normal'.

Nobody on here can actually diagnose you with anything including diabetes, so don't take my word for it obviously - just wait for the results and see what the 'Plan' for you is - whether it's D or not you clearly aren't fully OK so 'something else' will need to be investigated anyway.

Let us know what happens on Tuesday please - and if you have joined the Club - if we can help, we will!
 
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