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Old 09-22-2007, 09:43 PM
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I agree that with the GTT, your fasting glucose should be taken beforehand and that subsequent checks should occur no less than once an hour. This was the only thing that showed I had diabetes. My fasting levels were exemplary, but the numbers shot way up after I drank the liquid and didn't come down for two more hours.

I don't know much about reflexes and their meaning, but I had a reflex test on Tuesday. One knee had no reflex at all and the other was so exaggerated that I nearly kicked the doctor! Neither of us were expecting that.

I've had the same experience with neurologists three times now. Each time that I failed to have an easily diagnosed ailment, the neurologist would decide to send me to a shrink to check for depression or somatoform disorder. The first shrink told me and the neurologist that I was mentally healthy, the second occasion I did not follow up, and the third time I had a neuropsyche exam that showed more problems with cognitive dysfunction than with depression.

Hope you can at least get prediabetes ruled out.

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