• Can you test yourself for diabetes?

I am a 45 year old female. I wonder if you can test yourself for diabetes?

6 Answers

  • Family Practitioner
  • Atlanta, GA

Yes you can

  • Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  • Taylor, MI

Sure, ask your doctor to check your A1c or fasting sugar.

Ali A. Achira, MD

  • Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  • Tulsa, Oklahoma

No. It's a blood test.

  • Family Practitioner
  • Harrogate, TN

It is best you allow a health provider to test you. We do a glucose tolerance test, which is more accurate than urine strips. Also we day a hemoglobin A1C which is more informative on how severe your diabetes may be.

  • Family Practitioner
  • Newton, KS

If you have a glucometer to check your blood sugar, you sure can!

  • Endocrinology-Diabetes
  • Mount Hope, 20

Yes you can. Go to the pharmacy & buy, without a prescription, a urine test kit for sugar (glucose) & ketones. The kit will contain strips the you just "pee" on & they change color if glucose is present in the urine. There should be no sugar in the urine. If the test is positive or indeterminant, see a physician for blood testing. You can also buy a blood glucose meter & do a finger stick blood glucose test but this is more expensive & you would need some training on how to do the procedure. Good luck.

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