For some types of diabetes, they can do urine tests, but it's not very common. They are currently testing out saliva and breath tests to try to diagnose many diseases, but generally you have to get blood drawn.
It's not so bad. You usually will get a fasting plasma glucose test and then a glucose tolerance test. I believe that when they do the fasting plasma glucose test, they'll use that same blood for the A1c, but I'm not sure. The glucose tolerance test is the worse, as you have to chug nasty syrup (think the stuff that is mixed with carbonation at fast food joints to make soda fountain drinks) in 30 minutes or so... and then get poked a couple of times after varying intervals.
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TTC
My daily meds:
2000mg Metformin, 150 mcg Synthroid
1000 mg Fish Oils, Nature Made Multi for Her (with Iron and Calcium), Calcet triple calcium with vit d, 250 mg Magnesium, Bayer Aspirin, 500 mcg sublingual B-12
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