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Most of the time when people come to this web site they have figured out the answer and just want assurance that they are not crazy. They don't need someone insulting them. They need encouragement to go seek the medical attention they feel they need.
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Precisely, which is why the advice is 'if you're not sure, see a doctor'.
We can help people who think they have a problem. We can help people who know they have a problem. What we can't do is look at a list of symptoms someone lists in a post and then confirm whether or not they have diabetes. That's the whole point of this thread - it's telling people to seek assurance from a source that can give them a guaranteed answer.
This protects us all from the worst case scenarios of telling someone with diabetes that they don't have the condition and don't need treatment, and telling someone without diabetes that they do have the condition.
