| Welcome Tinkster! Glad you found the forums.
An A1C test (showing 90 day blood sugar averages) should give you the definitive answers you're looking for.
Before being diagnosed, i'd wake up at night with racing heart and sweating, with overall anxiety. I do remember having several nighttime leg cramps that would cause me to awaken in pain. I still have these on occasion, though not as often.
Always best to know for sure if something is going on. You know your own body, and you obviously feel things aren't right. With your family and personal history, i'd definitely get things checked out. Let us know how it goes....and if you do have diabetes, we're here to help.
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 | 
