Need advice as I'm concerned I'm being lied to
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I am fighting with the VA for an agent orange disability. I have several symptoms from it but am being denied due to not having type 11 diabetes. I have a constant thirst, extreme urge to urinate, have eye problems, have been diagnosed with severe poly neuopathy, a simple cut takes months to heal. My weight goes up and down like a roller coaster, have istemic heart disease and have had a heart attack with a stint inserted, always have a high white blood count. But I'm told the blood test show "I DON'T" have diabetes. I keep asking how can this be and never get an appropriate answer. Is there some kind of doctor who can really specialize in diagnosing this or am I just going to continue?
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Although polyneuropathy is connected with diabetes, you would have had to have diabetes for a long time for it to be the cause. diabetic retinopathy can be caused by diabetes, other eye problems usually not. I have uveitis which is not caused by diabetes, in fact it predisposed me to diabetes. Weight gain is common with diabetes but fluctuating weight is not. Heart disease can be exacerbated by diabetes but there are other causes as is also the case with systemic heart disease. You really do need to have tests to see if there is an underlying cause of them all, but there may not be. Altogether I have 14 different health conditions, some related to the 10 different medications I am on, some related to family history, some related to each other eg osteoarthritis because of polio. At least three of these though just happened with no obvious reason. When I get new symptoms I often wonder what the underlying cause eg at the moment I have been getting palpitations, tachycardia, bradycardia, nausea, fatigue, lightheadness which I thought for sure was heart disease but apparently is not. So I still do not know the cause though I still have the symptoms.
best wishes in trying to find the cause. Do get an independent blood test.
gill