Your story sounds really awful. I’ve never been screened for diabetes myself but after doing the research for these articles I thought that proper screening would be standard medical practice. As you mention there are many other factors which could be affecting your blood sugar levels. You would expect a trained doctor to know this and to investigate further before prescribing insulin.

Hopefully, cases like yours are a minority and most doctors do fully investigate the cause of high glucose levels in the blood before prescribing insulin and before diagnoising patients with diabetes. Otherwise this situation is very worrying indeed.

I wanted to mention that the doctors need to be more careful while screening you for diabetes. While in the hospital, over two years ago, they said I was a diabetic, and started giving me insulin. They really didn’t do any of the pre-screening, as you have stated here. My blood sugar was just up, but they never did check why it was. I went home with my insulin, and took it one morning while my visiting nurse was there, and my blood sugar dropped to almost coma level. Good thing she was there!

Anyways what happened, is the doctor didn’t take into consideration that they had been feeding me fluids because I couldn’t eat. I hadn’t eaten in weeks, so they had decided to feed me with intravenous fluids. Well, there just happen to be lots and lots of sugar in this stuff, and apparently it made me a diabetic while I was taking it. Therefore, pre-testing is always good to do!

As for MonaVie totally agree with you there. Honesty, is the best policy when it comes to reviews. By promoting a product that you don’t believe in you are betraying the faith your readers have in you.

BTW – thanks for the feedback on my site. I was actually approached by I think a rep to talk about MonaVie and I don’t think they recieved the review they were hoping for – but I cannot in good faith go against my professional judgement.