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Yes.

ANY doctor can order the test.

Obstetricians will often order the diabetes testing in order to avoid or control Gestational Diabetes.

If the OB won;t do it, then ask you Family Doctor to do it.

Your OB should do a routine diabetes test when you are pregnant.

If not, find a new OB fast !

No they cant but even my doctor doesn't check but they arrange appointment at clinic for blood test every 6 months because I am type 2 diabetic but you were checked out 1 year ago and all was clear and if you think the thirst and peeing is connected to diabetes it would mean years of untreated diabetes so you don't have that - as I said I am diabetic but never thirsty and sometimes I can get up once during the night to pee but I put that own to being older at 61

Any general practitioner (your doctor included) should be willing to check for diabetes. If yours is not willing, you have several choices:

1) If you really like your doctor and want to stay with him/her, ask again and if the answer is again "no," say "What would happen if it turned out I do have diabetes but nothing was done about it and something terrible happened to me?". That should get him/her thinking about either the right thing to do being to test you or that they could be sued if they refused to check you out and you suffered because of it.

2) Go to another General Practitioner (doctor who treats everything). Most will check for this if you are showing symptoms like that.

3) An Endocrinologist is a doctor specializing in the chemical/hormonal things that can go wrong in your body, such as not producing enough insulin, which would cause diabetes. Find an endocrinologist who does not insist that you be referred by your regular doctor.

4) An obstetrician usually does check for diabetes in pregnant women, but would not do it routinely for everyone. Since almost all obstetricians are also gynecologists, who specialize in and test for problems specific to women, your gynecologist might consent to test you for diabetes even though that is not a specific problem with women, because if you're already there being checked out for other things and what you say to them makes them suspect diabetes, they would probably feel responsible to get that checked out.

Your best bet at this point, I would say, is to go to an endocrinologist.

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