Thank you for the link - I use WebMD a lot for my high blood pressure questions - never thought to go there for diabetes (go figure!). questions... I've also been reading a little more - apparently liver inflammation can indicate a pre-diabetic state, but I can't find anywhere that says that the liver is really involved in diabetes.

It sounds more like a form of hepatitis to me - and I can understand someone not wanting to say, "Oh, and I've got hepatitis, too" because of the assumption that the person now has an 'STD' or is a needle-user.