Angry Pre-Diabetic now full-blown T2.

[Neicy0412]

I am T1, when I was diagnosed 15 years ago there was loads of help and support for me. I think it is shocking that you have received so little support, I would have thought doctors would be delighted to treat anyone who wants to help themselves not tell them to stop, shocking, just shocking.

[hanadr]

Lynda
your DSN cannot forbid you to self test. It's YOUR choice, but I suppose she might make some things awkward for you.
if it becomes a real problem
Contact the Diabetes UK Careline and ask for support. They deal with loads of cases every year. Plus they have a set of info sheets on self testing and an advocacy department.
Hana

[hanadr]

PS
test strips are much cheaper from the suppliers. Abbott Diabetes Care, who supply The Freestyle metes among others, Provide a superb service to patients. I didn't find Bayer as good and they are the only ones I've tried.
Hana

[LyndaC]

Thanks guys - a real help as usual

[Unbeliever]

Its so sad, the missed opportunity to really get people on the right track and to avoid further damage to the pancreas.

It would be better to offer no dietary advice at all han tto advise them to eat MORE carbs.It is only natural for most newly diagnosed diabetics {T2 ] to believe that the HCPs know SOMETHIBG about the disease but , as many of us know this is not always the case.
We can't quite accept it for a while and before we know it find ourselves on stronger meds with pancreas shot o bits.

if only th condition could be taken seriously and treated aggressively in the beginning , instead of the "nanny knows best " atitude.

So many of us feel at first that we will overcome this thing. if we were given the tools or info to do so who knows what could happen?

Had someone offered me a chance o do the Newcasle diet on diagnosis I would gladly have done so and it would have been SO much better for me.

I speak as one who was given a meter and strips on diagnosis. Not that it helped much- we were told that we were testing purely
for the benefit of the Dr. I had to find his forum before i discovered the proper use of the meter.
It is really depressing hat HCPs are being paid to disseminate damaging advice.