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<blockquote data-quote="GraceK" data-source="post: 332960" data-attributes="member: 47233"><p>Thanks Cath ... I've just emailed him ... :x I feel better now.</p><p></p><p>This is what I wrote - </p><p></p><p>"I am so angry at your off the cuff comment about diabetics and doughnuts for breakfast.</p><p></p><p>I'm a recently diagnosed T2 diabetic, who, over the past 2 decades has been diagnosed with everything BUT what was really wrong with me. What a waste of NHS resources to be treated for a whole host of SYMPTOMS but not be diagnosed with the CAUSE for over 20 years.</p><p></p><p>I don't drink. I don't smoke and I don't eat doughnuts for breakfast and never have done. But I still got diabetes and had I been diagnosed earlier, I'd have had a good 2 decades without various complications developing and been less of a drain on the NHS. I might still be capable of holding down a decent job, I might still be married and I might still own my own house. But undiagnosed medical conditions lead to health problems and they lead to financial problems. </p><p></p><p>How do I know that I was misdiagnosed? I know because in just 3 months since diagnosis of diabetes and getting THE RIGHT TREATMENT and support from a forum of diabetics, I feel better than I have for years. Prior to that I was booking my funeral.</p><p></p><p>And by the way, it's actually potatoes, bread, rice, pasta, etc that my Islets of Langerhans can't cope with.</p><p></p><p>Apparently, there are thousands of undiagnosed diabetics out there developing severe complications as we speak. Could that be due to ineffective diagnostic criteria and apathy within the NHS regarding changing it.</p><p></p><p>They're not all fat greedy people who shove doughnuts down their faces for breakfast. Intense hunger is actually one of the many symptoms of diabetes. </p><p></p><p>Why don't you address the issue of the<strong> ridiculous diagnostic criteria for </strong>conditions like diabetes and thyroid which actually cost the NHS far more due to incorrect diagnoses and their various treatments? Wrong diagnoses also cause loss of lives. By the way, would cigarette smoking lung cancer patients and alcoholic cirrhosis patients be singled out so disgracefully as diabetics have been. Or do you have to be more careful about insulting them because the Government gets a great wad of tax from flogging alcohol and cigarettes to the general public ... subjecting them to addiction and some awful medical conditions. </p><p></p><p>Why don't you recommend that the Government acts responsibly in the first place and stops drug pushing to the public? To my knowledge there is no nutritional value whatsoever in cigarettes and alcohol but the addictive chemicals they contain make them a good source of revenue don't they?</p><p></p><p>I don't think the medical profession knows the first thing about what causes diabetes, they only THINK they know and some of the advice given and comments made to diabetics by health care professionals are totally inappropriate and unwarranted.</p><p></p><p>If you want to learn more about the real causes of diabetes I suggest you look at this ...</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/index.php" target="_blank">index.php</a></p><p></p><p>That website and the people on it SAVED MY LIFE, not the NHS.</p><p></p><p>Members of this forum are all HUMAN BEINGS living with and learning from the condition and from each other and it's quite possible that some of us know more than our doctors and specialist nurses where diabetes is concerned - we HAVE TO KNOW - because our lives depend on it. </p><p></p><p>Real professionals realise that learning doesn't stop when you pass an exam or get a pay rise, and listening to PATIENTS is PARAMOUNT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GraceK, post: 332960, member: 47233"] Thanks Cath ... I've just emailed him ... :x I feel better now. This is what I wrote - "I am so angry at your off the cuff comment about diabetics and doughnuts for breakfast. I'm a recently diagnosed T2 diabetic, who, over the past 2 decades has been diagnosed with everything BUT what was really wrong with me. What a waste of NHS resources to be treated for a whole host of SYMPTOMS but not be diagnosed with the CAUSE for over 20 years. I don't drink. I don't smoke and I don't eat doughnuts for breakfast and never have done. But I still got diabetes and had I been diagnosed earlier, I'd have had a good 2 decades without various complications developing and been less of a drain on the NHS. I might still be capable of holding down a decent job, I might still be married and I might still own my own house. But undiagnosed medical conditions lead to health problems and they lead to financial problems. How do I know that I was misdiagnosed? I know because in just 3 months since diagnosis of diabetes and getting THE RIGHT TREATMENT and support from a forum of diabetics, I feel better than I have for years. Prior to that I was booking my funeral. And by the way, it's actually potatoes, bread, rice, pasta, etc that my Islets of Langerhans can't cope with. Apparently, there are thousands of undiagnosed diabetics out there developing severe complications as we speak. Could that be due to ineffective diagnostic criteria and apathy within the NHS regarding changing it. They're not all fat greedy people who shove doughnuts down their faces for breakfast. Intense hunger is actually one of the many symptoms of diabetes. Why don't you address the issue of the[b] ridiculous diagnostic criteria for [/b]conditions like diabetes and thyroid which actually cost the NHS far more due to incorrect diagnoses and their various treatments? Wrong diagnoses also cause loss of lives. By the way, would cigarette smoking lung cancer patients and alcoholic cirrhosis patients be singled out so disgracefully as diabetics have been. Or do you have to be more careful about insulting them because the Government gets a great wad of tax from flogging alcohol and cigarettes to the general public ... subjecting them to addiction and some awful medical conditions. Why don't you recommend that the Government acts responsibly in the first place and stops drug pushing to the public? To my knowledge there is no nutritional value whatsoever in cigarettes and alcohol but the addictive chemicals they contain make them a good source of revenue don't they? I don't think the medical profession knows the first thing about what causes diabetes, they only THINK they know and some of the advice given and comments made to diabetics by health care professionals are totally inappropriate and unwarranted. If you want to learn more about the real causes of diabetes I suggest you look at this ... [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/index.php]index.php[/url] That website and the people on it SAVED MY LIFE, not the NHS. Members of this forum are all HUMAN BEINGS living with and learning from the condition and from each other and it's quite possible that some of us know more than our doctors and specialist nurses where diabetes is concerned - we HAVE TO KNOW - because our lives depend on it. Real professionals realise that learning doesn't stop when you pass an exam or get a pay rise, and listening to PATIENTS is PARAMOUNT. [/QUOTE]
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