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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1075981" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>Okay, you should never be recording these as Diabetes. The cause of these things is not Diabetes. Your GP is, if you'll forgive the term, a Dumbass.</p><p></p><p>You don't get flu because you have Diabetes. You are at risk, but you had flu, plain and simple. You and many others have the vaccination, and in a small percentage you get flu anyway. This is also not because of diabetes.</p><p></p><p>You were suffering stress. This caused your BG levels to fluctuate. This issue was, however stress, not Diabetes. </p><p></p><p>Your second illness (probably not true influenza, just a virus), was again, because you caught a virus and with your stress levels were likely to be slightly immune compromised. This wasn't because you have Diabetes either.</p><p></p><p>If your employer has all of these incidents recorded as Diabetes, then you are going to struggle. They perceive that Diabetes is affecting your ability t do your job, and even under the Equality Act, where they have made reasonable adjustments to fit in with you, that you have been unable to work for such a long period during the last year, they are making the assessment that your diabetes makes yo unable to do your job. </p><p></p><p>I think you may need to get your absences re-represented as what they really are on your record. That is likely to help. And never put illness down as due to Diabetes unless it is directly linked, such as ending up in hospital with DKA or caused by severe hypoglycaemia. </p><p></p><p>You are a person who gets ill just like anyone else. Diabetes is not the cause of everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 1075981, member: 30007"] Okay, you should never be recording these as Diabetes. The cause of these things is not Diabetes. Your GP is, if you'll forgive the term, a Dumbass. You don't get flu because you have Diabetes. You are at risk, but you had flu, plain and simple. You and many others have the vaccination, and in a small percentage you get flu anyway. This is also not because of diabetes. You were suffering stress. This caused your BG levels to fluctuate. This issue was, however stress, not Diabetes. Your second illness (probably not true influenza, just a virus), was again, because you caught a virus and with your stress levels were likely to be slightly immune compromised. This wasn't because you have Diabetes either. If your employer has all of these incidents recorded as Diabetes, then you are going to struggle. They perceive that Diabetes is affecting your ability t do your job, and even under the Equality Act, where they have made reasonable adjustments to fit in with you, that you have been unable to work for such a long period during the last year, they are making the assessment that your diabetes makes yo unable to do your job. I think you may need to get your absences re-represented as what they really are on your record. That is likely to help. And never put illness down as due to Diabetes unless it is directly linked, such as ending up in hospital with DKA or caused by severe hypoglycaemia. You are a person who gets ill just like anyone else. Diabetes is not the cause of everything. [/QUOTE]
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