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- Type of diabetes
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I was diagnosed T2 on an emergency admission to my local hospital. I have had an elective transfemoral amputation of my left leg due to osteomyelitis in tibia and femur near the knee and the stump became badly infected from no obvious source. The staff nurse on the ward I was admitted to routinely tests for diabetes and I tested at 24. That meant nothing to me but I was put on Metformin and told I would get a visit from the diabetes nurse. She turned up 3 weeks later on the day I was discharged to write the Government mantra on the discharge form (T2, do not test).
During my stay the nurses tested before and after each meal and I set about lowering the numbers. My trusty IPad and a window close to a phone tower gave me google access to the internet and I found Diabetes UK and then diabetes.co.uk as well as the Diet Doctor. I realised that the menus I was filling in each day were poison even though they were marked as suitable for diabetics. So I ditched the potatoes, pasta, rice, bread and cereals and just drank tea and water, and ate eggs and picked out the meat. That got my finger pricks down to around 7 at the time of release.
My GP practice added Metformin to my online prescription renewal and that has been the total involvement of a doctor. After 3 months I got a blood test to learn my first HbA1C from the DN which was 45 and my feet checked but turned up on the wrong day for the retinopathy test. My DN was happy with my diet control and knew about LCHF. A year later my second HbA1C is 41 and I did get a retinopathy test this year.
Who needs doctors? I shall carry on my own sloppy dieting. Let them tick their boxes and I’ll get all I need from the Internet.
My treatment at the rehab centre is first class in comparison. I learned last time how to stand up unaided after a fall when walking with my prosthesis. I just went and asked and was immediately shown by a physio what to do. She also advised me that falling was not a good idea.
Hi @JohnR127
it should be sad, for what has happened ...but it's one of those stories that inspires,
that a person can pick themselves through that midfield of bad advice and still recover enough to save and enrich their own lives, with their own efforts.
Shouldn't be that way, but i do take my hat off to you for the way you coped with it all, and turned it around.
Respect.