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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Alien Aspie said:
Wasn't expecting this today. Just spoke to my GP about my lung function results and I'm now booked for a covid test at midday and being put back on steroids and anti-b's.

That's enough excitement for one day thank you ;)
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Best wishes, hoping all goes well
 
gennepher said:
The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.
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Time to change doctors. Hoping for a swift recovery for you.
 
HarryBeau said:
Just clearing up the debris it's the warfarin always a risk...really tired drained but feeling better than yesterday thanks...going to rest up this afternoon a Netflix day I think.
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You'll have to try a novel, Harrybeau.
They couldn't get my INR above 1.6 on Warfarin and I was on over 12mg per day. I am a super rat! :)
Tried Rivaroxaban and Apixaban and they upset my digestive system and had the screaming *****.
Been taking Dabigatran for some time now and its fine but low carb does not help bowels and slows them down.
D.
 
gennepher said:
The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.
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Sorry you had a bad experience but I have found the NHS variable. As Ian would say, A curates egg!
D.
 
good evening all :)

edited to add - 4.7 this morning :)

it turned into a really hot day here after a cool start to September 1st. ;)

Over to mum's at lunchtime to collect her shopping list and bearing fresh soup, we had a bit of a job to do outside her drive gate too.
Someone mr gee knows is working on and off with his digger along the road where they are building a new house and we've arranged for him to bring his little digger along and take the level down on a 6 foot stretch of the verge to the side of the gate and to add some gravel so that there is a longer area outside the gate to park on. With the postie and other delivery drivers parking up outside it tends to get very muddy in the Autumn and Winter and then the rain carries the soil down and blocks the drain resulting in a big pool of water at the end of the drive.

We needed to remove a couple of gorse bushes and what flippin' great roots they had! :sorry:

anyway, then we chilled out in the garden playing 'fetch' with Katy ;)

home again and we did a bit of strimming before dinner to take advantage of the good weather :) so now we're a touch 'forswonk' :D

Hope your day ends well :)


@Muddy Cyclist - lovely bonsai, very effective, so well balanced :)

@dunelm - I really like your trees and there is just enough in the foreground to fix them in the landscape and give scale :joyful:

@gennepher - amazing (and very quick), piece of art.
and many hugs for your horrible experience, I hope things are calming down for you now.

@HarryBeau - so glad you're home and things are settling down for you. You have my sympathy, I ended up in A+E with an extended nose bleed about 5 years ago, it's horrible and so stressful :sorry:

@Alien Aspie - hugs and fingers crossed for a good outcome.

Art bit -
thank you all for your compliments on my roses :)

here is another pic inspired by a photograph
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gennepher said:
How are you @Alien Aspie
Are you okay?
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It was a bit weird as I arrived at the testing site (a car park) to be told I had to go across the city. Once there I was handed a kit and told to do it myself, hopefully, I have done it right and I shall know in 3 days or so.

alf_Josiah said:
Best wishes, hoping all goes well
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Thank you, I actually feel ok apart from being a bit breathless.

geefull said:
hugs and fingers crossed for a good outcome.
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Cheers ;)
 
Krystyna23040 said:
@ianpspurs on the subject of soups and shakes I have just read the following quote from Dr Aseem Malhotra - who always talks a lot of sense. "to imply that ultra-processed low calorie soup and shakes is the best solution to reverse Type 2 Diabetes is misleading at best and deceitful at worst. Only a minority can tolerate such a restrictive diet beyond a few days".
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If that regime appeared in a Jason Fung book it would be the new orthodoxy on here:angelic:
 
gennepher said:
The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.
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Everything about that post is distressing just to read never mind be subjected to. I pray you make a full and speedy recovery. Your life is certainly eventful but not always in the best way.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
@ianpspurs on the subject of soups and shakes I have just read the following quote from Dr Aseem Malhotra - who always talks a lot of sense. "to imply that ultra-processed low calorie soup and shakes is the best solution to reverse Type 2 Diabetes is misleading at best and deceitful at worst. Only a minority can tolerate such a restrictive diet beyond a few days".
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No profit for peoples ' mates,' in just cooking real food, ...anyone can buy from a market/supermarket.

it's like those jane plans, etc.

a little bit of profit, from every sale goes a LONG way to make millions,
otherwise they wouldn't BE in business, would they..?

the answer to the T2D tsunami,..

( and even more so post covid, given long hail Covid cases are in the thousands,
and god knows what impact THAT will have over the years to come )

...isn't some ponzi scheme for our benevolent leaders
preferred companies, sponsors and friends

But an honest appraisal of what many on here, and worldwide have achieved with a simple adjustment to their diet.

Cost effective, simple & in balance with the clients needs.
seems a recipe for harmony and good business in the real world


WE are intolerant of carbs in the same way, the govt
are intolerant of sensible, balanced decision making,

Decisions that are GOOD to the health of the Nation,
SHOULD be a Govts PRIORITY, right
or is that being to naive ?

SO Why must EVERY decision THIS Govt make, seem to start with...
"How many millions will THIS make US "
 
gennepher said:
The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.
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oohh, @gennepher what an AWFUL day you had.

SO glad you are back home and Nurse Popeye will be on the case..

and how worrying "the doctors have left the building"....:wideyed:

wonder in how many surgeries... THIS is the case..:bag::banghead:

take care, .xx
 
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geefull said:
@gennepher - amazing (and very quick), piece of art.
and many hugs for your horrible experience, I hope things are calming down for you now.


Art bit -
thank you all for your compliments on my roses :)

here is another pic inspired by a photograph
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Thank you @geefull

Your painting is a great magnificent perspective. And a beautiful colour on the horizon.
 
ianpspurs said:
Everything about that post is distressing just to read never mind be subjected to. I pray you make a full and speedy recovery. Your life is certainly eventful but not always in the best way.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
It is like a very bad dream this afternoon.
I am dozing on and off at the moment.
 
jjraak said:
oohh, @gennepher what an AWFUL day you had.

SO glad you are back home and Nurse Popeye will be on the case..

and how worrying "the doctors have left the building"....:wideyed:

wonder in how many surgeries... THIS is the case..:bag::banghead:

take care, .xx
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I just don't understand @jjraak how this can be allowed to be.
I will be writing to my MP. An online friend is helping me compose a letter tomorrow.
How come this sudden deterioration in so much?
I know I was in a bad serious position this afternoon (which will take me a bit to recuperate from), but I could and still can, feel for that nurse who went to pieces because she had no medical back up on site.
 
gennepher said:
I just don't understand @jjraak how this can be allowed to be.
I will be writing to my MP. An online friend is helping me compose a letter tomorrow.
How come this sudden deterioration in so much?
I know I was in a bad serious position this afternoon (which will take me a bit to recuperate from), but I could and still can, feel for that nurse who went to pieces because she had no medical back up on site.
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It is no way to run a service, "flying by the seat of their pants!"
 
@gennepher What a pickle you found yourself in, goodness to now you are on the mend but what a debacle. I reckon my Health Centre is running without doctors, where are they all?
 
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