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- Type of diabetes
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- dishonesty and ********
This week I had my diabetic consultant and team on a speaker phone consultation. The line wasn't completely clear so I didn't grasp a couple of words.
But I had asked, again, why clarythromycin may have made my insulin requirements by a third in 7 days and was there another medication that did this other than an antibiotic.
That appears to be a no although I don't agree. But I am just the patient.
So disregarding what is written in my letter to my team earlier this year, which had been distributed to all concerned for their opinions... this dr continued on the line of why is it I want to lose weight. Mmmmmm
Healthy BMI
Reduce risk of multiple diabetic complications with improved blood sugars. Did I really need to explain that??
So then he said there's a group of drugs he's not keen to prescribe because there's increased risk of DKA.
Would that not be the type of medication I was asking about? I think I've proven having avoided SEVERE hypos on the two occasions I had clarythromycin that I watch my health carefully and perhaps this drug could be a game changer for me. Would this be the category of SULFONYUREA ?
He'd mentioned metformin briefly ( which in my letter and in my records I've been on for years max dose)
He mentioned byetta ( which in my letter states I tried but it made me very sick)
So I came off the phone a bit deflated. I write to my nurse straight away to ask her to clarify this name of meds that I didn't catch the word for. Nothing back yet.
Anyone else with any experiences or knowledge of these meds? Or others I don't know about?
I know that sometimes a medication proves useful even if used for a different purpose to it's initial intention.
Oh and I did have to answer this dr with ' no 500-800 Cals a day on my 16:8 program is not sustainable for me long term' ( I'd done it for about a month and then continued with 16:8 and more Cals since then
But I had asked, again, why clarythromycin may have made my insulin requirements by a third in 7 days and was there another medication that did this other than an antibiotic.
That appears to be a no although I don't agree. But I am just the patient.
So disregarding what is written in my letter to my team earlier this year, which had been distributed to all concerned for their opinions... this dr continued on the line of why is it I want to lose weight. Mmmmmm
Healthy BMI
Reduce risk of multiple diabetic complications with improved blood sugars. Did I really need to explain that??
So then he said there's a group of drugs he's not keen to prescribe because there's increased risk of DKA.
Would that not be the type of medication I was asking about? I think I've proven having avoided SEVERE hypos on the two occasions I had clarythromycin that I watch my health carefully and perhaps this drug could be a game changer for me. Would this be the category of SULFONYUREA ?
He'd mentioned metformin briefly ( which in my letter and in my records I've been on for years max dose)
He mentioned byetta ( which in my letter states I tried but it made me very sick)
So I came off the phone a bit deflated. I write to my nurse straight away to ask her to clarify this name of meds that I didn't catch the word for. Nothing back yet.
Anyone else with any experiences or knowledge of these meds? Or others I don't know about?
I know that sometimes a medication proves useful even if used for a different purpose to it's initial intention.
Oh and I did have to answer this dr with ' no 500-800 Cals a day on my 16:8 program is not sustainable for me long term' ( I'd done it for about a month and then continued with 16:8 and more Cals since then