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What's the craziest thing your doctor's ever said?

Alicia R

Alicia R

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
It was my 30th birthday and I went to see a highly recommended ophthalmologist for my retinopathy. He did some tests and in the end, I ask him, "So, what's the prog, doc?" And he says, "You have some active bleeding, but there's nothing we can do now. However, if you live another 5 years, we can take care of it." Gee, I didn't know 30 years was the end of the line! Happy 30th birthday, to me! What about you? What's the craziest thing your doctor ever said to YOU? Thanks!
 
Do NOT cut back on your carbs! He was quite emphatic as well. No longer my GP either, even with the surgery being only a 10 minute walk away.
 
A locum advised me to go on a diet, to make me sleep better, even though I'd been on another doctors recommended diet, (full of carbs and gaining weight steadily!)
When I replied that I was already dieting, he said eat less!
How is that supposed to make sleep better? I asked.

He replied, You need to lose weight!

Shakes head and walks out!
 
A dietician, advised me not to long ago, to have porridge for breakfast with water instead of milk!

When I replied that, porridge sends my blood glucose levels sky high.

Do you put sugar in it?

Walks away shaking my head!
 
Another new doctor advised me to eat complex carbs.

Such as? I asked.

Wholemeal bread.

No!

Rolled oats.

No!

Brown rice

No!

Wholesale pasta

No!

You have to have carbs! he said.

Not if they spike me.

Just try! He said.

Shakes head and walks out!
 
graj0 said:
Do NOT cut back on your carbs! He was quite emphatic as well. No longer my GP either, even with the surgery being only a 10 minute walk away.
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.....and think of the exercise if your new gp is further to walk to!
 
Not my own gp but the practice so-called diabetes expert, after telling me the usual bumph we get about type 2s not needing to test, and getting my response that I wanted to see what my BG was doing, told me it would be OK if I carried on testing as a hobby...

(I've previously posted about this in an older thread we had about idiotic comments.)

Robbity
 
DeejayR said:
Careful, your head will fall off if you go on like this. Try interspersing it with some nodding dog moves to vary the muscle wear. ;)
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Have a stiff neck! It's good exercise!

I must learn to tut and sigh!
 
The way some doctors talk about oatmeal (err, sorry...porridge!) reminds me of a movie I once watched, called "My Left Foot." Have you seen it? Wonderful movie! Anyway...it's the story of Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. (His father's a brick layer.) So, basically, he only has the use of his left foot and his mother is saving up for a special wheelchair for him, so he can get around freely. But money is tight, so the family has to eat oatmeal (err, porridge!) 3x a day and everyone's getting pretty sick of it, and one of the sons refuses to eat; and I remember how his father got up behind him at the table and shoved a big spoon at him and says, "Get it in ya!" Well, the boy is scared and shovels it in his mouth, only to throw it all up seconds later!
 
Baruney said:
.....and think of the exercise if your new gp is further to walk to!
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Sadly a 15 minute car journey which I was always against because one day, if I'm spared, as a friend always says, I might not be able to drive. For the time being I can go to my surgery, never get worried about waiting, have a little chat with the receptionist and other patients sometimes. Nice doctor listens, usually, doesn't get cross because I'll not be taking statins ever again, or because I went low carb (she seen the benefit). Happy days usually.
 
Of the many, many, silly things that doctors have said over the years, possibly the silliest was when I was 15 years old and went in without my mother because I had red, sore, light sensitive eyes.

(She had told me it was the eyeliner I was using. I was convinced it wasn't)

After examining my red, sore eyes, he told me I was fat, should lose weight - or I would never get a boyfriend - that I was developing a squint, and probably needed glasses.

There were two results from that appt.
  1. I changed eyeliner, and the problem disappeared.
  2. I learned to never assume that doctors were kind/helpful or knowledgeable.
 
DeejayR said:
Careful, your head will fall off if you go on like this. Try interspersing it with some nodding dog moves to vary the muscle wear. ;)
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Awww no no no no no no no no no no no no :)
 
Not a doctor, but the dietary nurse (who specialises in managing diabetes) told me that I couldn't go LCHF because - wait for it - "Fat is fat."

Is that not the dumbest thing you've ever heard, "Fat is fat". Amazing!
 
I went to the Drs with a very swollen foot and lower leg ... I was told to go away and get a hobby !!!!!!! (I hate my doctors now, and I don't trust them on inch, this inc the diabetes team)
 
Whilst waiting to see my diabetic nurse a few years ago...she was running a little behind and offered me a cup of tea while I was waiting...I accepted gratefully...but was quite shocked to hear her call from the kitchen...'do you take sugar???'
 
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