Recent Content by martin_1967

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    Type 2 Lost Trust in My Doctors...

    i have got to a point that i have little trust in the gps and consultants now and its a horrid possible dangerous way to feel as i have found that i am just wandering what could be a deadly path and now that my kidneys have got slightly worse ie stage 3 moving scarily closer to stage 4 and trust...
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    struggling

    thank you, it seems that i have been awarded esa on support programme but at the esa meeting that was running 3 hrs late apx i had a major hypo ie 1.8 mmol and got told to go to a cafe and get somthing to eat wel after a lot of bad language a bottle of lucozade and a threat to sue them i was...
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    Type 1s: GP confusion re type 1 type 2--anyone else get this?

    my dear friend i was diagnosed with borderline diabetes then told they have the wrong person then 6 years apx told i have t2 then a while later possibly t1 as i went straight on to insulin then got called back a year later and told i have brittle diabetes now my new dr says i just need a good...
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    struggling

    been away for a while , i got awarded esa and put on the supprt group but am still waitng from my local jobcentre to to see what happens from here, the 24 of last i had the atos interview for esa and ecause it was running 3 hours late i had a major hypo ie my legs went and the rest of me started...
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    I Need Info On Brittle Diabetes

    thanks one and all i was told to do a carb diet but could not get it right as i would eat the same each day and still get differant readings ie 2 hrs after it would be 8 the next day 1.8 and so on and when i do gardening it can constantly drop and i have to call it a day , i did ask my...
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    I Need Info On Brittle Diabetes

    hi one and all , i was diagnosed with brittle diabetes in 08-9 i think it was but i dont know if its t 1 or 2 not that i am even sure it matters . little med history , white male age 49 and never been over weight always between 10-11 stone i also have ulcerated colitus liver disease ,chronic...
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    Misinformed Nurse?

    sorry i dont get on the computer much as i dont have internet connection and my phone that a 6 year old can use but im baffled with has packed up in my last bad hypo as i dropped and so did the phone ,such is life, my mum was a private nurse dad was a medic in the forces and my older brother was...
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    Misinformed Nurse?

    any illness is hard to deal with especially when you dont fully understand the ins and outs of it and then you get a stroppy git then the words why me seem to crop up often , diagnosed with diabeties in 2002 then got told they have the wrong person then collapsed in 2005 with liver disease then...
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    Misinformed Nurse?

    dont buy one yet the marjet is not good at the moment , it can get better as you will find out ,see if you can get a differant nurse or change practice thats what i had to do not wholly better but did get better help in the end ,i think
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    Misinformed Nurse?

    hi i was diagnosed with t2 and insulin controlled and the gps nurse was telling me because your under 7 stone you cant be diabetic then the consultant told me not to listen to her but only a proper diabetic nurse not a gp nurse ? then a year later the gp called me in and said you have brittle...
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    struggling

    sorry ive not been online for a while i had to get another dongle as the last one broke ,unfortunatly i have emailed 8 mps,the old pm ,dwp even a local councilor as a last resort and the few replies i have had have been we do not deal with this, i also emailed the bbc to ask them if they would...
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    struggling

    thank you.. i have recieved the atos test date for the 24/of this month and i thought atos had been replaced all the paperwork was headed atos wimbledon , yet another lie from dwp ! hope you both cope well with all and being on any benefit is no fun and coping with illnesses at the same time is...
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    struggling

    better late than never is my excuse for not being online , when i was first put on the work group they sent me to a company called A4E on my first visit the woman that done the initiation told me to appeal and that got turned down by dwp ,second visit i had to see the job adviser / appointer and...
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    Advice needed

    i have been told its brittle diabeties the the consultant in late 2007 and have been trying to deal with it since , i have had differant consultants and nurses telling me differant things and i eat at set times and for the whole of my adult life cooked from fresh for myself and that has not...
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    struggling

    it grieves me that people are going through this and it has made people commit suicide /homless and hungry , the dwp are very hatefull people and as is said the one and only aim is get you off benefits ! in 2007 i was very new to the diabetes and was trying to get to grips with what the doctors...