I am VERY curious of your 2nd GP's view about self-monitoring blood glucos level.. So your 2nd GP has no problem (or even encouraging) with your self-monitoring and trying to find out what food spike you and all that?
Absolutely none. In fact quite the opposite. I actually had to see him because I started to get a horrible allergic reaction to the sensor adhesive and he prescribed a steroid to use as a base and betnovate to treat any reaction.
He apologised for not being able to prescribe the sensor for me and said it was so short sighted because it costs the NHS way more in dealing with amputations and blindness in the most extreme cases and it would save them so much money to encourage people to self test.
Then again he did say for every person that does do their research and try to be proactive there are enough who don’t care and just do the same old things.
My diagnosing GP flat out told me to my face that I would be wasting my money monitoring my BG and to this day totally refuses to change that stance.
I remember seeing him 3 months after diagnosis having tested and tweaked to get my bloods down and felt so proud and he literally told me to stop wasting my money, stop eating full fat diary and eggs and cut out things like eggs, bacon, sausages type combo. He was (and still is) having none of it!
That is why I just won’t see him anymore at the surgery! Ain’t no-one got time to waste on that!!
The most I have had to push back with for second GP was when I had real burnout during a LOT of travel and working away and he wanted me to go up to 4 metformin and upped my jardiance. I tease him that he wanted me to take more because apparently Metformin brings about World Peace and he just laughs and holds his hands up - he has tried to get me to take statins when I was burning out too but I said no and to be fair he has not forced it as an option. I did have to accept blood pressure tablets though.
I stuck at 3 with his agreement and have since dropped down to 2 and Jardiance because numbers are in good nick at the moment but with C19 numbers rising in the region I am waiting a while for blood test. I always go see him with latest Libre graphs and I have my food diary on MyFitnessPal but so far he has been happy with my control, and long may it continue!