Malcolm1
Well-Known Member
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I was diagnosed 18yrs last Jan as T2 for the first 7 to 8yrs I was diet controlled then my sugars started to rise over a period of a few months and was put on Metformin and gliclazide after a few weeks I asked my then doctor about a test meter as I noticed the dosage kept going up and I felt no better, to be told the same I did not need to test as I was only T2 and on Metformin after some months of being told this I decided to buy my own meter and started testing once a day before bed only to find my readings to be in the mid to high 20s on a daily basis and quite often beyond my meters upper limit of 33.3 despite my bi-monthly blood tests taken at the doctors showing Hba1c as being normal to low at this point my GP retired and for a period of about 3yrs we had a succession of temporary doctors join and leave the surgery who to be honest just couldn’t care less about the patents as they had no intention of stopping on, I was finally attached to another doctor on a permanent basis and at that point after yet again I needed more than just tablets and being told to persevere I printed out my meter readings from the computer and took them in and refused to leave until she did something about it that and the fact that the practice nurse had just found that the feeling in my feet had started to deteriorate all I got was “oh I see what you mean” I was then sent to the diabetic center at the hospital for the first time in 15yrs I shortly moved house and doctors after that but in the 16yrs of being diagnosed while at that surgery I never once saw a diabetic nurse or dietician was never given a blood meter though they did supply the test strips and lancets for my own meter after much argument was not sent for eye scans until after I’d been diagnosed for about 12yrs and finally sent to the diabetic center after almost 8yrs of uncontrolled blood sugar continually in the high teens and low twenties, my new doctors are the complete opposite in the 2 and 1/2yrs I’ve been with them I see a diabetic nurse every 6 to 8 weeks who also takes blood each time, a podiatrist every 12 weeks and the diabetic GP every 12 to 14 weeks I’ve been given 2 new meters since joining the surgery