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Never been offered anything......best advice was 55 years ago when diagnosed with type 1 & spent 3 weeks in a childrens' hospital. All follow up appointments were also suffused with information which still stands me in good stead today. Also lots of info offered whilst pregnant twice. Have gone...

...oh & I also find that since I have turned 60 I am no longer taken seriously at all. My GP also seems to think that my type 1 has turned into type 2 ("hypos are caused by eating sweet food which makes your body produce more insulin = hypo--I sat there with my mouth open & totally unable to...

I find the whole thing of under educated consultants, GP s & DSN s, who don't listen to one word that their patients utter, to be absolutely dismal. In the bad old days of glass syringes and wee testing docs seemed to have far better understanding of diabetes--or is it just that I have learnt...

I was 8 years old & didn t know what diabetes was although from a better informed, retrospective perception I can see that I had had symptoms before things got really bad. Anyway things got really bad in Sept 1960 & my mother took me to the gp repeatedly. His advice was that she should feed me...

Oh dear.................

A real mess--I really do feel that consultants, GP s & DSN s are the ones that need educating. It is easier for us, we know what affects us and how we feel and why. We can also reseatch specific points but to have to put up with silly remarks from those who should know better is ridiculous. Have...

CGM? Ask about it......

What an arrogant response--does she actually think she knows more than you about diabetes?

3 years ago I needed to have a private medical. I obviously told the GP who gave me the medical that I was type 1 YET he spent considerable time lecturing me about the fact that I had metabolic syndrome. When I chipped in that I had an auto immune disorder this was ignored. I needed the...

Got it in one! Shame DSN doesn't think things through....!!!!

Yes. Firstly statins after 1 week as I teach dance but statins gave me muscle weakness so impossible to teach dance & to demonstrate with weak muscles! Secondly medication to reduce blood pressure as it made me very, very ill & it turned out that I had low blood pressure, not high!! I didn't...

GP seems to confuse advanced years with type 2....by the way my surgery has failed their CQC inspection which means that if they don;t improve in 6 months they will be closed down (a bit like OFSTED)!

My DSN told me that type 2 diabetes is far worse than type 1 & that the only thing that worked for type 2 s was bariatric surgery. She then asked me whether I wanted an HBAC1 or a morning blood test next visit--I am type 1 so a) do I really want to know that her personal opinion is that 2 is...

I totally agree with you!!!

Have you read Joslin Institute (leaders in research & treatment of diabetes worldwide) research into metabolisation of fat in diabetes? It completely overturns UK ideas about fat in the diet. How many of diabetics are overweight because they have been told to eat lots of (excessive) cho @...

What if favourite food is dumpling?s--bit of a no no because of v high cho value. Glycemic value...? 20 g ch is 20g cho whether it is low or high glycemic. I actually found that too much low glycemic food eaten= hypos because it takes so long to metabolise with injected insulin (the insulin is...

...and type 1 even worse--totally unable to metabolise cho without the correct amount of insulin

....yes not specific enough.....

It really helps to know how much cho foods contain, to have a set amount for each meal and to stick to that amount of cho at mealtimes but vary the types of food eaten (easy if you know cho content of foods). I was diagnosed at 8 years and whilst in hospital was taught cho content of different...

--do 30/ 30/ 30 g cho + 10-15g cho before bed (to stop nocturnal hypo). Aim for bm 4-7.