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The only thing that makes me angry these days - often to the point of incandescence - is medical 'professionals' I wouldn't trust to post a letter. I'm 70, with a range of serious conditions since birth, such that my T2 is just the frosting on the cake. Bad enough I'm lucky to be seen once a...

My practice nurse (heaven forfend HM the doctor might ever take an interest) still insists - after my 5 years of T2 - that carbs are OK. In my DIRECT experience there's only one difference between carb and sugar - half an hour. In any case, blood sugar levels must surely be academic when every...

Diabetic team? What diabetic team??? My local NHS believes in mind over matter - they don't mind and you don't matter. Well over a year since I saw a soul other than for an eye test. Used to have a very good Diabetic Nurse, but she left 18 months ago and the newcomer has been a waste of...

The most annoying thing about T2 ever said to me was by my own GP who called it - and still calls it - "only" Type 2 diabetes. I often jokingly tell friends I'm very special as I have that special variant of T2 called "only T2." It soon became clear I'd probably been diabetic for several years...

I've been a T2 for about 6 years now. After a 10-minute diagnosis I was prescribed Metformin and promised all the usual checks. Podiatry took a year of desk-thumping to get - eye checks took twice that long. The eye checks have been more or less yearly since. Never had much real dietary help...

I live in the south of Scotland. So far I've been given strips on a regular basis, though it's occasionally taken a bit of desk-thumping to get the point across. IMHO any claim by medics that testing is unnecessary amounts to criminal neglect - and I made that point at the very outset to the...

Standard bureacratic response these days from people without a glimmer of imagination of initiative. They see the problem (actually ALL problems) as simple. You need a set of rules - tick all the squares and the world will be perfect. Not working? No problem - we simply need more (and more...

I've had it (3 fingers of one hand and the thumb of the other) for ages - supremely painful, but at least it takes my mind off other complaints! :o) Murder first thing of a morning. Those who have had at least some kind of treatment should count themselve lucky. All I get from my GP is ums...

Dangerous places, hospitals... This seems to be pretty typical at most hospitals these days. I rarely eat at the public cafe in my local general hospital - there seem to be few healthy choices. Even worse on the wards. My wife isn't a diabetic, but suffers from serious allergies. In...

I've been a T2 for about 6 years now. My only contact with my GP (about diabetes at least) was for 10 minutes of diagnosis back then, which mostly consisted of 'serve you right fatty'. I've never seen (or been offered) a dietician, and it took me 2 years of desk banging to get a diabetic eye...

I was prescribed simvastatin by my GP a few years ago. Within a month I felt desperately ill - pains everywhere, especially in my arms and chest. I got my GP's standard response to most conditions - "come back next month if you don't feel any better - next!". A week later - feeling even worse...

No moonstone - absolutely not. These are discussion forums and the OP has a right to his opinion. I think his opinion is wrong too (though I share his distaste for health edicts) but I didn't read anything into his post other than a personal opinion. When posts are banned or locked because...

I don't smoke - never have in my 67 years. Not a health choice, simply that I grew up in a house full of heavy smokers and grew so sick of the stink and mess I never touched tobacco myself. After losing both parents to smoking-related diseases I'm relieved I didn't just follow the herd. For...

Par for the course mate. If there is such a thing as a good GP, I've never encountered one in my 66 years. I've had T2 for 5 years now, and apart from my primary diagnosis, which took 20 minutes (and that only happened because I banged on my GP's desk), I've had very little since then apart...

Sounds great doesn't it? But - of course - we'll just end up with official and unofficial records - stuff we're statutorily allowed to see and stuff that's (every quietly) kept out of sight. I can remember my own medical record stating that I was a difficult patient ("He keeps asking...

I'm with Spiral - well on the way to becoming an involuntary vegetarian. I live in a rural area, and have been alarmed at the constant trickle of stories about antibiotics and other drugs in our meat - not just the regular vet-prescribed drugs, but the illicit unmarked stuff that quietly goes...

How do you get to see an endocrinologist in the first place? My only experience with my GP (about diabetes, anyway) was a 10 minute session 3 years ago when I was first diagnosed with T2. Passed straight on to a practice nurse and that was that. I asked at the outset when I'd get to see an...

What would make me happy (apart from the obvious of having to be a member of a club I never asked to join) would be for medical professionals to start taking diabetes seriously, and to admit - as I've found beyond question - that there's a whole more that they don't know (especially about T2)...

I have to admit I've changed my tune about practice nurses over the last couple of years. In this area there's only one practice nurse - or you do without, so no point complaining. No real choice of doctor in this rural area either - like it or lump it. Can't say the diabetic practice nurse I...

Perhaps a bit off the main topic, but isn't it time that the NHS - instead of making their patients' lives a misery - took the bull by the horns and tackled producers at source about prices? My son's work involves engineering and electronics costing, and he reckons there's no excuse for a price...