Hi Teddy, I do agree to a large extent but the problem is that you DO have to get the help to manage your diabetes or suffer the consequences, I'm specifically talking about type 1 here but it applies to all, my medical team are very helpful but once they give you a libre, or listen to you when you feel a change of insulin brand might help or want a pump and so on, they expect you to 'cooperate' and if they feel you are going it alone and not interested they sometimes refuse any help apart from the basics. There is a balance here of course, a little give & take. x
I'm with teddy on this one
It's more indifference & outdated dogma, imho
Pretty sure it's different for type 1's
The phrase ask your team, just isn't applicable to T2D, in my opinion
It's docs, 10 mins, tick the box, go.
DN more of the same.
Best part of my care package came from here.
Care, where good is pretty decent
Eye checks & foot checks, .
I've said it before, as have others, but perhaps worth repeating
Despite reading about the growing wave of T2D and the apparent lack of success the eatwell plan has had over many year,
My surgery and others so it seems, aren't interested in how on earth we got back to normal.numbers
No "that's wonderful news, how did you do that so we can tell others asap."
(Though to be fair, I did get a text congratulating me on getting a HBA1c of 40, but pretty sure all surgeries T2D got one..cynical..moi
)
It's as if every T2D at my surgery has done this, so it's no surprise.
A fact I find very hard to believe.
I can't help the feeling that apart from a few exceptions the majority of doctors are just brow beaten by how contained or controlled & limited they are in our treatment,
So give up and just follow that eatwell line, regardless of how they personally feel.
Sure others will say how enlightened their surgery is, can only go by personal experience and that of others whose posts I have read.