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After 6 months I’m finally being listened to

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Numan

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Location
Norfolk
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
November 21 I had a covid booster, a week later my stable blood sugars went through the roof, from 6 to 8, to 15/17. (Hba1c had been around 48) A dramatic change as I’m not on any medication. “Ignore it” my diabetic nurse said (not my usual one but another lady). I contacted them again a month later when it was still high, “you shouldn’t be testing” I get told. I’m on a low carb diet so yes I am testing thank you very much. I have an operation in January and talk to my Doctor, about it. Metformin prescribed, still high figures. I speak to the dn, I get told off again. I have another Hba1c and it’s 100 plus, I book an appointment with my original dn and say I will only deal with her. So today I get told I need to be on more medication, I need to test and everything is urgent. I also find out the DN which I was having trouble with has recorded my fasting bloods as 8/9 not 15/16 as they were reported to her. Needless to say, if you get a good DN hold onto them, and if you get a bad one kick up a fuss, I wish I had trusted myself a little more and created a fuss, maybe if I had seen the doctor I wouldn’t be in the state I am now.
 
Numan said:
November 21 I had a covid booster, a week later my stable blood sugars went through the roof, from 6 to 8, to 15/17. (Hba1c had been around 48) A dramatic change as I’m not on any medication. “Ignore it” my diabetic nurse said (not my usual one but another lady). I contacted them again a month later when it was still high, “you shouldn’t be testing” I get told. I’m on a low carb diet so yes I am testing thank you very much. I have an operation in January and talk to my Doctor, about it. Metformin prescribed, still high figures. I speak to the dn, I get told off again. I have another Hba1c and it’s 100 plus, I book an appointment with my original dn and say I will only deal with her. So today I get told I need to be on more medication, I need to test and everything is urgent. I also find out the DN which I was having trouble with has recorded my fasting bloods as 8/9 not 15/16 as they were reported to her. Needless to say, if you get a good DN hold onto them, and if you get a bad one kick up a fuss, I wish I had trusted myself a little more and created a fuss, maybe if I had seen the doctor I wouldn’t be in the state I am now.
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Be sure that the miss recording is both corrected and reported to the surgery manager - you have survived, but the worst case scenario could be the death or serious impairment of one of her patients.
 
How long have you been diagnosed? In the first 5 or so years a sudden and significant rise that cannot be explained should have type 1/LADA excluded.
 
Interesting, (but horrific for you!), but interesting to me as my BG went from low normal, (just found out I had been tested for a previous nerve-related ailment) to HbA1c 129.5 after my covid jabs, and symptoms started about a month after my 2nd; diagnosed 10 days after my booster.

I hope you get the practice manager to sort your records and have a serious word with the doctor and nurses - I no longer deal with my original Diabetes Nurse (and vice versa) after she feared I would 'officially' complain because of the shambles she made with me.

I would definitely get them to refer you for GAD/c-peptide testing. Good luck.
 
Thanks, I’m just dealing with my original DN and have told her I will cancel any appointments that get rescheduled away from her, she’s aware of the situation and I trust her completely.
 
Glad you have complained about the error. Nothing will ever get any better unless results are recorded correctly. I experienced errors in recording test results years ago, when the hospital sent results to the GP surgery in letters and admin staff recored them inaccurately on their PC system. I had been told the results at a clinic appointment, but it took a GP appointment, when the doctor actually went and found the original letter, to establish there had been a significant error with the figures recorded for my record.

Unfortunately, all human beings make mistakes, but we all need to acknowledge this - including medical professionals, who in my experience, generally assume that it is the patient who must be wrong.
 
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