Another One Of Those Conversations With GP

Its probably methotrexate.. that's what my old ma took for her arthritis. We recently weaned her off it as it's not really good for long term use but she's moaning about aches and pains.. but then she does live on sugar..

 

I think Methotrexate is used for rheumatoid arthritis but if she has osteoarthritis then I imagine she'd be offered NSAIDs and paracetamol (which can be surprisingly effective if taken regularly several times a day).

 

Never surrender!

My experience is mixed. One nurse takes notes about how I lost 25% body weight and halved my HbA1c in 6 months (LCHF, more exercise, great ideas and support from this forum and the lowcarb forum). She passes this on to other patients so they can help themselves.

The other gets sour when I say:
* The NHS diet advice is literally poisonous (regular brown bread, brown rice etc). Do the tests and you wise up very quickly. Would you rather wake up at 5.5 or at 15+?
* That (self funded) home testing is the only way I could sift the good advice from the quackery about what enjoyable food wouldn't harm me.
* Given the amount I anticipate saving the NHS in avoided complication treatment costs by self management calibrated by self testing it is a bloody disgrace that I have to pay to do their job for them. She actually has the temerity in the face of evidence to debate with me the point of a type 2 self testing. Disgrace.

End of rant.

The NHS in general is wonderful. I really mean that. My late wife got 14 extra years through their work in another specialism.

But they wilfully p*ss away 20% of their budget treating type 2 complications when the correct advice and test strips on prescription might cost 5%.

I am incandescent that this is not obvious to those in charge.

How do we change this?

 

********. It turned my life around.

This is terrible advice with no place on this forum.

Edited by moderator for language

 

She's 92 has meals on wheels most of the week and mainly eats the desserts.. she refuses to eat anything green. Last time she had a funny turn the paramedics took her blood glucose and it was 7.9 . She lives on her own in a wardened block and when she comes to us she hardly eats anything so to be honest there's not a lot I can do and I'm sorry but she is not coming to live with me ever.. We got her off statins and methotrexate but then she started to have atrial fib so is now on meds for that and high blood pressure (which I'm pretty sure may be white coat syndrome). There comes a point where you just have to say what will be will be...

 

Which messenger are you shooting?

 

Really you found testing once a day useful?
How? Most of us test multiple times to see the impact of various foodstuffs on BG levels not sure how you could do that testing once a day..

 

I am going to say, at the beginning of this journey, that i found testing once a day to be more useful than nothing at all. Maybe @JonM1 is not yet a regular tester?

 

I think most of us get it wrong somewhere. I have been put in my place several times! Keep up the excellent posts.

 

Can you explain how and why testing once a day helps anyone still trying to normalise their blood sugars? Is this what you do? If so, when do you test and if the levels are higher than you like, has it shown you why?

 

Our house isn't quite as you make it out to be. I may eat keto but hubby has a cupboard with popcorn, honey roast cashews and chocolate in it. The freezer has haagen daaz as well as sirloin steak and Oppo aplenty so it's not quite as you may expect.
As for mother she used to feed our dog sweet biscuits until she got caught out.. it did not end well. She was in the dog house for months..

 

I only test once a day because I'm on a consistent diet avoiding all carbs where poss. I find testing fasting glucose every morning very useful. We don't all use the same methodology.

 

Yes I know that but someone posted very forcefully to a previous thread which I think they had misread..