Anyone else prescribed Google ?

Deano_uk

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I can laugh about this now but a few weeks ago I was horrorfied.

I was diagnosed type 2 at the beggining of June, the day I saw the Doctor she gave Metformin and a link to the Diabetes.org website.
I was told to excercise more and eat healthyly and come back in 3 months.

So I read what I could changed my Diet and took the tablets but I still wasn't feeling great. A fellow Diabetic at work suggested he tested my blood for me to see how things were going.

2 Hours ofter Special K in the morning my reading was 19.4, before lunch 15.4 after lunch back up to 19......
So things were obviously not right and he said go back and see your doc, which I did.

I was greated with why are you back to see me so soon I said 3 months, I explained why and was then chastised like child being told that I shouldnt be testing and all that mattered was the blood test I was to have after 3 months.
I then asked if I could see a Diatition or a specialist at the hospital as I felt i wasn't getting the diet right to be told they are far too busy dealing with very I'll people and being a smart young man I should be able to find all the information I need via Google.

So off I went tail between my legs and fired up google. Within an hour I found my hospital had a Diabtes education unit so gave them a call and explained the situation. They were shocked to say the least, invited me down for a session with a senior nurse, enrolled me on a course, arranged my eye test, arranged me a Pediatry appointment and informed me that the day I was diagnosed I should have been reffered to them. The service I have recieved from these guys since is amazing and exactly what I needed.

It just shows that GP's are not the best source of information and sometimes Google is.......
 

cugila

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People who are touchy.......feign indignation at the slightest thing. Hypocrites, bullies and cowards.
As you found this site we have to thank Google ........most searches about Diabetes bring people here. We are glad of that and this site get's better and better all the time. We try to actively promote this Forum and there is a post here where you can download a poster advertising this site in any place you can persuade the owner's etc to display it.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9090&p=143765#p143765

Keep the posters out there folks..........you know it makes sense....... :wink:

cugila
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josie38

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Hi deano

Congrats on finding the website. I must say i was a bit shocked at your story but had a bit of a laugh at the end. Google is your new gp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hope you find the help you need to get control and good luck for the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D :D :D :D :D

Josie
 

Jen&Khaleb

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I wish I'd trusted the Google search results as the 2 doctors I saw were completely wrong. Maybe doctors should use Google more often and there would be less mistakes.

All the best.
 

noblehead

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Google's my best friend, only thing is when you type a something in you end up with 1000's of pages of information, and sod's law the info you need is on page 100! :lol:

Nigel
 

cugila

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Google isn't my first port of call........I use several other search engines when I am researching something.

Many of them are small technical ones, so you get a better 'hit' and it narrows the field down. It's all to do with the words you use for a search as well.......just asking one thing gets the 'hits', then modify it to narrow it down, might take a few goes but then you end up with usually, exactly what you are looking for.

Sorting the 'wheat from the chaff'......so to speak !

Ken
 

HLW

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Google would have been more use than the 3 GPs I have seen over the past few years about diabetes. Google would have told me that someone who is in their early/mid 20s and not that overweight (and who wasn't overweight as a child) is very unlikely to have type 2 diabetes, and that drugs for type 2 diabetes will of course work for someone in the early stages of type 1 diabetes, because they would still have some insulin producing cells left. I wonder how much damage the drugs I was taking to force my poor dying beta cells to produce more insulin have done.
 

Moogie1947

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Well Deano that is a sorry tale. I am not impressed with doctor at all - you should have had a referral to the podiatrist, the dietician and for a diabetic retinopathy scan immediately. These should be repeated annually.
Even my dietician is fairly sympathetic about my choice of low carb diet although she is not really allowed to recommend it I don't think as it is not the recognised "healthy eating" plan they are meant to suggest.
I must say I looked at Google once I had been diagnosed and am sorry now that I didn't do it years before when I "only" had high readings but beneath the magic level.
I found this site and the Blood Sugar 101 site which saved me from deteriorating any more.
 

thebear

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It boggles my mind how doctors can treat their patients in this way. Why are doctors so against you testing regularly?