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<blockquote data-quote="klh63" data-source="post: 2487610" data-attributes="member: 552767"><p>Thank You ! I am going to an endocrinologist this coming week and glad to learn what I can from this group so I am educated enough to participate in the discussion regarding my care. even if I have a lot more to learn....Have been going to a PA who keeps using the term "bizarre" and keeps saying "none of this makes any sense" she has been doing the adjusting down but is nervous about it since she is a PA not an MD or specialist and believes my case is out of her skill set so she set me up the appointment with the specialist.. The hospital had sent me to an MD for follow up but I tried to talk to her and she just kept cutting me off and told me to keep consuming the high amount of carbs and because of the lows I needed to eat more and wanted to prescribe a bunch of different meds which made me nervous since this was sudden onset......So I went to a small town PA who said "you should not be having to eat large quantities of carbs to counter the insulin that is not what we should be doing you should be able to eat your normal diet." She has been so nervous about it all because she could not get me in to the endocrinologist right away and she calls me every day for me to give her updates on my health ( came down with a few infections after leaving the hospital, and on antibiotics) and my numbers and she keeps adjusting down but is nervous about it after the DKA and the hospitals instructions and the MD's instructions which she finds bizarre but they rank higher in the hierarchy in the American medical system....I just need to learn all I can so when I get doctors I can actually understand and engage in the process instead of blindly following...I am thankful for your responses and this forum so I can learn beyond what I have been googling, directly from people who understand it. Our system is controlled by big Pharma and I also know all doctors are not created equal...Been my experience historically that PA's are safer bets..</p><p></p><p>Leading up to the DKA I sustained an injury and tried to bring it up to everyone in the hospital and the follow up MD who would listen to none of it...When I asked where my pancreas was in the hospital they showed me, after they said mine didnt work any more, which is where the pain was for a few weeks just before the DKA, fairly intense for weeks, went and got Xrays because I was sure I had broken a rib based on breaking some ribs 5 years earlier the pain was equal to that....Xray showed no broken rib and I lived with the pain..A good friend that lives many states away is a Dr. and she had heard about my stay at the hospital......she also knows me well and knew my blood history was all normal...first thing she asked was if I had sustained an injury and I told her what happened and where it hurt and that I tried to tell the Doctors at the hospital and the follow up MD and they wouldnt listen to it, they just kept saying I was an undiagnosed Type 2 and I had to have had diabetes for a long time and just didnt know it and when I tried to tell them my blood history the last one a few months before this or the accident happened they didnt want to listen and said I was mistaken.....they have health systems and the PA is outside of the health system and affiliated with a different one and she has my blood history the others didnt...</p><p></p><p>But here you have to be your own advocate and participate in the conversation and choices made or you end up where I am now.....eating massive amounts of carbs to not die from the lows that happen all the time...</p><p></p><p>Thank You again and I am going to keep reading up on it and your posts have been very helpful to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klh63, post: 2487610, member: 552767"] Thank You ! I am going to an endocrinologist this coming week and glad to learn what I can from this group so I am educated enough to participate in the discussion regarding my care. even if I have a lot more to learn....Have been going to a PA who keeps using the term "bizarre" and keeps saying "none of this makes any sense" she has been doing the adjusting down but is nervous about it since she is a PA not an MD or specialist and believes my case is out of her skill set so she set me up the appointment with the specialist.. The hospital had sent me to an MD for follow up but I tried to talk to her and she just kept cutting me off and told me to keep consuming the high amount of carbs and because of the lows I needed to eat more and wanted to prescribe a bunch of different meds which made me nervous since this was sudden onset......So I went to a small town PA who said "you should not be having to eat large quantities of carbs to counter the insulin that is not what we should be doing you should be able to eat your normal diet." She has been so nervous about it all because she could not get me in to the endocrinologist right away and she calls me every day for me to give her updates on my health ( came down with a few infections after leaving the hospital, and on antibiotics) and my numbers and she keeps adjusting down but is nervous about it after the DKA and the hospitals instructions and the MD's instructions which she finds bizarre but they rank higher in the hierarchy in the American medical system....I just need to learn all I can so when I get doctors I can actually understand and engage in the process instead of blindly following...I am thankful for your responses and this forum so I can learn beyond what I have been googling, directly from people who understand it. Our system is controlled by big Pharma and I also know all doctors are not created equal...Been my experience historically that PA's are safer bets.. Leading up to the DKA I sustained an injury and tried to bring it up to everyone in the hospital and the follow up MD who would listen to none of it...When I asked where my pancreas was in the hospital they showed me, after they said mine didnt work any more, which is where the pain was for a few weeks just before the DKA, fairly intense for weeks, went and got Xrays because I was sure I had broken a rib based on breaking some ribs 5 years earlier the pain was equal to that....Xray showed no broken rib and I lived with the pain..A good friend that lives many states away is a Dr. and she had heard about my stay at the hospital......she also knows me well and knew my blood history was all normal...first thing she asked was if I had sustained an injury and I told her what happened and where it hurt and that I tried to tell the Doctors at the hospital and the follow up MD and they wouldnt listen to it, they just kept saying I was an undiagnosed Type 2 and I had to have had diabetes for a long time and just didnt know it and when I tried to tell them my blood history the last one a few months before this or the accident happened they didnt want to listen and said I was mistaken.....they have health systems and the PA is outside of the health system and affiliated with a different one and she has my blood history the others didnt... But here you have to be your own advocate and participate in the conversation and choices made or you end up where I am now.....eating massive amounts of carbs to not die from the lows that happen all the time... Thank You again and I am going to keep reading up on it and your posts have been very helpful to me. [/QUOTE]
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