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Hi, this is my first post so please bear with me if I go against protocol. I have been diabetic for a good few years and through me insisting I didn't need to go to the Doctors as my headaches and extreme fatigue and bad moods along with anxiety and depression, were all because of stress associated with running my own business, and pain killers would sort me out. I was eventually dragged to my GP kicking and screaming and apologising to him for wasting his time but my sister had insisted and had threatened me that if I didn't accompany her she would disown me. My GP went along with my excuses and humour all the while asking my sister of my symptoms and carrying out tests on me.
" Well Tom, you should have come to see me when Mary asked you to a long time ago, maybe you could have changed your ways and avoided becoming diabetic, your blood levels are off the scale, and I am seriously contemplating admitting you to hospital " I persuaded him not to call an ambulance with a promise of going straight home and taking the prescribed medicines and complete rest for at least three days. I also had to promise to return to see him in seven days, I took the Metformin he gave me, and some gabapentin, as I had told him of the pains in my feet, I returned to see him the following week and my levels had gone down quite a bit, but he referred me to a specialist, anyway to shorten this account I was put on Insulin. I knew nothing of insulin but did as I was told, I also had to see the Practice Diabetic Nurse. The nurse was very nice told me all about diabetes the do's and don'ts took my vitals etc and asked me to return in a month. I went back to the nurse, quite chuffed with my readings, but my joy soon disappeared when she weighed me and I had put on twenty kilo's in a month. To say I was shocked was an understatement, I was distraught, I asked her to weigh me again but it was true. She then said she must have forgotten to tell me about the possible weight gain. I said wasn't it because of me being overweight in the first place that brought on the diabetes, to which she replied yes amongst other things like stress etc, so I said so the insulin helps with my blood sugar levels but at the same time piles weight on, making me far more susceptible to all sorts of other illness's such as heart disease and stroke, etc, etc,. She then came out with a classic, " you have to diet as well you know ".
I explained in detail my daily consumption then asked what she considered I could cut out, she booked me an appointment with a dietician, to say it was a waste of everyone's time would be truthful. Diabetic dieticians have no more idea than the man in the street, because our advised diets change daily, it was only when I was admitted to hospital again with sky high levels that the specialists couldn't get down, that I was told by a consultant that the highly recommended breakfast, porridge oats, was bad for me because the milk I had on them turned to sugar. I had been telling everyone that after my breakfast porridge, my levels went up to around the lower to mid twenties and stayed there for ages, but nobody had blamed the porridge with milk, in fact it is still recommended as a good diabetics breakfast, two or three well intentioned bowls of porridge could bloody kill you.
Because of my unshiftable weight gain, now twenty five kilos, I was told " great news Tom " you are to be prescribed Victoza, this will help you lose weight. Yippee, I thought so I began a course of the miracle injection, I continued to diet, no bread, very little fruit, no porridge, lots of fish and chicken, no beer at all no cordial pop mainly water. After a month nothing to show but terrible constipation, so I read the sheet enclosed with the Victoza, there are no claims of weight loss, only that the Victoza has the effect of causing constipation that in turn makes you feel full and so should stop you eating as much. I was so angry, I felt abused, surely retaining your food, in my case for nearly a week, and all the fats and other dietary materials within your body allows it to extract the high calorie foodstuffs and send them to the areas it shouldn't. Surely if food passes through the body quickly without the body being able to extract the harmful materials it must be better to assist weight loss. So I have given up on the insulin and Victoza, I don't test anymore because no matter what I do the readings are mostly negative, which angers and scares me,
I take the twenty eight tablets daily, for the various illnesses I have, and to be truthful it would be a blessing if as I hope I am selected for the other side, as there isn't a lot to look forward to anymore in this life, only to see my Grandchildren grow a bit more so I can stop worrying about them and they can take their place in the scheme of things. This bloody neuropathy is terrible, it has brought me very close to ending it all a few times, so all you hard buggars out there who think they don't need to see the Doctor, take it from me boys, do it don't get the curse of diabetes.
" Well Tom, you should have come to see me when Mary asked you to a long time ago, maybe you could have changed your ways and avoided becoming diabetic, your blood levels are off the scale, and I am seriously contemplating admitting you to hospital " I persuaded him not to call an ambulance with a promise of going straight home and taking the prescribed medicines and complete rest for at least three days. I also had to promise to return to see him in seven days, I took the Metformin he gave me, and some gabapentin, as I had told him of the pains in my feet, I returned to see him the following week and my levels had gone down quite a bit, but he referred me to a specialist, anyway to shorten this account I was put on Insulin. I knew nothing of insulin but did as I was told, I also had to see the Practice Diabetic Nurse. The nurse was very nice told me all about diabetes the do's and don'ts took my vitals etc and asked me to return in a month. I went back to the nurse, quite chuffed with my readings, but my joy soon disappeared when she weighed me and I had put on twenty kilo's in a month. To say I was shocked was an understatement, I was distraught, I asked her to weigh me again but it was true. She then said she must have forgotten to tell me about the possible weight gain. I said wasn't it because of me being overweight in the first place that brought on the diabetes, to which she replied yes amongst other things like stress etc, so I said so the insulin helps with my blood sugar levels but at the same time piles weight on, making me far more susceptible to all sorts of other illness's such as heart disease and stroke, etc, etc,. She then came out with a classic, " you have to diet as well you know ".
I explained in detail my daily consumption then asked what she considered I could cut out, she booked me an appointment with a dietician, to say it was a waste of everyone's time would be truthful. Diabetic dieticians have no more idea than the man in the street, because our advised diets change daily, it was only when I was admitted to hospital again with sky high levels that the specialists couldn't get down, that I was told by a consultant that the highly recommended breakfast, porridge oats, was bad for me because the milk I had on them turned to sugar. I had been telling everyone that after my breakfast porridge, my levels went up to around the lower to mid twenties and stayed there for ages, but nobody had blamed the porridge with milk, in fact it is still recommended as a good diabetics breakfast, two or three well intentioned bowls of porridge could bloody kill you.
Because of my unshiftable weight gain, now twenty five kilos, I was told " great news Tom " you are to be prescribed Victoza, this will help you lose weight. Yippee, I thought so I began a course of the miracle injection, I continued to diet, no bread, very little fruit, no porridge, lots of fish and chicken, no beer at all no cordial pop mainly water. After a month nothing to show but terrible constipation, so I read the sheet enclosed with the Victoza, there are no claims of weight loss, only that the Victoza has the effect of causing constipation that in turn makes you feel full and so should stop you eating as much. I was so angry, I felt abused, surely retaining your food, in my case for nearly a week, and all the fats and other dietary materials within your body allows it to extract the high calorie foodstuffs and send them to the areas it shouldn't. Surely if food passes through the body quickly without the body being able to extract the harmful materials it must be better to assist weight loss. So I have given up on the insulin and Victoza, I don't test anymore because no matter what I do the readings are mostly negative, which angers and scares me,
I take the twenty eight tablets daily, for the various illnesses I have, and to be truthful it would be a blessing if as I hope I am selected for the other side, as there isn't a lot to look forward to anymore in this life, only to see my Grandchildren grow a bit more so I can stop worrying about them and they can take their place in the scheme of things. This bloody neuropathy is terrible, it has brought me very close to ending it all a few times, so all you hard buggars out there who think they don't need to see the Doctor, take it from me boys, do it don't get the curse of diabetes.
