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The diabetic nurses & doctors were I used to live told me that a flicks reading of 26 was normal after eating cornflakes for breakfast I moved to a new doctor in June 2008 my new doctor told me I would have been lucky to see the of the year the way they were treating me if id done things there way id be in a pine box by now
xyzzy
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With readings of 26 after eating cornflakes I think your new doctor is right about what would have happened to you. Lot's of us like you have found the best way is to deal with it yourself and do what works for you. :thumbup:
CHICORITO said:
Your new GP is spot on. 26 a normal reading? Where do they get these Doctors from? I'm glad you found a sensible GP, you and I are part of a very, very small number of people here who have good Doctors. I am moving house, and I won't move out of the catchment area of my surgery. I know finding another GP like the one I have now will be remote and I won't play NHS Postcode lottery with my life.
Welcome to the forum.
robertwt
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Hi Chicorito, and all,
I've said it before: I have great, talented, sympathetic doctors and similarly talented Diabetic Nurses. The clinic has a supurb phlebotomist and even the dietician talks a lot of sense.
I'm in Ireland too, with all our problems.
But I started in the UK, Wales to be precise. Did I have problems with GPs or hospitals. Well, er, no I didn't. The doctor who diagnosed me was right on the ball as was the Diabetic Specialist Nurse. This is conjecture, of course, but I don't think that they killed me
So is it a lottery or is it an abject lack of knowledge and understanding about diabetes. Your GP can't know everything/, much as we'd like him/her to do.
Who's to remedy this? Here's a few off the top of my head ideas. We could
- start a petition to the BMA calling for better training of young doctors (this could take months to organise, years to implement and decades to introduce) ("What do we want?" "Perfection" "When do we want it?" "NOW")
- prepare an 'essential facts' manual of diabetes and circulate it to all GPs surgeries (With 50,000 surgeries to cover, (guesswork number) writing the manual would be the easy bit - it would cost an arm and a leg to publish and circulate and there would be no guarantee that it'd be read, or for that matter, absorbed and applied) :cry:
- train roving abmassadors in the essentials of dibetes and its treatment. These ambassadors would need to be fully up to speed on the basic information, treatment, side effects and paraphanalia associated with the condition) They would be charged with reminding GPs (and specialists) what certain symptoms and conditions mean in practice. These I suggest could be called self empowered diabetes clinics advisers, or diabetics for short. :clap:
That is, the buck stops here.
If a blood test hurts - say something (other than ouch, although that's better than suffering in silence)
If you're experiencing hypos with monotonous regularity - talk to your DSN and get your insulin down (or adjust your diet)
if you ave having high BG levels - look at your diet and lifestyole. Are you eating the wrong things, are you getting enough exercise?
If you can't shift your weight - talk to the dietician - he/she has an -ology and a sustificate. They may also have a bright idea or two. There's a first for everything.
If your GP was playing truant on the afternoon they did diabetes, (or can remember VE Day in 1945) change him/her, or be prepared to educate them.
There is more that enough grey matter floating intelligently about this site to get answers to your questions. Why not pass on the URL to your doctor? They may not be able to admit that they need a refresher. If they don't know what a URL is, perhaps it's time to get a younger opinion.
Welcome to the forum
Robert wt
[Mad as a box of frogs]
T1, diagnosed 1996.
Novorapid 6i/u TPD
Levemir 62i/u am and pm
Metformin, 1000g BD
I've said it before: I have great, talented, sympathetic doctors and similarly talented Diabetic Nurses. The clinic has a supurb phlebotomist and even the dietician talks a lot of sense.
I'm in Ireland too, with all our problems.
But I started in the UK, Wales to be precise. Did I have problems with GPs or hospitals. Well, er, no I didn't. The doctor who diagnosed me was right on the ball as was the Diabetic Specialist Nurse. This is conjecture, of course, but I don't think that they killed me
So is it a lottery or is it an abject lack of knowledge and understanding about diabetes. Your GP can't know everything/, much as we'd like him/her to do.
Who's to remedy this? Here's a few off the top of my head ideas. We could
- start a petition to the BMA calling for better training of young doctors (this could take months to organise, years to implement and decades to introduce) ("What do we want?" "Perfection" "When do we want it?" "NOW")
- prepare an 'essential facts' manual of diabetes and circulate it to all GPs surgeries (With 50,000 surgeries to cover, (guesswork number) writing the manual would be the easy bit - it would cost an arm and a leg to publish and circulate and there would be no guarantee that it'd be read, or for that matter, absorbed and applied) :cry:
- train roving abmassadors in the essentials of dibetes and its treatment. These ambassadors would need to be fully up to speed on the basic information, treatment, side effects and paraphanalia associated with the condition) They would be charged with reminding GPs (and specialists) what certain symptoms and conditions mean in practice. These I suggest could be called self empowered diabetes clinics advisers, or diabetics for short. :clap:
That is, the buck stops here.
If a blood test hurts - say something (other than ouch, although that's better than suffering in silence)
If you're experiencing hypos with monotonous regularity - talk to your DSN and get your insulin down (or adjust your diet)
if you ave having high BG levels - look at your diet and lifestyole. Are you eating the wrong things, are you getting enough exercise?
If you can't shift your weight - talk to the dietician - he/she has an -ology and a sustificate. They may also have a bright idea or two. There's a first for everything.
If your GP was playing truant on the afternoon they did diabetes, (or can remember VE Day in 1945) change him/her, or be prepared to educate them.
There is more that enough grey matter floating intelligently about this site to get answers to your questions. Why not pass on the URL to your doctor? They may not be able to admit that they need a refresher. If they don't know what a URL is, perhaps it's time to get a younger opinion.
Welcome to the forum
Robert wt
[Mad as a box of frogs]
T1, diagnosed 1996.
Novorapid 6i/u TPD
Levemir 62i/u am and pm
Metformin, 1000g BD
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and "expert" is a drip under pressure.
