I'm just so angry with my current GP. Visited him a couple of days ago on a follow-up for my blood pressure and to get repeats of that medication ordered.
He noted that I had lost weight and looked a lot fitter and happier since he'd last seen me... but refused to put me up for a cholesterol level test or HBa1C so early to see how my changed diet was going. Also was quite upset with my diet as well when I told him I was completely ignoring the recommended diet and had cut back on carbs and was making it up with protein and saturated fats...
He basically told me to keep taking the statins (I'd told him I'd stopped taking them as he'd asked if I wanted a repeat doing for them) and see what the results were on the next annual tests in April... His objection for the HBa1C was that they cost his budget £10 a throw and he wasn't going to go recommending them willy nilly, just the absolute minimum the NICE guidelines require. He's already started cutting back on test strips for T2s (even insulin users) as he was having budget issues because of the current obesity/diabetes crisis... Really didn't like the fact that I was self testing for BG levels. He asked me what I would do with a bad reading, told him I'd go for a walk and also cut back on whatever had caused the bad reading.
methinks I may go around him via the DSN... but need an excuse to see her earlier as well... she's a bit funny about my diet as well...
I feel abandoned until next April... oh well, there's still you lot in here...
He noted that I had lost weight and looked a lot fitter and happier since he'd last seen me... but refused to put me up for a cholesterol level test or HBa1C so early to see how my changed diet was going. Also was quite upset with my diet as well when I told him I was completely ignoring the recommended diet and had cut back on carbs and was making it up with protein and saturated fats...
He basically told me to keep taking the statins (I'd told him I'd stopped taking them as he'd asked if I wanted a repeat doing for them) and see what the results were on the next annual tests in April... His objection for the HBa1C was that they cost his budget £10 a throw and he wasn't going to go recommending them willy nilly, just the absolute minimum the NICE guidelines require. He's already started cutting back on test strips for T2s (even insulin users) as he was having budget issues because of the current obesity/diabetes crisis... Really didn't like the fact that I was self testing for BG levels. He asked me what I would do with a bad reading, told him I'd go for a walk and also cut back on whatever had caused the bad reading.
methinks I may go around him via the DSN... but need an excuse to see her earlier as well... she's a bit funny about my diet as well...
I feel abandoned until next April... oh well, there's still you lot in here...
