- Messages
- 6
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I was diagnosed type 2 on the 6th March with a level of 61; after nearly a month of coping with getting my head around the facts ,low carb diet etc monitoring how foods affect my blood sugar and losing nearly a stone . I was feeling I’d got a grip of thing . I got to see the dr who deals with diabetics today, to say I feel completely fobbed off ( I could use a different word but I’m being a lady today) is an understatement, He didn’t look at any of the information I had, most of them below 7 mmol/l apart from a few blimps (Chinese)told me diet alone to control it is a waste of time, seemed annoyed when I turned down going to a class, seem shocked that i told him that I didn’t really want to take meds and demanded to know why I didn’t want to take them ,went on about how I am damaging myself if I don’t, He has put me on statins and metformin 500mg for a week then 1000 from the second week [ more than my dad took after being diagnosed for 30years) he controled his for 20 years with diet) . He went on about blood pressure , mine has always been “normal” . I took the meds but will not be touching them until I have gone further with the low carb diet and returned to see him with results . I went home had a cry from sheer anger at letting myself be railroaded, Is this the way drs treat us all or is it because I’ve just got a knob of a dr, SORRY for the rant Going for a swim to work it off so I don’t eat a big bar of chocolate