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After waiting 4 months I finally had an appointment with an endocrinologist. What a joke. He informed me that I am overweight. Really? I had not noticed 
Then he told me that although I had lost 30 pounds on a ketogenic diet that I would be unable to lose weight and keep it off because calories in and calories out and high fat yada yada. Started to mutter about cholesterol but mine is perfect so didn't get far with that. Blood pressure? Oops, checked it, not high. He went on to say that a keto diet and forxiga was extremely dangerous and I was going to go into DKA at any moment, Hmmm has not happened over the last 7 months. Told me I need to go on victoza immediately and he was going to write my doctor about putting me on the wait list for bariatric surgery. Wait, WHAT? Yeah that is so not going to happen. I said my insulin is already too high look at the c-peptide results and I did not want any meds that would force my pancreas to raise it further, he said victoza didn't do that. What???? Dr. Google and the victoza web site beg to differ.
This trip cost me 3 days of my life and about $500 to hear this garbage. Got stranded due to weather cancelling ferries and had to fork out for hotels etc. I am just disgusted with the whole thing. My A1c as of a month ago is 5.8% or 40 so how bad can I be doing? He never even mentioned the non-diabetic A1c just pushed me to have most of my stomach cut out.
Ok rant over. Thanks for listening.
Then he told me that although I had lost 30 pounds on a ketogenic diet that I would be unable to lose weight and keep it off because calories in and calories out and high fat yada yada. Started to mutter about cholesterol but mine is perfect so didn't get far with that. Blood pressure? Oops, checked it, not high. He went on to say that a keto diet and forxiga was extremely dangerous and I was going to go into DKA at any moment, Hmmm has not happened over the last 7 months. Told me I need to go on victoza immediately and he was going to write my doctor about putting me on the wait list for bariatric surgery. Wait, WHAT? Yeah that is so not going to happen. I said my insulin is already too high look at the c-peptide results and I did not want any meds that would force my pancreas to raise it further, he said victoza didn't do that. What???? Dr. Google and the victoza web site beg to differ.This trip cost me 3 days of my life and about $500 to hear this garbage. Got stranded due to weather cancelling ferries and had to fork out for hotels etc. I am just disgusted with the whole thing. My A1c as of a month ago is 5.8% or 40 so how bad can I be doing? He never even mentioned the non-diabetic A1c just pushed me to have most of my stomach cut out.
Ok rant over. Thanks for listening.
