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<blockquote data-quote="pleinster" data-source="post: 1452992" data-attributes="member: 221545"><p>While I completely agree with your point about having lived this long unaware without all the fear and tension, I applaud your positive approach and find your fairly positive attitude to Metformin - all of which can only help settle newly diagnosed people - very useful for those in doubt, I cannot agree with you that "none of these people knew anything about meters before their diagnosis"...quite a number of us already knew diabetics who used them to good effect. Further, I would advise newly diagnosed diabetics (who may have varying levels of awareness of their own condition - which may not be a "simple" Type 2) not to be so quick to dismiss the idea of using meters (at least in the short term) to inform them as to exactly what is having most impact for them as individuals on a day to day basis that the nurse/doctor's monthly or three monthly check certainly will not tell them. Many of us were advised not to use them, as this is the general NHS "party" line...and just as many of us know that to be less than "client focused" advice (as my own diabetes consultant and team of renal doctors, focused on me staying healthy beyond my diabetes, tell me). Did you ever actually use one and seriously not find it useful? My meter (provided free on the NHS in Central Scotland) allowed me not only to help see what was doing most damage (and when), to avoid spikes (which do the real harm..and which will NOT be identified ever by a monthly check), and quite crucially to spot which of the many medications I take for other issues were having an impact. As a result of use of the meter, alteration of diet in response and discussion of alternative meds and/or reduction in dosages has led to me getting things well under control as well as informing my post-transplant clinic staff of one of my ongoing blood levels, therefore protecting my new kidney. I would add that my diabetes was directly caused by medication I was taking post-op and therefore I had not been suffering from a condition I was unaware of prior to that. I am far from alone in that. What I am saying..rambling on about...is that we all differ and what works for one person may not work for another; it's not just as simple as adapting your diet and being cured. For many diabetics (particularly those at risk of hypos..often at night if blood sugars drop too low) a meter is a very important little machine. I am not attacking what you have said, and praise your encouraging words, but would ask you to recognise that some of us don't just advocate things for no reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pleinster, post: 1452992, member: 221545"] While I completely agree with your point about having lived this long unaware without all the fear and tension, I applaud your positive approach and find your fairly positive attitude to Metformin - all of which can only help settle newly diagnosed people - very useful for those in doubt, I cannot agree with you that "none of these people knew anything about meters before their diagnosis"...quite a number of us already knew diabetics who used them to good effect. Further, I would advise newly diagnosed diabetics (who may have varying levels of awareness of their own condition - which may not be a "simple" Type 2) not to be so quick to dismiss the idea of using meters (at least in the short term) to inform them as to exactly what is having most impact for them as individuals on a day to day basis that the nurse/doctor's monthly or three monthly check certainly will not tell them. Many of us were advised not to use them, as this is the general NHS "party" line...and just as many of us know that to be less than "client focused" advice (as my own diabetes consultant and team of renal doctors, focused on me staying healthy beyond my diabetes, tell me). Did you ever actually use one and seriously not find it useful? My meter (provided free on the NHS in Central Scotland) allowed me not only to help see what was doing most damage (and when), to avoid spikes (which do the real harm..and which will NOT be identified ever by a monthly check), and quite crucially to spot which of the many medications I take for other issues were having an impact. As a result of use of the meter, alteration of diet in response and discussion of alternative meds and/or reduction in dosages has led to me getting things well under control as well as informing my post-transplant clinic staff of one of my ongoing blood levels, therefore protecting my new kidney. I would add that my diabetes was directly caused by medication I was taking post-op and therefore I had not been suffering from a condition I was unaware of prior to that. I am far from alone in that. What I am saying..rambling on about...is that we all differ and what works for one person may not work for another; it's not just as simple as adapting your diet and being cured. For many diabetics (particularly those at risk of hypos..often at night if blood sugars drop too low) a meter is a very important little machine. I am not attacking what you have said, and praise your encouraging words, but would ask you to recognise that some of us don't just advocate things for no reason. [/QUOTE]
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