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Just when I feel like I've got my healthcare professionals trained...
I was diagnosed type 2 a couple of years ago. The practice's practise (forgive the english) is to palm the diabetics off onto a specialist nurse. Sorry, it's to engage you in a regime of self-care using the latest guidelines from the NHS to enable you to live a healthy, useful and productive life with the minimum of complications.
Once I'd explained my reluctance to follow their blurb when I knew from experience that a "fairly" low carb diet kept my hba1c at a reasonable level and that I'd take the metformin, simvastatin, tildiem, lostartan potassium, aspirin without complaint then we had a good working relationship. As long as I also promised to go for my retinal screening too.
The occasional Doctor usually showed their ignorance by telling me that night sweats (or, more accurately, night soaked to the skin to the point of having to change the duvet - not the cover, the duvet - and pillow) agonising night cramps, daytime dizzy spells (which are more like out of body feelings than the gentle wooziness suggested by the description) and the numbness in my right foot which is getting progressively worse have nothing to do with diabetes but are just a collection of unrelated symptoms that are probably age related (I'm 53, not 153).
Finally I found a Doctor who took me seriously. So there I was, sorted.
Except this week, when I asked for my repeat prescription, I was informed I needed a review. Fine, I'll see the Doc. Unfortunately, he's left so I have to see a new one - who'll obviously know all there is to know about me and my condition and how it affects me. And to cap it all, the lovely nurse has left too so I'll have to educate two of them.
As if this disease wasn't depressing enough...
I was diagnosed type 2 a couple of years ago. The practice's practise (forgive the english) is to palm the diabetics off onto a specialist nurse. Sorry, it's to engage you in a regime of self-care using the latest guidelines from the NHS to enable you to live a healthy, useful and productive life with the minimum of complications.
Once I'd explained my reluctance to follow their blurb when I knew from experience that a "fairly" low carb diet kept my hba1c at a reasonable level and that I'd take the metformin, simvastatin, tildiem, lostartan potassium, aspirin without complaint then we had a good working relationship. As long as I also promised to go for my retinal screening too.
The occasional Doctor usually showed their ignorance by telling me that night sweats (or, more accurately, night soaked to the skin to the point of having to change the duvet - not the cover, the duvet - and pillow) agonising night cramps, daytime dizzy spells (which are more like out of body feelings than the gentle wooziness suggested by the description) and the numbness in my right foot which is getting progressively worse have nothing to do with diabetes but are just a collection of unrelated symptoms that are probably age related (I'm 53, not 153).
Finally I found a Doctor who took me seriously. So there I was, sorted.
Except this week, when I asked for my repeat prescription, I was informed I needed a review. Fine, I'll see the Doc. Unfortunately, he's left so I have to see a new one - who'll obviously know all there is to know about me and my condition and how it affects me. And to cap it all, the lovely nurse has left too so I'll have to educate two of them.
As if this disease wasn't depressing enough...
