descartesmum
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So I have been told that our health authority is changing the way diabetes is being handled. Earlier this year I received a phone call from a supposedly diabetes nurse who I couldn't understand. To make a long phone call short, she virtually threatened me by saying that if I don't lose weight they would take away my Byetta. I said that Byetta wasn't a weight control drug and it has helped my bs. She didn't care. We made an appointment to meet in September.
We met and she gave me a lecture that the powers-that-be want people to lose weight and why haven't I on the Byetta. I explained that it wasn't for losing weight and that I never lost weight on the Metformin either. She ignored my Metformin comment and concentrated on the Byetta. So we made a deal that I had to lose at least 2 pounds (I mentioned 5) by the next visit which was last week.
Last week I get a garbled call from someone asking me if I can come in earlier for the appointment, 9:30 instead of 12:30, fine.
I got there and sat waiting in the Family Planning Clinic waiting area. Being in my 60s I did feel a tad funny. So I wait and about 12 minutes after my visit was to begin a woman, a stranger, popped out of an office, asked my name and said she would be with me presently. *sigh* I could feel my bp going up.
Went in and guess what? She didn't give a toss about my weight, I did lose half a stone. Apparently the person who wrote up my visit wrote down wrong weight so it looked like I didn't lose as much. :x This was a different nurse than before. She treated me like a 10 year old. I had a problem with my last blood test, 2 weeks ago, and had to have a new one for potassium done. That was fine, in fact everything was good except my A1c and it was high, 8.7. It's normally in the 7s. I don't know why it was up. So I got a lecture about eating properly and should I go and see a nutritionist? Well, the 2 times I saw one at the local hospital all he wanted to do was talk about my diet for IBS, which his partner had. What a waste of time.
So I'm to be seen again in February so I can work on my bs.
Oh, blood pressure? From her lateness and her attitude to me my bp was 158/98. I suffer from white coat syndrome and all the nurses know that I have to sit quietly before my bp being taken. She took it again and it was 151/98. She told me to go to my gp and ask for another check. *sigh*
If this is supposed to be a new and improved way of treating diabetes, they can get stuffed. Why can't I continue to go to the local hospital's diabetes clinic? I know the nurses there they know me. Nooooo, some idiot pen pusher thinks he's G-d and is determined to upset all of us. :thumbdown:
We met and she gave me a lecture that the powers-that-be want people to lose weight and why haven't I on the Byetta. I explained that it wasn't for losing weight and that I never lost weight on the Metformin either. She ignored my Metformin comment and concentrated on the Byetta. So we made a deal that I had to lose at least 2 pounds (I mentioned 5) by the next visit which was last week.
Last week I get a garbled call from someone asking me if I can come in earlier for the appointment, 9:30 instead of 12:30, fine.
I got there and sat waiting in the Family Planning Clinic waiting area. Being in my 60s I did feel a tad funny. So I wait and about 12 minutes after my visit was to begin a woman, a stranger, popped out of an office, asked my name and said she would be with me presently. *sigh* I could feel my bp going up.
Went in and guess what? She didn't give a toss about my weight, I did lose half a stone. Apparently the person who wrote up my visit wrote down wrong weight so it looked like I didn't lose as much. :x This was a different nurse than before. She treated me like a 10 year old. I had a problem with my last blood test, 2 weeks ago, and had to have a new one for potassium done. That was fine, in fact everything was good except my A1c and it was high, 8.7. It's normally in the 7s. I don't know why it was up. So I got a lecture about eating properly and should I go and see a nutritionist? Well, the 2 times I saw one at the local hospital all he wanted to do was talk about my diet for IBS, which his partner had. What a waste of time.
So I'm to be seen again in February so I can work on my bs.
Oh, blood pressure? From her lateness and her attitude to me my bp was 158/98. I suffer from white coat syndrome and all the nurses know that I have to sit quietly before my bp being taken. She took it again and it was 151/98. She told me to go to my gp and ask for another check. *sigh*
If this is supposed to be a new and improved way of treating diabetes, they can get stuffed. Why can't I continue to go to the local hospital's diabetes clinic? I know the nurses there they know me. Nooooo, some idiot pen pusher thinks he's G-d and is determined to upset all of us. :thumbdown: