Hospital visit useless...

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Goodness me, that sounds horrible! For one that food is just plain wrong, your experience sounds exactly what my sister went through when she was diagnosed with late adult onset type 1 a few months ago. I went absolutely spare at the Dr in hospital managing things, they put her on massive doses of insulin and fed her total sugar loaded '****' for food, gave her the wrong type of insulin, and the list goes on. I actually had to tell the 'specialist' what tests to run, interpret the results and fix things. Thankfully at the moment she's still off insulin (lucky girl honeymoon period!).

The level of expertise on diabetes can at times be utterly shocking to be honest. Most of the time long term diabetics have more expert knowledge than the medics which is not very comforting. As for taking your insulin off you I'm not sure they are allowed/supposed to do that.

Glad to hear you were well!
Frankie

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Yes itconor I had the same experience as you when I was admitted to hospital. I had a bs reading of 61+ and keystones. I was diagnosed as being T3. T3 is a form of diabetes caused by a trauma. In my case it was pancreatitis. I was given cereal, cornflakes, Rice Krispies and bread and jam for breakfast and meals loaded with rice. I sent back the apple crumble and custard !! They wondered why it took so long to get my levels down. I was in there for nearly 3 weeks. Don't think hospitals have ever heard of 5 a day

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They SHOULD be subscribing to "Think Glucose" and let anyone who is competent to do so, manage their own diabetes.
Write to the PALS[patient liaison service] at your hospital and make a complaint. Address and phone number in hospital web site.
Hana