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Hospital visit useless...

itconor

itconor

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Location
UK
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
I was admitted to hospital for the first time in 10 years in December with suspected DKA I had been sick and it just caused issues lucky I was fine and they let me out the next day.

But to the point I really disliked being in there they have no idea what to do. They took my own insulin and my own metre off me .

And just seemed to mess me around an example was the breakfast. Which was a bowl of corn flakes which I would never. Normally have and then it took them about an hour and a half to show up with insulin . they would check my blood sugar and wonder why I'm high.. Tea consisted of toast and jam... They also attempted to serve me ice cream and jelly with lunch..

What are others experiences with this

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Re: Hospital visit useless...

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
 
Re: Hospital visit useless...

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 :)
 
Re: Hospital visit useless...

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
 
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