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How are we to help our condition
of diabetes get any better?
When you can only afford a cheap can
of this or that? A Day.
How can a person have the recommended
foods even once a week?
The next time the diabetes clinic workers
criticize my food choices or say well buy this
instead I may just lose it.
It's all so distressing. When you want to
do better and you can't.
 
I hear you. Even vegies are expensive at the moment. In most countries, though, the recommended food choices are an average. So, yeah, they might they say fish 3 times a week (I can't afford that for sure!), but on average. Doesn't make it much easier though. My only advice is do the best you can. Buy things when they're on special. If the diabetes workers tell you that you're eating "wrong" tell them you're doing the best you can. Because you are
 
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plantae said:
I see now that you're on insulin. Can I ask what they want you to eat?
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7 ounces of proteins
2 tbsp fats
Free amounts of certain veggies
13-15 carb. choices (15g of carbs. each choice- including
milk, fruits, grains, and certain vegetables - the higher
carb. ones, legumes)

I can't but anything near all that not even half
Maybe 1/4 or less
 
plantae said:
Have you told them that?
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Yep
They continue to ignore that. And I end up
feeling embarrassed and ashamed.
But I know I don't have to feel that way.
I've actually told them more than once.

Part of the issue is that they make the
Appointments with a different person
Everytime. So I have to explain it again.
I have stopped going a few times but
Sometimes they will give people free
Supplies. So I go back.

It's absolutely distressing and I don't think
I can anymore.
 
cdpm said:
Yep
They continue to ignore that. And I end up
feeling embarrassed and ashamed.
But I know I don't have to feel that way.
I've actually told them more than once.

Part of the issue is that they make the
Appointments with a different person
Everytime. So I have to explain it again.
I have stopped going a few times but
Sometimes they will give people free
Supplies. So I go back.

It's absolutely distressing and I don't think
I can anymore.
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I'm sorry you are having such a tough time.

Perhaps you could tell them what your budget is for food, per day, or week, then outline what you buy and what it costs, and see what they say then.
 
I should probably tell the endocrinologist that
I have the phone appointments with
that every time he wants me to get A1C tests
that it's a missed meal cause it has to pay
for fuel to get to the lab?
He's having me go every 3 months.
I know that's when it's done but it means
a missed meal everytime.
 
Hopeful34 said:
Is there any help you can get with travel costs for hospital appointments?
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A person has to have 12 appointments in person
each month to qualify and then you get
a monthly bus pass. They can be at different
places but there has to be 12.

Covid caused most appointments
To be done by phone so I had to trade
my transportation funds to getting a phone.
Being that I don't have a Dr. I have to do
my walkin appointments by phone.
Which now has a fee so I don't get them anymore.
So I'm very lucky my Endo. Dr will still
do my appointments by phone free.
So now any in person appts. like the lab
comes from food funds.

Most of the "helps" you see in Canada are
just words to look good or are very very
hard to qualify for.
 
Some examples of specifics--

I recently became endentulous so they
said to buy diabetic nutritional drinks
as opposed to regular ones
when I told them I was only able to
drink and not eat ( same now but getting better).
I told them twice that I have to buy whatever ones
are on sale. Plus it puts my bs as high as the
non diabetics ones.

And they said to buy a sugar free ice cream.
Well of course that ice cream is priced higher.
I don't even like ice cream.

But the point being that they DONT listen.
So having to explain how dam poor I am
gets embarrassing. Especially more than once.
 
You should be able to get your bloods done at your GP for hospital appointments, ask if they do virtual clinics if you have the options to do this but I only met my diabetic nurse once since the 2 years she's been with the practice! Speak to the secretary and inform them that it's a financial burden don't ever be embarrassed. I type letters for the NHS and occasionally doctors or nurses do dictate issues with patients attending and ask the GP for community help.

As for foods I understand totally, we are on benefits and with the local food bank, my husband gets the bulk of the food, I think out of it all the only goto food I have is the tinned fish and then i request it in water or brine. mostly its all in sunflower oil or tomato sauce which isn't good for you either. Oh occasionally they get given vegetables but mainly fruit so again nothing!

If you aren't on injected insulin, look at fasting and eating two meals a day, eating one meal a day is good but you have to be used to it. Actually breaking from eating is better for you than loading it up with bad foods. If you could learn to do this then the money you save could buy you the food you need for your health.
If you are on insulin it's still good to research this as I'm sure there are reports out there that have people come off insulin as their weight has reduced from the liver and pancreas and it begins to make insulin again.
 
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