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- Type of diabetes
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Hi all
The preamble: have changed my avatar so that I am not personally identifiable in case the person I want to write about finds this forum. Also changed a few details to make self-identification harder and am not including the gender of the person concerned.
Someone I know has recently been diagnosed Type 2, with an HbA1c in the high 50s and very few other symptoms. While I don't want to turn this into a rant about the medical profession, they are being given really poor advice and I am in a quandary about the best way to help them (they definitely will not appreciate me interfering or acting as though I know it all).
Their doctor is telling them that they should:
- Not skip meals and definitely eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and not go more than a few hours without eating.
- More than that, not eating means the body is converting everything into glucose and their sugars will go up while not eating.
- Not test - that is just for type 1 insulin users.This is despite being warned about DKA (to the point of fear).
- Not taking their medication is dangerous and they can die if they don't take it. (The medication is making them feel rotten and worse than before being diagnosed).
Now obviously I am getting everything secondhand, but it breaks my heart to hear about such misinformation. I am going to (tactfully) share a link to this forum, but wanted to seek advice about how to broach this. The HbA1c is not dangerously high and it strikes me that dietary changes ought to be able to improve it significantly.
Thanks in advance for any advice. I am at work so will check in again a bit later.
Edited to remove a few potentially identifying comments as link to this site is to be shared! Thanks for all the comments.
The preamble: have changed my avatar so that I am not personally identifiable in case the person I want to write about finds this forum. Also changed a few details to make self-identification harder and am not including the gender of the person concerned.
Someone I know has recently been diagnosed Type 2, with an HbA1c in the high 50s and very few other symptoms. While I don't want to turn this into a rant about the medical profession, they are being given really poor advice and I am in a quandary about the best way to help them (they definitely will not appreciate me interfering or acting as though I know it all).
Their doctor is telling them that they should:
- Not skip meals and definitely eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and not go more than a few hours without eating.
- More than that, not eating means the body is converting everything into glucose and their sugars will go up while not eating.
- Not test - that is just for type 1 insulin users.This is despite being warned about DKA (to the point of fear).
- Not taking their medication is dangerous and they can die if they don't take it. (The medication is making them feel rotten and worse than before being diagnosed).
Now obviously I am getting everything secondhand, but it breaks my heart to hear about such misinformation. I am going to (tactfully) share a link to this forum, but wanted to seek advice about how to broach this. The HbA1c is not dangerously high and it strikes me that dietary changes ought to be able to improve it significantly.
Thanks in advance for any advice. I am at work so will check in again a bit later.
Edited to remove a few potentially identifying comments as link to this site is to be shared! Thanks for all the comments.
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