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<blockquote data-quote="Xan2cv" data-source="post: 818026" data-attributes="member: 172718"><p>Hello all,</p><p></p><p>Thank you for your replies,</p><p></p><p>firstly the Nurse is at my GP's Health Centre.</p><p></p><p>I have tonight received a call back from Diabeties.org.uk and spoke with a counsellor for about an Hour and she has given me a lot of options to consider. firstly I have to calm down as this has well and truly wound me up especially one day before the Easter bank hols, secondly apparently I have the right to ask my GP who is a good GP regardless of the staff she hires to work at the practice, to ask her to refer me to the Hospital Diabetes clinic for all my future Diabetes care, this will reportedly stop the Nurses interfering every time my GP requests an HB1ac test at my annual medical review at the Doctors health centre.,</p><p></p><p>you would have thought the Nurses or if not a GP might have phoned me back to set a higher dosage for the new insulin rather than just leave it hanging over the Easter holidays I will definitely not go back to see them now and this is certainly grounds for a serious complaint.</p><p></p><p>Apparently I need to be more assertive and tell the GP that I do not want the practice nurses treating my Diabetes as I cannot be confident that they will have the patience to do the job properly. And therefore I feel that my condition would be better managed at the Hospital Specialist Clinic.</p><p></p><p>It was this clinic that put me on Humalog and Lantus to give me more control about 4 years ago.</p><p></p><p>I have a graph available at <a href="http://www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk/</a> which shows each different type of insulin and how it works.</p><p>The new insulin they have put me on to reduce morning highs does the same thing as Humulin M3 which is what they had me on many years ago</p><p>it did not lower my morning highs at all so I managed to get to see the Hospital Clinic staff and they put me on Lantus and Humalog which I found easier to manage.</p><p>my problem is caring for my parents in the middle of the night my sugars drop so I have to eat and this gives me high sugars in the mornings but the Nurses at the GP clinic are not willing to listen to what I am going through I sleep when I can and I'm up all night most nights getting my Dad back to his bed because he falls over getting up to go to the toilet and I can't lift him because I have an inguinal hernia that cannot be operated on because I am on anticoagulants that no surgeon wants to take me off of to operate on me. I just have to put a chair in front of my Father and coax him to get up on his own when he is ready.</p><p>No surgeon wants to give me a general anaesthetic either because that can cause blood clots.</p><p></p><p>My Father won't allow social services into the house to do an assessment he is old-school and truly believes they will take his house away to pay for his care. I have to respect his wishes and try my best to cope with it all.</p><p></p><p>Miss Marple being on anticoagulants and eating spinach is a no no for me as it would stop my blood platelets sticking together so much that if I cut myself my blood would never clot. however I do eat plenty of fresh fruit and veg every day and fully understand the importance of eating properly. for the time being I have increased the dose of Insuman comb 25 to 24 units twice a day from 20 units twice a day I have 3 viles left of this then its back to my old regime of Lantus and Humalog again until I can get to see a GP or specialist at the Hospital., I will persevere with the insuman comb 25 for as long as it lasts but after that I don't want to see it again as it makes me feel sick Taking it. I shall monitor my sugars three times a day to give them the benefit of the doubt as to weather or not it helped change my high sugars in the mornings. I haven't once had a hypo on the insuman comb 25 I used to get close to hypos on Lantus and Humalog but I always felt them coming with pins and needles in my forehead and cheeks I'd get the shakes sometimes as well but only after having elevated sugars for several days then dropping low again. I have never had to have assistance from someone else whilst taking Lantus and Humalog and I think that is what worries me most of all living alone if they change my insulin and I have hypo at night or when I'm asleep will I wake up?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xan2cv, post: 818026, member: 172718"] Hello all, Thank you for your replies, firstly the Nurse is at my GP's Health Centre. I have tonight received a call back from Diabeties.org.uk and spoke with a counsellor for about an Hour and she has given me a lot of options to consider. firstly I have to calm down as this has well and truly wound me up especially one day before the Easter bank hols, secondly apparently I have the right to ask my GP who is a good GP regardless of the staff she hires to work at the practice, to ask her to refer me to the Hospital Diabetes clinic for all my future Diabetes care, this will reportedly stop the Nurses interfering every time my GP requests an HB1ac test at my annual medical review at the Doctors health centre., you would have thought the Nurses or if not a GP might have phoned me back to set a higher dosage for the new insulin rather than just leave it hanging over the Easter holidays I will definitely not go back to see them now and this is certainly grounds for a serious complaint. Apparently I need to be more assertive and tell the GP that I do not want the practice nurses treating my Diabetes as I cannot be confident that they will have the patience to do the job properly. And therefore I feel that my condition would be better managed at the Hospital Specialist Clinic. It was this clinic that put me on Humalog and Lantus to give me more control about 4 years ago. I have a graph available at [URL]http://www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk/[/URL] which shows each different type of insulin and how it works. The new insulin they have put me on to reduce morning highs does the same thing as Humulin M3 which is what they had me on many years ago it did not lower my morning highs at all so I managed to get to see the Hospital Clinic staff and they put me on Lantus and Humalog which I found easier to manage. my problem is caring for my parents in the middle of the night my sugars drop so I have to eat and this gives me high sugars in the mornings but the Nurses at the GP clinic are not willing to listen to what I am going through I sleep when I can and I'm up all night most nights getting my Dad back to his bed because he falls over getting up to go to the toilet and I can't lift him because I have an inguinal hernia that cannot be operated on because I am on anticoagulants that no surgeon wants to take me off of to operate on me. I just have to put a chair in front of my Father and coax him to get up on his own when he is ready. No surgeon wants to give me a general anaesthetic either because that can cause blood clots. My Father won't allow social services into the house to do an assessment he is old-school and truly believes they will take his house away to pay for his care. I have to respect his wishes and try my best to cope with it all. Miss Marple being on anticoagulants and eating spinach is a no no for me as it would stop my blood platelets sticking together so much that if I cut myself my blood would never clot. however I do eat plenty of fresh fruit and veg every day and fully understand the importance of eating properly. for the time being I have increased the dose of Insuman comb 25 to 24 units twice a day from 20 units twice a day I have 3 viles left of this then its back to my old regime of Lantus and Humalog again until I can get to see a GP or specialist at the Hospital., I will persevere with the insuman comb 25 for as long as it lasts but after that I don't want to see it again as it makes me feel sick Taking it. I shall monitor my sugars three times a day to give them the benefit of the doubt as to weather or not it helped change my high sugars in the mornings. I haven't once had a hypo on the insuman comb 25 I used to get close to hypos on Lantus and Humalog but I always felt them coming with pins and needles in my forehead and cheeks I'd get the shakes sometimes as well but only after having elevated sugars for several days then dropping low again. I have never had to have assistance from someone else whilst taking Lantus and Humalog and I think that is what worries me most of all living alone if they change my insulin and I have hypo at night or when I'm asleep will I wake up? [/QUOTE]
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