Righteo folks, I've been in personal contact with Sameer. He lives in Karachi, Pakistan. Access to doctors cost him £20 a pop and the doctors don't seem to care about the quality of service they provide, only about the money. He told me they didn't care when he contacted them regarding this predicament.
I think we can all appreciate how difficult this is for him. He's newly diagnosed, has frequent hypos (we all remember how scary these are when first diagnosed) and he has a doctor that doesn't care. Above all he doesn't have access to a free health service that we UK residents have and I imagine that Pakistan's health service and diabetes care isn't anywhere near up to NHS standards (as much as we moan about it, I imagine Pakistan is much worse). I don't know anything about Sameer's finances, but I image £20 in Pakistan is probably quite a lot of money.
Now we know this context, I hope we can all be more patient with him, as I would be petrified as just as anxious as he is.
He said he is going to change his doctors. In the meantime I've told him to lower his dose and keep an eye out for when they start to rise again when he comes out of his honeymoon period (if that what this is). Obviously, it's difficult for us to be prescriptive, but I think he doesn't have much choice other than relying on experienced folk like ourselves.
