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I worry about the NHS, I really do...

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Dancing Badger

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
This is a screenshot of the diet advice for T2s from Tayside NHS (not my area, fortunately, but I suspect this is blanket advice courtesy of NHS England). The problem is some patients tend to view anything published by the NHS as gospel, readily accepting of, and compliant with, whatever advice is dished out. Makes me wonder if people with other disorders are so badly misinformed by the NHS.
 

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Dancing Badger said:
This is a screenshot of the diet advice for T2s from Tayside NHS (not my area, fortunately, but I suspect this is blanket advice courtesy of NHS England). The problem is some patients tend to view anything published by the NHS as gospel, readily accepting of, and compliant with, whatever advice is dished out. Makes me wonder if people with other disorders are so badly misinformed by the NHS.
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As a kid in our house we ate, as well as mum feeding others on the street, a varied diet of all the cheese, meats, fats etc. We cooked with lard and I remember my mum would only buy the chops with the thickest fat on which we all devoured! Admittedly we were running around a lot but I only put on weight after my own daughter was born and adopted the low fat diet, thinking that was healthy. I am the thinnest I have been for years and that's due to eating good fats etc and exercise. I just despair at the nhs recommendations for type 2s. My auntie died of type2 complications many, many years ago. She was Italian, but not even the olive oil and good fats could save her, she lived off the pasta and sauces etc. She followed the nhs recommendations for type 2 I suspect. Something I will never do. I question everything I am advised to do and follow my own gut feelings. Thank goodness I found this place.
 
So depressing, it really is. One wonders how much else of their advice is so wrong.
 
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So depressing, it really is. One wonders how much else of their advice is so wrong.
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Exactly! I remember years ago I was a wheezy after a cold. I went to a gp at my surgery (I was unable to get my allocated gp), the gp didn't even look at me and handed me antibiotics, I was heavily pregnant at the time. It was only during my routine check up with my normal gp that he said I should never have been prescribed that particular antibiotic as he didn't know what the possible side effects it could have on my unborn child. His words were " we will have to wait until baby's born" Thankfully he was fine, but not the point! Something I have never forgotten and from then on I have questioned everything.
 
I went to the doctors about 4 years ago, with very painful gut ache, i was told without any examination, it was just an extension of my peripheral neuropathy. Just take paracetamol. 4 days later i was blue lighted into hospital with an infected inflamed bowel, Gall bladder and appendix, thankfully the latter 2 just due to proximity to the bowel section infected. It took paracetamol and morphine to be able to get me to the ambulance. That was when my Diverticular disease was diagnosed. 4 days in hospital and a week after coming out the doctor commented on my raised inflammatory markers, to which i pointed out it was probably the infection he failed to notice.
 
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