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Its Always Put Down To T1

michaela2015

michaela2015

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Is it just me or does this happen to everyone else ...... i dont go to the doctors often but every time i do go my ailments are always put down to my diabetes??
I just dont feel like in been taken seriously and just fobbed off
 
No not just you, my first gp when diagnosed was much the same :)
 
Hey - ah that's not fun.. I have to admit I have the opposite, trying to convince mine that my issues are diabetic related..

I think it also depends on what your ailments are, they may see a direct link possibly, however regardless they should be offering you treatment to help you ;)
 
michaela2015 said:
Is it just me or does this happen to everyone else ...... i dont go to the doctors often but every time i do go my ailments are always put down to my diabetes??
I just dont feel like in been taken seriously and just fobbed off
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To be honest, it happens right across the board with all permanent heath conditions. I also have Crohn's and was only diagnosed as diabetic in November last year, but I started to lose weight prior to that because of diabetes and my gastro consultant decided the weight loss had to be down to the Crohn's.

Obviously I have put the weight back on now and he accepted it was nothing to do with Crohn's. So I get different consultants always putting things down to the one condition they are treating!
 
MickyFinn said:
To be honest, it happens right across the board with all permanent heath conditions. I also have Crohn's and was only diagnosed as diabetic in November last year, but I started to lose weight prior to that because of diabetes and my gastro consultant decided the weight loss had to be down to the Crohn's.

Obviously I have put the weight back on now and he accepted it was nothing to do with Crohn's. So I get different consultants always putting things down to the one condition they are treating!
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Insurance companies also make these connections. I had health insurance that would not pay out for 'diabetes induced stroke', which was a pre existing condition declared when I started their policy. It can be worse if you have a car smash involving injury. You will have to provide readings taken within the hour before the accident to prove that diabetes was not affecting your ability to drive. You need to declare your condition to them when you take the policy out, otherwise the policy is invalid and void (preexisting condition undeclared)
 
Oldvatr said:
Insurance companies also make these connections. I had health insurance that would not pay out for 'diabetes induced stroke', which was a pre existing condition declared when I started their policy. It can be worse if you have a car smash involving injury. You will have to provide readings taken within the hour before the accident to prove that diabetes was not affecting your ability to drive. You need to declare your condition to them when you take the policy out, otherwise the policy is invalid and void (preexisting condition undeclared)
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I was made aware of the need to notify my car insurer upon diagnosis, along with the DVLA etc. I expect no difference from insurance companies to be honest, so I don't doubt they take that line.

Just after I was diagnosed with Crohn's, about 11 years ago, I looked into private health care because I had been made to wait four months to see a consultant while my health took a dive, I lost four stone and my GP insisted there was nothing wrong with me, although he did inform me I had abnormal blood. I found out then that pre-existing health conditions would not have been covered under medical insurance, so I never bothered.
 
Diabetes can make you itch
Opiates can make you itch
Fatty liver can make you itch
Hay fever can make you itch
Soap powder can make you itch
Ok just give me something to stop me clawing the skin off my bones, was prescribed an anti itch cream, guess what it did.
I now use a mixture of lemon juice, oil and salt rubbed all over, cut nails short.
 
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Shar67 said:
Diabetes can make you itch
Opiates can make you itch
Fatty liver can make you itch
Hay fever can make you itch
Soap powder can make you itch
Ok just give me something to stop me clawing the skin of my bones, was prescribed an anti itch cream, guess what it did.
I now use a mixture of lemon juice, oil and salt rubbed all over, cut nails short.
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Poson Ivy will akways make you itch!
 
It is not just type 1. As a type 2 everything is also just "the diabetes" except it is not. Frustrating to say the least.
 
michaela2015 said:
Is it just me or does this happen to everyone else ...... i dont go to the doctors often but every time i do go my ailments are always put down to my diabetes??
I just dont feel like in been taken seriously and just fobbed off
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Hiya, yep; some (ok many) years ago I two weeks off work sick. My GP put dizziness and diabetes on my sick note; turns out I had glandular fever xx
 
Ah yes it's all to do with diabetes. I've moved around a lot and as a result I've seen a lot of doctors who don't have my medical files accessible immediately. So I have whittled down an explanation of my diabetes which I rattle off and then explain how it is unlikely to be linked..
The more information you have about your own health the better, and the less they can fob off on it just being a diabetes thing!
 
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