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<blockquote data-quote="leahkian" data-source="post: 1590984" data-attributes="member: 32193"><p>When i have been in hospital my BG always goes high due to been stuck in a bed, so the doctors put my insulin up to bring it down. I have had arguments with doctors and all the rest of the diabetic team telling them that once i get out of hospital that my sugar will drop low as i will be doing more than lying in bed. One of the times i was taken into hospital and put on a drip as my BG was going high to low, the doctor told the nurse to increase my insulin. I told him that it was not going to happen as my sugar was going low, he tried to get to the infusion but i stood in the way and told him i would turn the infusion off if they did not check my BG. He agreed but was not happy about it, 30 seconds later a reading of 2.4 was on the screen and the infusion was stopped and glucose was started. The doctor never said anything and walked away. When you are in hospital in the UK and you do not want to eat off the menu you can ask for a voucher to go to the canteen, i only found out this as the nurse on the ward told me but it is not something they tell you. I switched my diabetic care after a run in with a doctor about a DAFNE course which i would not attend, as i told him i had been carb counting for over 25 years and as i tried to explain to him that no 2 diabetics are the same and all the research they do with carb counting is just a average of what information they collected. The final straw was when i was given a jacket pot and told to take 8 units of insulin which i told him was too much and i would have a hypo within 2 hours. I took the 8 units and within 90 mins i was having a hypo, that is when i change my care from north Durham to Newcastle and i wish that i had done it years ago. I now see another Consultant and when i have a problem we sit down and talk about it to see what is the best course of action. The only problem is that if i am bad i have to go to my local hospital which was not what i wanted but my new Consultant told me when i get out of hospital to ring him and then to see him the next day. Now that i have had a transplant my local hospital do not want me there so they send me to Newcastle as soon as a bed is found.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leahkian, post: 1590984, member: 32193"] When i have been in hospital my BG always goes high due to been stuck in a bed, so the doctors put my insulin up to bring it down. I have had arguments with doctors and all the rest of the diabetic team telling them that once i get out of hospital that my sugar will drop low as i will be doing more than lying in bed. One of the times i was taken into hospital and put on a drip as my BG was going high to low, the doctor told the nurse to increase my insulin. I told him that it was not going to happen as my sugar was going low, he tried to get to the infusion but i stood in the way and told him i would turn the infusion off if they did not check my BG. He agreed but was not happy about it, 30 seconds later a reading of 2.4 was on the screen and the infusion was stopped and glucose was started. The doctor never said anything and walked away. When you are in hospital in the UK and you do not want to eat off the menu you can ask for a voucher to go to the canteen, i only found out this as the nurse on the ward told me but it is not something they tell you. I switched my diabetic care after a run in with a doctor about a DAFNE course which i would not attend, as i told him i had been carb counting for over 25 years and as i tried to explain to him that no 2 diabetics are the same and all the research they do with carb counting is just a average of what information they collected. The final straw was when i was given a jacket pot and told to take 8 units of insulin which i told him was too much and i would have a hypo within 2 hours. I took the 8 units and within 90 mins i was having a hypo, that is when i change my care from north Durham to Newcastle and i wish that i had done it years ago. I now see another Consultant and when i have a problem we sit down and talk about it to see what is the best course of action. The only problem is that if i am bad i have to go to my local hospital which was not what i wanted but my new Consultant told me when i get out of hospital to ring him and then to see him the next day. Now that i have had a transplant my local hospital do not want me there so they send me to Newcastle as soon as a bed is found. [/QUOTE]
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