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My Doc Says ...

Heathenlass said:
Uhhhh Duh ??
"Oh yeah, I'll take the ketone strips, they will be SO handy when I go into DKA from not being able to test my BG !"

What was the outcome of this in the end ?

Signy
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Lol, exactly. I had to explain it several times to the receptionist who wrote it all down word for word to let the Dr know exactly what each strip tested for and why both were needed in basic terms. I got my prescription after that for both types of strips.
 
I had a locum once and after he nay sayed me about my condition, I mentioned that I had disruptive sleep and vivid, weird dreams.
He said, 'lose weight'. When I told him I had lost a couple of pounds the previous week, he said 'there you go'.
I asked him if it could be nighttime hypos,, he said, T2s don't get nighttime hypos!
I reported him to the GP who runs the surgery.
 
Fortunately my gp and diabetes team are great. The only thing I'm concerned about is my dietitian - she told me I shouldn't take novorapid when eating nuts, but should increase my basal so it will "cover them".
I don't think she understands what's the meaning of basal...
 
Heathenlass said:
Inspired by the thread "What Stupid Things Have People Said to you",
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These relate to my previous GP, and surgery.
-When I was first diagnosed my GP wouldn't prescribe any medication, he decided to let the consultant do it, I eventually go to see him at the earliest opportunity, 5 months later. It was 1997, hopefully doesn't happen now.
-When I was prescribed Metformin for the first time I was warned that it might give me the runs for a couple of weeks. After 5 years of making excuses for not attending functions with friends, I summoned up the courage to tell the GP, enough was enough.
-Same endocrinologist, he prescribed Atorvastatin and he said it was better than a quadruple bypass, he didn't say anything about the muscle pain, sleeplessness or brain fog.
-Supplied some urine for GP to do a test while I was in his office and when I asked what he was testing he just said "just making sure everything is OK". Obviously thought I was as thick as two short planks.
-Surgery rang after I'd had a blood test to say that I had osteoporosis, which I didn't believe. GP made it worse when he said that I actually had osteo rheumatoid arthritis. I didn't argue, I have a friend who is a GP in Middlesborough, she thought it was funny (haha funny) and suggested that he was just hedging his bets. I have osteoarthritis.
-I was prescribed Rosiglitazone instead of Metformin and when I complained about weight gain I was told that was just being over anxious and prescribed citilapram.
-When I complained of muscle pain GP said it was because of my weight, despite it starting when I started taking Simvastatin.
-A year later he said it was because I exercised too much.
That's most of it, I might end up writing a book.
 

How very right you are Squire Fulwood, I don't know how many of you are aware but this past week has been 'National Dietitians Week'. I work at a hospital and could not resist stopping at their stall. I asked them what the latest doctrine was re diabetes and was told: 'We recommend complex carbs at every meal, specifically at Breakfast'.

I told her that research in other countries has shown this to be a bad idea and that the 'eat well plate' is considered in some countries to be the 'eat bad plate'. She replied that they were not allowed to comment on items in the media or what was happening in other countries and that they had very strict guidelines to follow!!!

This really upset me as I know some diabetics who are blindly following this mantra because they are the 'professionals'. However, they are failing miserably on their low fat, high carb regime, now feel like failures and still have high sugars.

When will the government wake up and realise that a diet has to be geared to each person and that short of providing medication they are not really doing anything to help us at all.
 
I have nothing better to do at the moment and I have been re-reading some of the posts and while doing that another memory came back to me. It is just about relevant.

DN summoned up the courage to ask me if I wanted Viagra. She said she mentioned it in case I was too embarrassed to bring the subject up. (Haha, that's funny, read it again). I couldn't imagine me getting dressed up and going to a club with my Viagra sticking out of the top pocket so I declined. the offer. (I am in my seventies)

Back at home I got a phone call from the pharmacist to tell me that my test strips had been removed from the prescription and I was to get no more.

A little later I put these two thoughts together. I can't have any more test strips but I can have Viagra. The world has gone mad.

I told a thinking friend this anecdote and he suggested I accept the Viagra, sell them and buy test strips. Makes sense to me.
 
You look much younger.
 
This thread has prompted me to recount what the doctor said to me when I saw him a few weeks. He's not my doctor but one of the others in the practice and I'd never met him. He was marvelling at my HbA1c result of 35 and he asked me how I had done it. I mentioned the southport GP and pulled the report out of my bag, mentioning that he had been nominated for an award. The doctor said "let me stop you there. Harold Shipman was nominated for awards but he just didn't like old people. So be careful of doctors who smile at you." He then proceeded to smile at me broadly!!

Btw, he is the only doctor I've seen since diagnosis and I made the appointment because my hands go dead in the night, every night. He prescribed a cream which I must apply to my elbows. It's an anti inflammatory and he said I may get heartburn. When I showed it to my nurse a couple of weeks ago she had a wry smile on her face and said "hmm he does like prescribing that cream."
The doctor told me if the cream doesn't work I may have to go for conduction tests. I'm sure that's what he said anyway. I'm not musical at all so I don't think I'll pass ;-)

Don't fancy using the cream because I don't want it to affect my bg levels. Unsure.


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There seem to be a few of us with the hand thing.
 



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Am I the only one who's finding the story of this doctor downright creepy ?

Signy
 
Heathenlass, - Thank you for starting this thread. Very interesting and worrying information being provided here - to say the least.

I think I will stick with what I said in an earlier post: Not all doctors or health providers graduated top of their class. And maybe once they have their diploma, they may never go back to check about latest research or developments.

And some of them may be downright weirdoes having decided on their personal pet ideas without actually looking into the patient's situation (e.g. Viagra - Ha! - love that Squire Fulwood)

annelise
 
lt isnt just diiabetics that are treated badly l could fill a book with awful treatment given to my parents for their ailments.
 
@annelise wrote :
"I think I will stick with what I said in an earlier post: Not all doctors or health providers graduated top of their class. And maybe once they have their diploma, they may never go back to check about latest research or developments.

And some of them may be downright weirdoes having decided on their personal pet ideas without actually looking into the patient's situation (e.g. Viagra - Ha! - love that Squire Fulwood)"


I so agree ! And anyone remember this ? Art imitating life in " Blackadder "Bells" "


Edmund: Never had anything you doctors didn't try to cure with leeches. A leech on my ear for ear ache, a leech on my bottom for constipation.

Doctor: They're marvellous, aren't they?

Edmund: Well, the bottom one wasn't. I just sat there and squashed it.

Doctor: You know the leech comes to us on the highest authority?

Edmund: Yes. I know that. Dr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart, isn't it?

Doctor: That's right, the great Hoffmann.

Edmund: Owner of the largest leech farm of Europe.


Doctor: Yes. Well, I cannot spend all day gossiping. I'm a busy man. As far as this case is concerned I have now had time to think it over and I can strongly recommend a [in chorus] course of leeches.

Edmund: Yes. I 'll pop a couple down my codpiece before I go to bed ?

Signy
 
..In the days when meters and strips were reguarly prescribed, I mentioned to a GP in my practice that I'd noticed potatoes shot up my bs levels...'well you are unusual' he said 'just have them with a Sunday roast and don't test that day'...

...Laugh or cry.....
 
 
lessci- am recently diagnosed and would appreciate your take on porridge please from the example above- you are saying i presume that the porridge was ok but the dried fruit or honey substitute was not working out or may not have done had you followed the GPs substitute.The reason i ask is i am unsure about porridge au naturel even when made with water.What is your view.Yes we are all different.No i dont yet have a meter tho one on order ....
 
That made me laugh.... but I'm not under that Dr's care!
 

What a creepy doctor!
BTW, your hands sound similar to mine, I have carpal tunnel syndrome.
 
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