Hello, I have diabetes type 1 and am newly diagnosed just before christmas 2013
I suffer from bad anxiety and find social situation awful to deal with and have panic attacks so having to go to hospital and doctors and everything else has been really hard for me to do. When I was first told I was diabetic i was asked to go to the hospitals diabetes center which is a big center with lots of specialist nurse and looked good but with my anxiety I found it hard to get to it so my nurse put me on novomix 30 insulin pens 8 units twice daily and then transferred me to a closer clinic that wasn't as nice as the hospitals one but was within walking distance from my home.
My old nurse said that the insulin I was on was 'starter' insulin and wanted to get me off it asap and said she asked the new nurse to change it for me. I attended my new clinic today and the nurse was nice enough and took bloods to do a diabetes hba1c and it came 8% which she told me wasn't to bad. We talked for a while and she didn't seem like she was intending on changing my insulin even though that was the reason I was told to attend there and I said numerous times that my other nurse didn't want me on the pens I was using at that moment being the novomix 30 as this was my 'starter' pens and it didn't suit my lifestyle. After a little while she finally agreed and has now put me on 2 different insulins being levemir 6 units and novorapid 2 units with a meal. I found it quite strange I had to almost demand to be switched to another insulin even though my old nurse had said numerous times that my old pens where just for the first few week and where the best type of insulin to be on regularly. She said a few times that they were used to dealing with type 2s there mostly and it was rare to have a type 1 in their center. Another thing I also found strange was she asked how many times I checked my blood daily and I said if it had been high I would check it 6 times a day tops and she pulled a face like this was way to many and then told me to just check it once in the morning and then once before i go to sleep which I found a bit stupid to be honest as how would I know if I was to low or high throughout the day or if I was having a hypo to drink/eat something to raise my sugar levels? Also when diagnosed I was told to check it before I ate meals and did injections so i know not to inject to much. I wanted to know was I right to almost have to demand to get new different insulin? Also how many times should I be checking my blood averagely how many times would you check yours or where told to check yours? Would I be better going back to the original hospital clinic instead as they seem to know what there doing? Any advice welcome.
Thanks
I suffer from bad anxiety and find social situation awful to deal with and have panic attacks so having to go to hospital and doctors and everything else has been really hard for me to do. When I was first told I was diabetic i was asked to go to the hospitals diabetes center which is a big center with lots of specialist nurse and looked good but with my anxiety I found it hard to get to it so my nurse put me on novomix 30 insulin pens 8 units twice daily and then transferred me to a closer clinic that wasn't as nice as the hospitals one but was within walking distance from my home.
My old nurse said that the insulin I was on was 'starter' insulin and wanted to get me off it asap and said she asked the new nurse to change it for me. I attended my new clinic today and the nurse was nice enough and took bloods to do a diabetes hba1c and it came 8% which she told me wasn't to bad. We talked for a while and she didn't seem like she was intending on changing my insulin even though that was the reason I was told to attend there and I said numerous times that my other nurse didn't want me on the pens I was using at that moment being the novomix 30 as this was my 'starter' pens and it didn't suit my lifestyle. After a little while she finally agreed and has now put me on 2 different insulins being levemir 6 units and novorapid 2 units with a meal. I found it quite strange I had to almost demand to be switched to another insulin even though my old nurse had said numerous times that my old pens where just for the first few week and where the best type of insulin to be on regularly. She said a few times that they were used to dealing with type 2s there mostly and it was rare to have a type 1 in their center. Another thing I also found strange was she asked how many times I checked my blood daily and I said if it had been high I would check it 6 times a day tops and she pulled a face like this was way to many and then told me to just check it once in the morning and then once before i go to sleep which I found a bit stupid to be honest as how would I know if I was to low or high throughout the day or if I was having a hypo to drink/eat something to raise my sugar levels? Also when diagnosed I was told to check it before I ate meals and did injections so i know not to inject to much. I wanted to know was I right to almost have to demand to get new different insulin? Also how many times should I be checking my blood averagely how many times would you check yours or where told to check yours? Would I be better going back to the original hospital clinic instead as they seem to know what there doing? Any advice welcome.
Thanks