Niggle about diabetes nurse

[DavidGrahamJones]

Any advice on how to "be" during these appointments would be welcome.

I would suggest putting yourself in her place, it's quite possible that her questions were not asked in an accusing manner. Please remember that in a surgery where there might be a few as 4500 patients, possibly 6% will be diabetic or 270 people.(Source Diabetes.co.uk). I would have thought that being asked if you had a sweet tooth was just a way of deciding what to say next. Sweet tooth? Well that's got to stop!

Don't blame yourself, big mistake and a waste of time. Much better to decide if there are any changes you should be making to keep your BG in line with the recommendations and then trying to adhere to those changes.

 

[Lowcarb 2]

I had my first diabetes check back in February. I'd been diagnosed last November so was still feeling overwhelmed and scared by it. Something about the diabetes nurse during my check has been niggling at me ever since. The first question she asked me was if I was aware what the appointment was about and I had to voice out loud that I had been diagnosed and it was a first check up. Then she asked in a kind of sweet but greasy way "do you eat a lot of sweet things?". I told her truthfully that no, I don't have a particularly sweet tooth.
I started to get a bit upset and ashamed to say was shedding a few silent tears and she was totally stony-faced with me.
I came away feeling, without her uttering a word out of place, as though she judged me and blamed me for my predicament. And since I blame myself for it anyway, came away from it feeling very quashed.
I have my next check later this month and am dreading it. I don't think I'm being hypersensitive about it since the first appointment has been niggling me ever since.
Any advice on how to "be" during these appointments would be welcome.

go on with head held high it's your body not you, I felt the same i thought people were judiging me and that maybe I wasn,t telling the truth about my life style and some how it was my fault I was diabetic, I attended a course that made me realize some people become diabetic without any related background of it, I was mid 50's average weight and not what I thought was due to typical of type 2 diabetics, unhealthy and ooverweight, I did a lot of why me and three years down the line i still do not a definite answer as to why