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- I dislike people who swear a lot, shout and are rude. I dislike people who tell me what I should and should not be doing when they haven't the first idea about Diabetes.
I am really upset about the lack of support that I have found from the Diabetic Nurses who should be helping me. I was diagnosed in March of this year when I had ketonacidosis (sp). I am in my early 60's and it was at first thought I had type 2 but quickly realised I had gone into type 1.
I was sent home with glucose levels in the high 20's and told as I would be doing more at home than in hospital the levels would come down. Well, they did, as I am an active person and grooming dogs was good therapy. Then things started to go wrong when I develped Polymyalgia Rhematica and had to go onto steroids. My glucose levels shot up and I was struggling to understand the units of insulin I needed to keep them in single figures without going into a hypo or going too high.
When I phoned the Diabetic clinic to speak to a nurse for advice I was told off and told I should know what to do. But I didn't know what to do. I was told to eat carbs and not to be so silly.
Is this really the way to speak to a lady in her 60's, who's scared stiff of diabetes? Scared stiff of doing the wrong thing and ending up in hospital?
I might add that I also look after my husband who has dementia. Things can get scary and sometimes a kind voice saying ok, here's what you do is better than being told off.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
I was sent home with glucose levels in the high 20's and told as I would be doing more at home than in hospital the levels would come down. Well, they did, as I am an active person and grooming dogs was good therapy. Then things started to go wrong when I develped Polymyalgia Rhematica and had to go onto steroids. My glucose levels shot up and I was struggling to understand the units of insulin I needed to keep them in single figures without going into a hypo or going too high.
When I phoned the Diabetic clinic to speak to a nurse for advice I was told off and told I should know what to do. But I didn't know what to do. I was told to eat carbs and not to be so silly.
Is this really the way to speak to a lady in her 60's, who's scared stiff of diabetes? Scared stiff of doing the wrong thing and ending up in hospital?
I might add that I also look after my husband who has dementia. Things can get scary and sometimes a kind voice saying ok, here's what you do is better than being told off.
Anyone else had a similar experience?