1EYESCOT
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
Only this week, I had a 6 monthly Diabetic Review, I had been fearing the worst, as I really felt I wasn't keeping up the standards I used to have until roughly 2 years ago when I accepted a promotion within my employer and relocation to a post in the far North of Scotland. Within 6 months, after daily ritual humiliation, and what a Union rep said was the worst case of Corporate Bullying he'd ever witnessed in over 20 years, I had a Mental Breakdown. I subsequently walked out of my job and back home to the North of England.
There followed a period including 3 months off sick when my medical and medications regime went out of the window and intermittent Diabetic support plus I wasn't looking after myself, got into debt, Mortgage arrears and so on and was on a downward spiral, but legal and financial help did arrive and I got better.
Last June, I landed my current role in the Midlands and haven't looked back plus I'm in a much better place now. I also have a superb GP, and it was his Senior Nurse when I registered with them last July, and at my first Diabetic Review in 12 months found the horrendous HbA1c score at 77. Yikes, I hear you all shout!
But perseverance, some Medication changes and the help of my GP and other NHS partners got my score this week down to 51. The Nurse has said to me she wants me down to between 45 and 50 by my next review in July, but is so pleased I have got down to 51 in such a short space of time.
What is "normal" for one person, may not be for another, so I am led to understand. But what I have also learnt in the past 6 months and reinforced this week by my GP's Senior Nurse, is that the level of Education and getting to grips with the illness has been sadly lacking in my case. When I described when I was first diagnosed way back in the midst's of time, what assistance was put my way now appears utterly useless and not really appropriate at all, so she is getting me onto a refreshment course to fully understand what it is all about and how I deal with it.
My experiences with Diabetes through GP's over the past 10 years or so is now, on reflection, a mish mash! Some GP's whilst superb on mainstream medical matters, have paid only lip service on Diabetic matters; some have only gone through the motions of issuing the monthly prescriptions, but it has been the partner agencies within the NHS who have ensured that I have had my annual Retinopathy etc. I daresay, I should be grateful that my current GP and his partners are really on the ball and above all, take their time with me.
There followed a period including 3 months off sick when my medical and medications regime went out of the window and intermittent Diabetic support plus I wasn't looking after myself, got into debt, Mortgage arrears and so on and was on a downward spiral, but legal and financial help did arrive and I got better.
Last June, I landed my current role in the Midlands and haven't looked back plus I'm in a much better place now. I also have a superb GP, and it was his Senior Nurse when I registered with them last July, and at my first Diabetic Review in 12 months found the horrendous HbA1c score at 77. Yikes, I hear you all shout!
But perseverance, some Medication changes and the help of my GP and other NHS partners got my score this week down to 51. The Nurse has said to me she wants me down to between 45 and 50 by my next review in July, but is so pleased I have got down to 51 in such a short space of time.
What is "normal" for one person, may not be for another, so I am led to understand. But what I have also learnt in the past 6 months and reinforced this week by my GP's Senior Nurse, is that the level of Education and getting to grips with the illness has been sadly lacking in my case. When I described when I was first diagnosed way back in the midst's of time, what assistance was put my way now appears utterly useless and not really appropriate at all, so she is getting me onto a refreshment course to fully understand what it is all about and how I deal with it.
My experiences with Diabetes through GP's over the past 10 years or so is now, on reflection, a mish mash! Some GP's whilst superb on mainstream medical matters, have paid only lip service on Diabetic matters; some have only gone through the motions of issuing the monthly prescriptions, but it has been the partner agencies within the NHS who have ensured that I have had my annual Retinopathy etc. I daresay, I should be grateful that my current GP and his partners are really on the ball and above all, take their time with me.