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<blockquote data-quote="ladyfingers" data-source="post: 175673" data-attributes="member: 31981"><p>Thanks for all the replies and advice chaps.</p><p></p><p>Kate, your story is inspirational and just what I needed to read this morning after my trip to the GP last night.</p><p></p><p>I went to see him to get my test strips on prescription and to run my plan by him. As he was writing out the prescription he told me there was no need to test my BG as I was on Metformin and I shouldn't get hypos. I said that I wasn't particularly concerned about hypos but wanted to see what each food I ate did to my BG. He then said 'you're 47, the cells in your pancreas are dying off'. He went on to describe in great detail how my diabetes was going to progress in the future and what drugs I would have to move on to. It didn't paint a pretty picture.</p><p></p><p>I responded by saying I didn't want my diabetes to progress and in fact I want to regress it by exercising more and losing weight. He said very dismissively that I would have to lose a lot of weight and handed me my prescription. </p><p></p><p>I asked him what support he could offer me and he went of surfing on the NHS website but found nothing, he said someone would call me with the information. When I mentioned that I heard about the DESMOND course he said that it would be very good for me to attend but another search on the NHS website proved useless and another follow up phone call was promised.</p><p></p><p>I walked out of there feeling pretty frustrated, clearly my GP was more interested in diabetes than me! As far as my diabetes management is concerned I am on my own.</p><p></p><p>It's really sharpened my resolve however, I really want to teach him a lesson by walking in there one day with normal BG levels. It's a bit like when the school careers advice tells you to go for a job in the corner shop and you end up an astronaut!</p><p></p><p>Sorry, rant over <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p>Jen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ladyfingers, post: 175673, member: 31981"] Thanks for all the replies and advice chaps. Kate, your story is inspirational and just what I needed to read this morning after my trip to the GP last night. I went to see him to get my test strips on prescription and to run my plan by him. As he was writing out the prescription he told me there was no need to test my BG as I was on Metformin and I shouldn't get hypos. I said that I wasn't particularly concerned about hypos but wanted to see what each food I ate did to my BG. He then said 'you're 47, the cells in your pancreas are dying off'. He went on to describe in great detail how my diabetes was going to progress in the future and what drugs I would have to move on to. It didn't paint a pretty picture. I responded by saying I didn't want my diabetes to progress and in fact I want to regress it by exercising more and losing weight. He said very dismissively that I would have to lose a lot of weight and handed me my prescription. I asked him what support he could offer me and he went of surfing on the NHS website but found nothing, he said someone would call me with the information. When I mentioned that I heard about the DESMOND course he said that it would be very good for me to attend but another search on the NHS website proved useless and another follow up phone call was promised. I walked out of there feeling pretty frustrated, clearly my GP was more interested in diabetes than me! As far as my diabetes management is concerned I am on my own. It's really sharpened my resolve however, I really want to teach him a lesson by walking in there one day with normal BG levels. It's a bit like when the school careers advice tells you to go for a job in the corner shop and you end up an astronaut! Sorry, rant over :) Regards Jen [/QUOTE]
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