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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2305364" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>If you go to your profile (top right of the screen) you can add all sorts of useful info, such as type of diabetes, and the meds you are on. Some of that then appears under your avatar pic, or in your signature, so it saves people from having to ask the same questions over and over again, in different threads.</p><p></p><p>it sounds like you are having a very stressful and distressing time of it! </p><p></p><p>My suggestion would be to contact your doctor and ask, very insistently , for a referral as soon as possible, to specialists to see your kidneys, and someone to look at your diabetes. Even if these appointments are over the phone, or via Facetime, or something. You can specifically ask to see someone with experience in steroid induced D, which may help get you a referral to a clinic rather than just another general practitioner. If you have a relationship with an endocrinologist already, then it may make it easier to ask for a referral to them for your blood glucose too. I suspect that you would need a referral for the endo to treat your D, even though you are already seeing them for something else.</p><p></p><p>regarding your blood glucose levels, yours are unacceptably high, and you need treatment in order to bring them down. Levels as you describe bring a risk of more DKA and your doc should be taking them seriously, whatever your unreliable HbA1c is showing (unreliable because you have anaemia).</p><p></p><p>Please do insist on a second opinion/referral and ask to bring your nurse appointment forward. Levels that high need addressing as soon as possible.</p><p>In the meantime, please keep monitoring those ketones.</p><p></p><p>Best wishes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2305364, member: 41816"] If you go to your profile (top right of the screen) you can add all sorts of useful info, such as type of diabetes, and the meds you are on. Some of that then appears under your avatar pic, or in your signature, so it saves people from having to ask the same questions over and over again, in different threads. it sounds like you are having a very stressful and distressing time of it! My suggestion would be to contact your doctor and ask, very insistently , for a referral as soon as possible, to specialists to see your kidneys, and someone to look at your diabetes. Even if these appointments are over the phone, or via Facetime, or something. You can specifically ask to see someone with experience in steroid induced D, which may help get you a referral to a clinic rather than just another general practitioner. If you have a relationship with an endocrinologist already, then it may make it easier to ask for a referral to them for your blood glucose too. I suspect that you would need a referral for the endo to treat your D, even though you are already seeing them for something else. regarding your blood glucose levels, yours are unacceptably high, and you need treatment in order to bring them down. Levels as you describe bring a risk of more DKA and your doc should be taking them seriously, whatever your unreliable HbA1c is showing (unreliable because you have anaemia). Please do insist on a second opinion/referral and ask to bring your nurse appointment forward. Levels that high need addressing as soon as possible. In the meantime, please keep monitoring those ketones. Best wishes. [/QUOTE]
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