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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
So yesterday had a phone call from admin at the GP surgery. Some months ago my optician wrote to GP and requested I be referred for retinopathy screening as I hadn't had any since being diagnosed in March 2020.
Admin was calling to say they we not going to refer me because the Diabetes Nurse, (who I met only once and after I had lost 3 stone and got my bg down to normal levels) had said on my record that I had "No clinical signs of diabetes" and therefore shouldn't be referred. Turns out the GP who initially phoned me with diagnosis in the first mad week of lockdown hadn't put on my record that I had diabetes, and the second GP I had a phone conversation with had only noted my cholesterol level, nothing about diabetes even though there was long discussion about how I should be seeing a DN, but the position was vacant at the time.
So according to them now, I am not and never was diabetic.
However I know from my meter, and from my lack of symptoms (better vision, less peeing) having changed to low carb that I am.
So, by controlling my bg and losing weight I seem to have shot myself in the foot and removed myself from any future tests, help or support from NHS.
If I try and argue that I have diabetes ( albeit in remission now) they are intimating that i am making it up, because neither doctor updated my record properly and the DN has refused to entertain the idea that I have managed to put myself into remission.
I didn't imagine the 2 telephone calls with different GPs but have no proof of what was said. Because I took action quickly and reduced my bg they won't recognise the one diabetic reading I had and I'm being made to feel hypochondriac for testing my own bg.
I don't want to eat carbs for months and/or put on the weight just to raise my hba1c again
Ideas/ suggestions please?
There no other surgery within easy distance.
Admin was calling to say they we not going to refer me because the Diabetes Nurse, (who I met only once and after I had lost 3 stone and got my bg down to normal levels) had said on my record that I had "No clinical signs of diabetes" and therefore shouldn't be referred. Turns out the GP who initially phoned me with diagnosis in the first mad week of lockdown hadn't put on my record that I had diabetes, and the second GP I had a phone conversation with had only noted my cholesterol level, nothing about diabetes even though there was long discussion about how I should be seeing a DN, but the position was vacant at the time.
So according to them now, I am not and never was diabetic.
However I know from my meter, and from my lack of symptoms (better vision, less peeing) having changed to low carb that I am.
So, by controlling my bg and losing weight I seem to have shot myself in the foot and removed myself from any future tests, help or support from NHS.
If I try and argue that I have diabetes ( albeit in remission now) they are intimating that i am making it up, because neither doctor updated my record properly and the DN has refused to entertain the idea that I have managed to put myself into remission.
I didn't imagine the 2 telephone calls with different GPs but have no proof of what was said. Because I took action quickly and reduced my bg they won't recognise the one diabetic reading I had and I'm being made to feel hypochondriac for testing my own bg.
I don't want to eat carbs for months and/or put on the weight just to raise my hba1c again
Ideas/ suggestions please?
There no other surgery within easy distance.