alliebee
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Thank god for the " online rubbish" then.
I am starting to get a feeling that in a few years there are going to be a number of 'miracle' patients. All of us agreeing with the HCP that we eat carbs, don't monitor and take the meds prescribed, then we all go home do our own thing and keep our blood sugar under control by doing so. I can just see the headlines 'Doctors Baffled by Rise in Non Progressive Diabetes. Unfortunately it will also back up the advise that they are giving people if they don't know that we aren't following it.
Having said that I am not going to be shouting out to my nurse that I am reduced carbing and self testing, not after the disapproval last time.
This is why I like these forums, I always thought I was the only one to have any problems with a GP. When I had a heart attack in the Drs office I was told to go home I was only having an panic attack ! The hospital went ballistic when I told them .. Have a fair bit of damage to my heart now caused by panic attacks!
Edit to add .. My life's to short to get into a fight with the medical staff
Its awful they need to advise the party line due to NICE guidlines for insurance policy. But its so wrong
Thank you, I look after my own health care now.. don't fancy another heart bypass op so don't need the Dr any more !!! but sometimes it would be good to ave some where medic wise to turn to.Hi Enclave and Dibbles,
I think there are many of us with problematic ignorant GPs.
My partner has colon cancer and I hustled for a full blood count to be done, as he was severely anaemic and nobody was looking out for him (his GP was off sick herself for quite a while) My GP rang me to tell me off, saying I couldn't expect a nurse to explain a FBC to me! I signed the Hippocratic oath in 1969 - before this GP was born - did Fellowship in Immunohaematology, and worked in Haematology for nigh on 40 yrs. What part do I need explained to me? These dopes know nothing about their patients She then noticed his haemoglobin was 77 and her attitude changed abruptly. Funny that! I don't see this GP any more and see my partner's GP as she IS willing to do a good job.
Take care of your heart, Enclave - I do hope you have a good doc now, helping you with this. I have all the symtoms of IST, so I went to this same GP who commented on my Holter results, that 3 hrs + of my heart rate being over 130 bpm, was "relatively normal". What the Holter didn't show is that I was gasping for breath and couldn't move for much of that time - oh, very normal!! She mused upon the fact that at 2 a.m. my heart rate shot up to 140+ , so I said sarcastically, that I must have been doing calisthenics in my sleep. I self-medicate now and buy my drugs from Mexico.
I expect there are thousands of us with totally inadequate GPs and ,yes, doctors are dangerous - and being paid handsomely too. I suppose complaints to their professional body might help, but until my partner is well again, I fear reprisals.
I am so upset. I was diagnosed with type II on 8 Sept 2014 and put on Metformin a week later. My readings were 66 and 8.2 however you like to read it. I have cut out sugar (apart from a bit of fruit), stopped drinking alcohol, stopped smoking, started going to the gym and have lost half a stone in weight. I was given a meter this morning and did a check after fasting and my BG was 8.4. I don't understand I have been so good. I only had broccoli and stilton soup (homemade) with oatcakes last night. I feel like going home stuffing my face with cream cakes, opening a bottle of wine and smoking a packet of cigarettes seems to keep my BG lower
I asked my DBN about the Newcastle diet .. her reply was "never heard of it .. it will just be a load of poppycock" .. eat more carbs and drink fizzy drinks ..along with lots of fruit .. I think she was trying to kill me, and almost did !!!!1Quite so, Alliebee, but what do they make of the Newcastle study that took a small cohort of recently diagnosed Type 2s, and reversed the diabetes after maintaining them on a 600 cal per day diet? I wonder if they ever read new papers being published?
Thank you, I look after my own health care now.. don't fancy another heart bypass op so don't need the Dr any more !!! but sometimes it would be good to ave some where medic wise to turn to.
Have got to go on a low fat diet because of cholesterol,low fat,low carbs what is there left to eat I ask myself.
I also have heart problems ! It is sad that help is out there but only if the Drs are willing to help !I know what you mean, Enclave. I was referred to the local Cardiac Dept. Decent old buffer, but absolutely useless. You feel so lonely without a wise doc to consult. It really saddened me to observe how the standard of care in the NHS plunged so badly.
Wow, bluetit, you got a great team looking after you there, hope you can sing their praises in every way .. It's not something you come accross every day. The hospital that did my heart op were amazing .. But the Drs back up was dismal ... I fact it was only my getting a second opinion that got me to the hospital, my dr insisting my heart attacks were nothing more than stress attacks, andto quote my dr ... I was lying about i how I felt .. Right moved 600 miles away from there and I still have rubbish medical support !!!! It must be me !I can't praise the NHS enough for what they did to me during my breast cancer. Caught on a national breast screening programme, surgery within 2 weeks, chemo shortly after that, radiotherapy shortly after that, Herceptin infusions every 3 weeks for 12 months at a cost of £1600 a time, chemo nurses amazing, oncologist amazing, radiologists amazing, local District Nurses amazing, my GP amazing. Top class.
Yes. Been there and done that. Different cancer super treatmentI can't praise the NHS enough for what they did to me during my breast cancer. Caught on a national breast screening programme, surgery within 2 weeks, chemo shortly after that, radiotherapy shortly after that, Herceptin infusions every 3 weeks for 12 months at a cost of £1600 a time, chemo nurses amazing, oncologist amazing, radiologists amazing, local District Nurses amazing, my GP amazing. Top class.
I was diagnosed Type2 In June and told Atkins diet was a definite NO! I subsequently had an appointment with a dietician who told me I should have three meals a day evenly spaced and to include about 50 gms of carbohydrate per meal (a total of 150gm daily). I have tried to follow that advice by eating two slices of granary toast or Ready Brek for breakfast, a sandwich made from two slices of the same bread with some protein and salad for lunch and meat, fish or chicken with green veg and a few new potatoes for evening meal. SO far since diagnosis I have lost 13 kilos and my HbA1c has dropped from 7.3 to 6.4. My doctor says I can continue as I am without any medication. I don't eat sweets, cakes or biscuits except for the odd occasion (like my recent birthday) when I allow myself a small treat and I have a 10 calorie jelly pot with some berries if I want a dessert. Am I just incredibly lucky that this seems to be working for me?Finally got to a diabetic clinic meeting. I never said much about what I had been learning from books and the internet, I explained that I had been testing my BG on a regular basis and they asked me why? I explained that I like to know what was going on, and that some days even though it would seem that the metformin is working as it was below 10, there are some days when it spikes into the teens, this is when I will go a walk and try to get this down. I was basically given a telling off and felt like a naughty child, I was told to stop testing my BG alltogether and that I should just trust that the meds are working. They went on to chat about food and asked the group what we were eating, I explained I was cutting down on carbs to reduce my BG and that was working, I was shot down again and I was told this is nonscence and I must eat carbs every time I eat anything. I was even told to take a high carb snack with me where ever I go because "Carbs regulate my blood sugar" I just kind of zoned out after that, I felt like I couldn't do right for doing wrong... You know? That feeling?
I feel like ****, really deflated, I thought I was doing good and this has hit me hard.
I was diagnosed Type2 In June and told Atkins diet was a definite NO! I subsequently had an appointment with a dietician who told me I should have three meals a day evenly spaced and to include about 50 gms of carbohydrate per meal (a total of 150gm daily). I have tried to follow that advice by eating two slices of granary toast or Ready Brek for breakfast, a sandwich made from two slices of the same bread with some protein and salad for lunch and meat, fish or chicken with green veg and a few new potatoes for evening meal. SO far since diagnosis I have lost 13 kilos and my HbA1c has dropped from 7.3 to 6.4. My doctor says I can continue as I am without any medication. I don't eat sweets, cakes or biscuits except for the odd occasion (like my recent birthday) when I allow myself a small treat and I have a 10 calorie jelly pot with some berries if I want a dessert. Am I just incredibly lucky that this seems to be working for me?
I can't praise the NHS enough for what they did to me during my breast cancer. Caught on a national breast screening programme, surgery within 2 weeks, chemo shortly after that, radiotherapy shortly after that, Herceptin infusions every 3 weeks for 12 months at a cost of £1600 a time, chemo nurses amazing, oncologist amazing, radiologists amazing, local District Nurses amazing, my GP amazing. Top class.
I know what you mean about bread, I also love potatoes but Ive gone cold turkey on them both, and I've found that now the poison is out of my system I no longer crave themI was diagnId on 22 sept my bs was 14.9 and my other one was 104 instead of 42 I instantly cut out fizzy drinks,chocolate and cut my bread intake from 8/10 slices a day,I am on Metformin 3 times a day have lost about 10lb in weight but levels have only gone down to 10.7 before eating today after evening meal went up to 14, I know bread is one of my problems but just love it, don't know what to replace it with,I'm a fussy eater anyway.
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