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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)


I am still finding stones and cement 'hidden' from my waterboard work...grrr

>^..^<
 

I’m hoping that some TLC (water with a good feed) might resurrect the poor plants. They’re relatively ‘young,’ ie not yet woody so they will hopefully recover.
 

I hope she has a ‘lesser’ diagnosis. Crossing fingers.
Among well trained efficient GPs there are still some dinosaurs to be found, who dismiss health concerns with an arrogant brush off.
There is a problem when the ‘only’ qualification to enable a person to study medicine are high enough exam passes. There should be a personality check too to sift out the ones who have no concept of communication and poor empathy.
 
6.7 Friday morning. Late fireworks from the parking deck across the street last night had the KittenCat taking refuge under the sofa, poor baby. I coaxed her out with a trail of treats, as it was partly my fault for opening the window the better to watch such close-up pyrotechnics. I'd forgotten just how noisy fireworks are close-up! I felt so guilty for not thinking about her -- they hadn't bothered her at all when the window was closed earlier.

Note to animal owners: you can't smell punk from a couple of hundred yards away so don't bother opening the window.
 
In the end after breakfast (full english of course) I decided to catch up on some sleep

Tested again just before lunch to be met by a 4.1; not hypo but definitely low for me.

Time for a nice juicy steak for lunch.

So far all I am doing is eating and sleeping
 
Great numbers @pavlosn. May not make for a great sight seeing holiday if it continues but perfect for bg.
 
Hugs to the KC I am sure the treats went a long way to forgive you! Our Ginger hated fireworks at Guy Fawkes in neighbours garden and would get under the baby cot right in the corner against the wall and quiver. However Bobs and Daisy dont react probably it was the least of all evils before they were rescued by the shelter.
 
Not my first time in London by a long shot so sightseeing is not a major priority. Relaxing and getting mind off recent health worries much more so. And trying to get my wife to stop worrying so much about me.

Just finished a great lunch just across from Hyde park and now heading there for an afternoon walk prior to returning there for tonight's concert.
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Great numbers @pavlosn. May not make for a great sight seeing holiday if it continues but perfect for bg.
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Agree. Women especially seem to be given the brush off a lot. I worked with a young girl who was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s after years of being told it was just something she’d eaten, or might be lactose intolerance. By 26 yes old she’d had half her bowel removed and a colostomy bag and was on lifelong steroids. Another young woman, daughter of a friend was told to get some relaxation tapes by her GP - she had MS and kept falling over, she died before she was 30. Makes me so cross that medical opinion seems stuck in the Victorian era when women were called hysterical
 

Agree. Young Women especially seem to be given the brush off a lot. I worked with a young girl who was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s after years of being told it was just something she’d eaten, or might be lactose intolerance. By 26 yes old she’d had half her bowel removed and a colostomy bag and was on lifelong steroids. Another young woman, daughter of a friend was told to get some relaxation tapes by her GP - she had MS and kept falling over, she died before she was 30. Makes me so cross that medical opinion seems stuck in the Victorian era when women were called hysterical
 
I agree @DJC3
I was called hysterical by male GP's in the 70's and early 80's. My young children would find me collapsed and unconscious. They called GP. I was a single mother.
GP always said I was suffering from hysteria and all I need was smelling salts and pull myself together.
Finally in about 1983 I saw a female doctor, who said, and I still remember her words, 'You silly girl, your'e suffering from asthma. Didn't you know?'
How the heck was I supposed to know? I didn't know what asthma was. And it was the words 'You silly girl...' that really got me.
I ended up with 2 inhalers.
And the damage was done with my children, because these authoritative male doctors told them I was a hysterical mother who needed to get a grip of herself.

Then many years later in the mid 2000's I kept having problems with my throat constricting and severe breathing problems. My current GP then, kept saying I was having panic attacks, but I knew it wasn't that. But I had no idea what it was. I was being belittled and humiliated again. He refused to send me for further investigations.

But I was attending the dental hospital in Liverpool at the time, and I explained to my specialist there, a woman. She examined me, said she thought she knew what it was, and referred me for an endoscopy. To cut a long story short, I was diagnosed with poor throat muscles which seized up, and when that happened the breathing tube which runs alongside it, seized up also, and I passed out. The specialist told me by passing out what happens is the body relaxes, and my throat muscles and breathing tube relaxed and I could breathe again. The specialist told me not to be scared of it. I ended up with meds, sprays and strategies. Which I still have to use. And I have never passed out again.

I reported my doctor...and he became the subject of an investigation. It wasn't me, but another investigation of a much higher profile person who died because of my GP, caused my GP to lose his job...

Why are these GP's allowed to call women hysterical?
I have an older friend who was told she was having panic attacks. But her neighbour took her to the hospital. And she was diagnosed with throat cancer. She was lucky, she survived.

But these stories never stop...

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