Yearly check

[Sarah69]

Hi,

I had an annual review on Monday at the hospital where I’m treated. Had a lady I’d never seen before commenting on different things. I told her I’d stopped taking Ozempic she didn’t ask why only when I stopped taking it. She flicked through my meter, which is usually downloaded when I’m there but it wasn’t this time.

When she did talk she kept saying that I should eat meals with the same amount of carbs in. I told her that I don’t really eat meals. She also said my cholesterol was high but I don’t know what it was. So kept on about statins, she said they also protect your heart against stroke and heart attack so I said if they halved my dose I’d take it, I was on 40mg. The also said my hba1c was up to abt 70 something. Told me to increase my morning lantus from 14 units to 16 I know that’s not a lot but both days at work it’s caused me to hypo twice on both days the lowest ever reading at 2.5. So I’m afraid on my next work day I will not be doing that. She checked the pulses in my feet nd prodded them with the stick thing then I was given a letter to go back in a year.

I didn’t feel comfortable with this lady and she wasn’t really interested in what I was saying.

 

[Pipp]

Are you able to get support and advice, from your GP, more frequently than an annual review? As you arevhaving issues with hypos then you should not have to wait so long between appointments.

 

[Sarah69]

I really don’t trust the gp’s advice that’s why I go to the hospital clinic. I normally go twice a year. I do have some hypos but have had more since she told me to increase my insulin to 16. I’ve gone back to 14 now. I’ll try calling the diabetic nurses at the hospital.

 

[Pipp]

I really don’t trust the gp’s advice that’s why I go to the hospital clinic. I normally go twice a year. I do have some hypos but have had more since she told me to increase my insulin to 16. I’ve gone back to 14 now. I’ll try calling the diabetic nurses at the hospital.

Yes, it would be best to get advice sooner rather than later as it seems that you need to have something tweaked to get the hypos sorted, and having to wait for next review would leave you too long.

Hope you get it sorted soon. Do let us know, in here, how you get on.