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No self isolating for diabetics !

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Oh and at my GP practice there is a Dr with type 3 diabetes and 3 type 1 nurses. My DSN is also type 1 and all are still working.
 
Pumper_Sue said:
If you have no complications and are a well controlled diabetic then you have the same chance as everyone else of catching the vrus.

We are not in a high risk group. If your diabetes is badly controlled then perhaps have a look at how you are managing your diabetes so you will have a better chance of not getting any bad symptoms from the virus.
I was invited to go for day surgery today, yet as I have type 1 diabetes, MS, Addison's disease and an underactive thyroid plus coeliac disease I am not considered a high risk. So I doubt you will stand a chance in hell of saying you are high risk.
Perhaps ask to stack shelves instead if that makes you feel safer.
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Come and work with me then.stacking shelves
 
Lee2030 said:
Come and work with me then.stacking shelves
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If I had the ability to do so I would but as I have MS I doubt I would be much help 🙂
 
Peejay8T8 said:
I'm a postal worker, and type 1. I've been off since Monday but work told me I need to show them a letter from the NHS to continue getting paid. I've not received a letter yet and I'm worried I won't be deemed high enough risk. We're on the gov.uk list of people who should social distance for 12 weeks though. What gives?!
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Everyone should social distance. You won’t get a letter because diabetes isn’t a high risk.
 
mikeyB said:
High risk doesn’t include diabetes. Get it through your head. Just because you get coronavirus doesn’t mean you’ll die.

If diabetes were a high risk 4.5 million folk would have to self isolate.
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So you have not heard. It says diabetics are high risk. More severe cases of high risk catagory people who have cancer etc. Thats totally understandable. Sounds like most diebetes sufferers on here are all at home that are replying the way they are. It is that if you get coronavirus you are high risk in complications. That is what they said. You can all come to work with me and work with customers coughing talking laughing much closer than 2 metres from me. I am in my late 50s i am managing my diabetes but we cannot manage the virus well . As said. You can all come to work with me. Or are you all staying at home . Not everyone ids diabetic who work in workplaces . I am the only one in mine. So shops will not suddenly close !
 
Lee2030 said:
High risk includes diabetics.
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No it doesn’t! Not according to the official government advice or to your doctor if you haven’t received a letter about it.
 
Sally71 said:
No it doesn’t! Not according to the official government advice or to your doctor if you haven’t received a letter about it.
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Yes it does. High risk is diabetics asthma. Higher than that are more severe high risk such as cancer and other diseases.
Sally71 said:
Tell me where and I'll be there. I work in a school and I’m not crying off sick.
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inews.co.uk

Are people with diabetes more at risk of coronavirus?

'If you routinely check your blood sugar at home, you'll probably need to do it more often'
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Lee2030 said:
Lee2030 said:
Yes it does. High risk is diabetics asthma. Higher than that are more severe high risk such as cancer and other diseases. Crying off sick.
inews.co.uk

Are people with diabetes more at risk of coronavirus?

'If you routinely check your blood sugar at home, you'll probably need to do it more often'
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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Yes it does. High risk is diabetics asthma and other HIGH RISK conditions. Higher than that are more severe high risk such as cancer and other diseases.
inews.co.uk

Are people with diabetes more at risk of coronavirus?

'If you routinely check your blood sugar at home, you'll probably need to do it more often'
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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I understand your concerns. I work in Children's social care and you can't do personal care from 2 meters away. I'm fortunate to have 2 weeks off as I already had annual leave booked. Most of my colleagues think I shouldn't be at work, but I'm the only staff member with D. Luckily I work nights so that helps to minimise contact.
 
That's not the official government advice, that's only some journalist's interpretation and the advice given is basically what everyone is being told to do now whether they have medical conditions or not. You go and take it up with your employer and I’ll follow my daughter’s doctor's advice thank you.
 
Actually there is so much conflicting information out there I guess I can’t blame people for being confused, so I apologise if some of my posts on here have sounded a bit harsh. I have allowed myself to get a bit carried away here and I really should learn to pick my arguments better. I shall now come off this thread. If I have offended anyone I am truly sorry.
 
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Lee2030 said:
So you have not heard. It says diabetics are high risk. More severe cases of high risk catagory people who have cancer etc. Thats totally understandable. Sounds like most diebetes sufferers on here are all at home that are replying the way they are. It is that if you get coronavirus you are high risk in complications. That is what they said. You can all come to work with me and work with customers coughing talking laughing much closer than 2 metres from me. I am in my late 50s i am managing my diabetes but we cannot manage the virus well . As said. You can all come to work with me. Or are you all staying at home . Not everyone ids diabetic who work in workplaces . I am the only one in mine. So shops will not suddenly close !
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Sally71 said:
That's not the official government advice, that's only some journalist's interpretation and the advice given is basically what everyone is being told to do now whether they have medical conditions or not. You go and take it up with your employer and I’ll follow my daughter’s doctor's advice thank you.
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No its not. Its via the world health organisation. . Lets end this now. We are meant to be supporting each other. Thats all now. Thank you for your views.
 
Lee2030 said:
Please could Diabetes .org.uk request for the Government to include diabetics to be included in the self isolate group for up to 12 weeks and extend the period of time after that period depending on the on going epidemic. I work in retail as in a supermarket. I cannot social distance at 2 metres as I work at a till far closer to the customer. I am type 2 diabetes . We are in a high risk catagory and would be severely ill due to diabetes related complications as said on this website's news section of information, so why are we only to self distance like everyone else who do not have underlying health issues if we are high risk? I personally have had to negotiate with my bosses to take off holiday due from the following year to keep away from close contact of customers in my job which i cannot stay 2 metres away at a till. Even wearing gloves this is not going to completley protect me. Customers talking laughing coughing in my face. I am in close contact with staff in a tight working area. I am so angry that if we are high risk and have to work in an environment whereby it would be in effect high risk of catching it that diabetes has not been hightened up into the self isolate group and instead just social distance when diabetic retail workers are risking grave repercussions of contracting coronavirus. Can a petition not be set up to put to the government about this .? To reiterate. If Workplace social distancing less than 2 metre contact in retail ie supermarkets small convenience stores not possible then diabetics are as said high risk and vuleranable and should therefore be told to self isolate.It is incomprehensible to see that we are not in the self isolate group and if you work in retail then you have to social distance 2 metres away but that is impossible. So if we as the public have to socially distance and diabetics have to socially distance but cannot due to working situation but still have to work then there must be that those rules are not being followed through by our employers as much as for the diabetic population not being able to follow the set guidelines as we have been told to social distance when we cannot yet are high risk. A petition to the government needs to be put to them concerning this. Please can this site support us to be Self isolating if having to continue working in retail sector in close contact of customers via within the 2 metre distance regulation which is presently the rule. https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/coronavirus
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Have you read the list. Only if you are severely vunerable . If you qualified you wouldn't be able to work.
 
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