6 month check up

[vince13]

Now I'm not going tell you too much about what my review was like except to say it was with a nurse I had not met before at the surgery who started off by going through the meds I'm on and was absolutely positive that I was a stupid old woman for not knowing I was on Thyroxine. I am not and never have been I told her and asked if she had the right patient details.

She then told me my TSH levels were "extremely elevated and had been last time too" (actually it was 6.4 last time and she didn't tell me what it was this time - but I found out from the receptionist later and it was 7.1 and my consultant said I'm not to go on thyroxine until I readh 10 so sucks poo to her !)....and she insisted on giving me a prescription fo thyroxine anyway.

She made a point of telling me that she didn't take any notice of my book with my record bs levels in as "people fake them". She took my blood pressure and weight and I felt she was cheesed off that she couldn't tell me off for either of them being bad because they were "perfect".

She didn't do any more checks at all but kept telling me I should take my metformin with food or I would get an upset stomach - despite my telling her I always did take them with food.

By this time I'm p.....d off and wanted to get out of the room. I am seeing my Dr next week to have a word !!! 😡

 

[imtrying]

grrrr why do they do this???

there are so many lovely professionals, why are there ones like this?? 😡 I have to say that has tended to be my experience of GP practice nurses, sadly.

Hope your appointment next week goes lots better!!

 

[vince13]

I have always found the diabetic nurses at my surgery (and at the hospital too) to be really positive and encouraging but this one........yuk.

My dr is the diabetic expert in the practice and you can really talk to him so I'm going to have a word about how patronised she made me feel and ask why I've been put on the thyroxine and why no-one had told me to collect a prescription for it - if I don't get a proper response I'll email my endo consultant at the hospital (who I'm not seeing until October and I'm not leaving it that long !) to see if he thinks 7.1 is near enough to 10 to be put on thyroxine.

Sorry for the rant but she really made me feel cross and I came home and ate a Yorkie bar ("other choccy bars are available").

Hope everyone elses week has been a little better than this !

 

[Northerner]

I have always found the diabetic nurses at my surgery (and at the hospital too) to be really positive and encouraging but this one........yuk.

My dr is the diabetic expert in the practice and you can really talk to him so I'm going to have a word about how patronised she made me feel and ask why I've been put on the thyroxine and why no-one had told me to collect a prescription for it - if I don't get a proper response I'll email my endo consultant at the hospital (who I'm not seeing until October and I'm not leaving it that long !) to see if he thinks 7.1 is near enough to 10 to be put on thyroxine.

Sorry for the rant but she really made me feel cross and I came home and ate a Yorkie bar ("other choccy bars are available").

Hope everyone elses week has been a little better than this !

Faith, you really must tell your GP everything you have just told us because this is absolutely appalling behaviour! You already know this of course as you have encountered some very good HCPs. It's ridiculous that you should have such a negative encounter, and awful that your genuine concerns about your BG levels were waved away - she would have got such a tongue-lashing from me that she would (metaphorically!) have been picking up her teeth with a broken arm for making such an unwarranted and stupid accusation. 😡 There's every chance she'll become the subject of a poem with that kind of behaviour!

I hope you can get some reassurance and common sense from your GP or endo, and that she is taught never to treat a patient in such a manner again!

 

[Ellie Jones]

Faith at least we've got rather sensible consultant who actually listens to us!

Theoretically she may have overstepped her position, if you under the hospital consultant she has the authority to over-ride or change aspects of your medication regime without prior permission of the consultant...

I have similar problems with my thyroid, it's termed as subclinical, because yep they are out but to an extent if you weren't diabetic then they wouldn't treat unless you were actually displaying physical symptoms... After trying thyroxine for a little bit and didn't get on with it, P agreed that we hold off until it was essential to start treating...

I'm so glad that when I see my surgery DSN, it's a good natter how I'm getting on with my pump, any concerns with my bloods or changes in levels, and when I'm booked into see P again...

 

[vince13]

Yep, we are so lucky aren't we ? (EJ and I share the same chap - I think she's rather sweet on him !!).

I shall take the line of "more in sorrow than anger" to my Dr and see how we go. I wish I was seeing him earlier than next Thursday because some of my anger will have disappeared by then I expect.

In fact, she even told Ian to tell me not to do my finger prick thing on the index fingers and thumbs - to which he replied "she knows that already as Debbie at the hospital told her that when she was diagnosed".

It has rather shaken how I feel about my Dr's Diabetic Clinic because the other nurses I've seen have been so good - in future I shall check just before I go and see who is on the rota that day - I can be sneaky if needs be and cancel if it's her again and rebook directly with one of the nurses I do get on with.

Thanks for listening - worse things happen to other people I know. 🙂