Apparently I'm not type 1!!

[Pigeon]

I got loads of compliments after I was diagnosed and started taking insulin, i.e. was feeling better and regaining weight. But then they'd say "Yeah, you looked terrible when I saw you two months ago..."

 

[trophywench]

Sorry to drag this ancient thread up from the depths - I was just doing a forum search for c-peptide (could have sworn somebody had done a trial giving diabetics c-peptide - fairly recently - and that's what I was trying to find - when I saw the title of this thread I simply had to open it and have a read - I went WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT? LOL)

I find this extremely scarey - they walk amongst us, hold positions that affect our lives and make decisions about us based on their own knowledge.


Could I please have a quick synopsis of 'What happened next?' Paul ?

 

[slipper]

I got to page 3 before I glanced at the date😱

 

[Northerner]

I got to page 3 before I glanced at the date😱

My poem on the subject:


Mr Jenkins? Your appointment has been rearranged,
And since you?ll have turned 40, your diagnosis has changed!
We know that we told you that you were Type 1,
But now you?ve got older, I?m afraid that is wrong!

Type 1 diabetes affects only the young,
And you?ve got a foot on the middle-aged rung ?
On the ladder of life, I?m afraid you?re too high,
And your fountain of youth is decidedly dry!

So, because you?re too old, you?ve been reclassified,
There?s no point in complaining, though many have tried!
You?ll be very pleased to learn that you?re a Type 2,
That?ll be cheaper for us, if not better for you!

You won?t need to test, so you won?t need those strips,
And you?ll no longer suffer those low sugar dips!
We?re withdrawing your insulin, you?ll be diet-controlled?
What?s that? Don?t blame me sir ? it?s because you?re too old!

(c) Northerner 2010

 

[Robster65]

This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder why they want to develop higher tech solutions when some of the people 'looking after us' haven't moved on from leeches and humours.🙄

Frogmarch them into a classroom and force them to learn something new or take away their first aid badges!!

Thank you TW for ressurecting this thread. I feel better for that.🙂

Rob

 

[slipper]

This diet business amazes me in that type 2's should eat plenty of starchy carbs, despite the mass of evidence, this from very intelligent peeps, who obviously slavishy followold doctrine, why?

I'm 68 now, and I am trying to get all my problems sorted before I am "too old" for treatment, not sure what that age is though, but must be near it.

At least with diabetes, there is a reaction and some advice from professionals, beit right or wrong, sad to say if I mention my ME, the jaw drops and their eyes glaze over, they just dont have a clue.

 

[ypauly]

Sorry to drag this ancient thread up from the depths - I was just doing a forum search for c-peptide (could have sworn somebody had done a trial giving diabetics c-peptide - fairly recently - and that's what I was trying to find - when I saw the title of this thread I simply had to open it and have a read - I went WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT? LOL)

I find this extremely scarey - they walk amongst us, hold positions that affect our lives and make decisions about us based on their own knowledge.


Could I please have a quick synopsis of 'What happened next?' Paul ?

Well based on the nurses advice the GP initially refused my insulin, only after an argument with the wife was it prescribed, we then had difficulty getting the other items on my prescription as it was the stuff they usually prescribe(lancets e.t.c).

It did all go well eventually but it took the consultant to sort it. Soon after I moved house again and went back to my old GP's and we all lived happily ever after.

Worrying as when NHS changes take place this GP will have more control but will listen to a practice nurse that knows very little about diabetes.


To be fair to them though, when I was advised to try the pump the new consultant noticed that on my notes I had never been officially diagnosed yet treated as a type 1 since being hospitalised in october 2009. An official diagnosis was required for pump therapy and both consultants (co-incidently at the same clinic at the same time) agreed type 1 it is and appologised for any confusion.

I can only assume that somewhere along the lines my notes had been cocked up as you have to be type1 for DAFNE which I had also done.



Gettin used to the pump now, even got the software to work.

 

[trophywench]

Phew!

Actually now you say, I actually remember the bit about your wife arguing onwards, LOL It was just that I didn't remember this thread.

Although most people would start another thread with the new, news - as you evidently did - it was a tad scarey finding this one unconcluded !

 

[lizabetic]

Maybe I should try for a pump and they might get round to correctly diagnosing me 🙂

I also had to argue with a practicing (?) doctor once that there WAS such a thing as slow-onset type 1 diabetes. Daft fool "]

 

[Northerner]

Maybe I should try for a pump and they might get round to correctly diagnosing me 🙂

I also had to argue with a practicing (?) doctor once that there WAS such a thing as slow-onset type 1 diabetes. Daft fool "]

I'm sure it wouldn't take much research from 'approved' medical sources to confirm that you weren't making it up! 🙄 Having said that, I'm sure they do get told a load of baloney by patients, but the skill is in being able to realise when the patient might actually know what they are talking about. I'm currently reading an excellent book on my Kindle called Sick Notes: True Stories from the GP's Surgery - very funny, but also brings it home to you what it must be like being a GP and what they often have to put up with. I'll write a proper review of it when I've finished it, but well worth the ?1.75 I paid (paperback is ?6.50!).