I agree with you, if insulin works well for you then you should stay on it. At our health centre they refer any questions about insulin regimes to the local hospital diabetes team as they admit they’re not experts in that area. Maybe it’s worth asking for a referral and get some help in backing you up to stay on insulin? If you’re not having loads of hypos then I would say it looks to be a brilliant result getting 39!
I do struggle to cut down sweet treats in general though. Sometimes I feel I want them more now than when I wasn't diabetic, but it may just be that now I'm more aware of anything I eat. I'm not that happy with that, I don't want to fall in the hole of food guilt.
Likewise - I quit in 1971, one of the few New Year's Resolutions that I've actually kept.
I really hate the NHS sorry for the strong words, but they killed my mum through neglect, she has bed sores down to the bone and in the end sepsis, her original reason for being admitted to hospital was a bowel obstruction, over the course of three weeks she was treated terribly, my dad sued the NHS and won, not that that is anything to do with my issues with them, but I wanted to express why I feel so strongly, I won't go to the GPs unless I have to,I only trust 2 of the doctors, the DN is a complete idiot who know nothing, as you say they label people and its just not right, everyone is different regardless of age, my gran dies at the age of 102 never went to the doctors but had a fall 2 months before she died and broke her hip, again different hospital she was treated like a piece of meat and frankly lost the will to live.The NHS love their labels. In my area they seem to regard you as old when you hit 50. I have lost count of how many times I have been asked name, where are you, what's the day of the week, count backwards, etc. On one occasion they asked me to count backwards in steps of -3 as they could not keep up with me so I switched to hexadecimal and they stormed off. I also hate the recent label of "severe frailty" as do others at my amputee group. My other label is "ex-smoker (long term)" which is quite vague. I should have said "never smoked" when I was asked years ago as I gave up over 49 years ago. As my cardiologist said it is so long ago it is irrelevant! But the NHS live their labels but I label some of their staff usually the underperforming ones!
Thanks ive already told them I won't to take oral meds, she said well its just a suggestion, it was the hospital who put me on insulin, they only made one phone call appointment and then discharged me to the DN at our doctors both the lead DN nursed her assistant on my first suggested Metformin as well as insulin, I refused, I read about the side effects, as I have IBS and and take thyroxine, instead I came here to the forum and learned more how to manage
We had a cartoon pinned up in our tearoom at work of a skeleton sitting at his desk with the caption, Congratulations Mr Smith your regrading has just been approved.
