Hi, i may have Diabetes, so many questions?

[Wirrallass]

Hi Ellarose & another warm welcome to our friendly & supportive forum. I acknowledge that you have been given really good advice above - however I can recommend a book which can be bought from Amazon for approx. £10. which will be helpful to you - its called the CARB & CALORIE COUNTER. It has over 1700 food illustrations and also a section relating to when eating out. There is also a pocket size book which is handy to keep in a handbag or pocket if you're going out for a meal. It's a book I refer to and hope you'll find this just as useful in your endeavour to maintain low bgls (blood glucose levels). Please don't ever think you are alone as you have our collective support here on this forum. Take care - good luck and do please stay in touch as to your progress x

 

[pav]

Unfortunately I found some or a lot of doctors don't know much about diabetes or want to know about it or the knock on effects. From memory I was pretty ill before officially diagnosed and was in a bit of a mess. It was only when work intervened and a diabetic there checked my levels and work managed to get an appointment with a doc that I was diagnosed. I had seen the docs a few times about being unwell, even in recent years it's ones own determination to get things sorted out that I was partially listened to.

 

[Ditto]

Hello Ella Rose, welcome to the forum (again) 😉

I didn't get any symptoms, I never ever want to drink. I have to make myself. Weird!

 

[EllaRose71]

Hi everyone.

 

[Pine Marten]

Oh Ella, what a time you've had - thank goodness for a sensible receptionist! I won't repeat the good advice already given, except to say you are always welcome here to chat, rant, ask for (or give 😉) advice, talk about food/anything else you like!

People here are very knowledgeable, and I've learned that GPs don't often know a B from a bull's foot, but that the information given here has been invaluable to me. Keep us updated - all the best to you.

 

[goosey]

Hi All
Ella sorry you have had a horrible experience but may i ask you about this itching? is it just in the nether regions? i have always suffered from a dry scalp, i have shampoo on script but just lately its really doing my head in (excuse the pun) but its just my scalp and its soooooo dry, wonder if this anything to do with the diabetes ? mine is well controlled and my results were brilliant

 

[EllaRose71]

Thankyou Pie Marten and goosey.

 

[Grogg1]

Thrush is indeed an issue with undiagnosed diabetes. I had it under my breasts and treated it with sudacrem which cleared it up and stopped the itching. Since sorting out my diabetes it's gone away.

I also take high dose Vit d (I buy from US as higher dose ) I originally bought it for my hubby and daughter who both have a tendency to outbreaks of eczema and it clears it up. I recommended to a friend for her son as he too had eczema outbreaks and found it cleared it up with him too.

 

[Wirrallass]

You could also try Lanocaine cream externally - its fast acting for that 'itch'.

 

[mikeyB]

A bit of warmth and sugar can help along any infection. Diabetes has no regard for age. Indeed, if an older lady presents with such symptoms the first thing you would check for is diabetes.

 

[goosey]

Thankyou Pie Marten and goosey. After just being here for a few days I already realised what a great community this is, that's why I felt confident to write my last post, embarrassing as it was to admit the itchy side of my symptoms.
Yes, thank heavens for lovely receptionists. I just hope when I was briefly a Dr's receptionist that I made a difference to someone's life like she did with me. Actually thinking about it, I remember that I forced a trainee Dr to go and see a patient at home who had just come out of hospital after having her 2nd Caesarean section, he wanted her to come in with a toddler and a new baby but I made him feel guilty, so he went to see her.
Goosey, yes just the nether regions. I think I read with undiagnosed diabetes that thrush is a factor in some people, it allows yeast to flourish or something.
I booked a hair appointment to cheer myself up for tomorrow, looking forward to being pampered for an hour or so.

Thanks, i was ill about 18 months ago with hiatus hernia and was on losts of medication and had constant thrush is my mouth, but no where else, had to have a medicine type treatment , i was DX diabetic end of march and my results at my 3 month check were brilliant, my BG sits around 5.3 unless i try rice like i did last week😱 but can safey say i wont be again, but the constant itching of my scalp is not only annoying me but annoys hubby too🙄

Thrush is indeed an issue with undiagnosed diabetes. I had it under my breasts and treated it with sudacrem which cleared it up and stopped the itching. Since sorting out my diabetes it's gone away.

I also take high dose Vit d (I buy from US as higher dose ) I originally bought it for my hubby and daughter who both have a tendency to outbreaks of eczema and it clears it up. I recommended to a friend for her son as he too had eczema outbreaks and found it cleared it up with him too.

I also take vit d but prescribed by the doctor as my readings were very low(1600 a day) and folic acid, but only thought you took that if you were pregnant

 

[Maz2]

Welcome to the Forum Ella Rose. A friend of mine was diagnosed with diabetes and had no problems with thrush, in fact, no problems at all so it came as a shock on a health check. I on the other hand many years ago had a few bouts and I was checked for diabetes and was not.

I was diagnosed pre-diabetic last year and sent on a diabetes prevention programme for a year which is due to end in November this year. I am quite shocked at your GPs surgery quite honestly not taking blood tests especially after a pre-diabetes diagnosis. My GP was going to do another test in one year but has not done so yet as the diabetes prevention people are doing the hba1cs at the moment. I do feel that anyone at risk of diabetes should be checked on regularly to make sure they have not developed it. Thankfully, one of our GPs has a special interest in diabetes and I ended up seeing him because the GP I normally saw was on leave. Both of the GPs were concerned though and re-tested me.

I do hope you get things sorted out soon.

 

[EllaRose71]

I feel I will get better care from her.

 

[PaulFromAspull]

Hi everyone.
I have had a quite a tearful day so far! I think everything got to me suddenly as well as frustration at 2 pharmacies.
Amongst the symptoms I have is constant itching, the Dr told me yesterday to get some Thrush cream, so today 2 different pharmacists said I was too OLD for Thrush cream! (apparently i should be under 62, or 64 depending on which pharmacy I saw!)
I said my Dr had told me it was Ok for me, but one said Dr's don't know the age groups.
So I went back to the Dr's surgery and saw the receptionist, I was both embarrassed and so frustrated by my experience that I ended up crying. She was sooooooooo lovely, told me she knew what it was like as she is diabetic herself. She wrote a note to my own Dr. marked as urgent asking for her to write a script after her surgery had ended and said she would ring me when I got home, which she did and told me the prescription was at my local chemist awaiting collection. I feel much happier now.

Hi Ella, and welcome to the forum. I'm a newbie too but after reading your thread, I wanted to give my twopennorth about my experience with thrush and its treatment, and the chemist. Ever since being diagnosed, once every few months I'll get a flare up in the nether regions and had always treated it by applying the cream. Then I found out about the oral medication. I bought it at a small chemist in the centre of town the first time, just asked for it, handed over the money, took the pill, and was clear in about 24 hours. The following time, (the last time thankfully!) it was worse, so, despite the embarrassment (everyone knows everyone here), I went to my local chemist here in my rural little village, asked for the oral pill, and was about to pay when the cashier asked, "Is it for your girlfriend?" to which I truthfully replied, No, saying it was for me. She wouldn't sell it to me! Apparently it's only licensed for sale to women for treatment of thrush, so as a man, I couldn't buy it. Amazed, I went to the town centre chemist and was sold the pill immediately by the same woman who sold it me last time, actually the pharmacist. When I queried the licensing thing, explaining what had happened, she agreed that it's true, "But," she said, "I think that's a stupid rule so if a man comes in I tend to mishear him about his girlfriend." She then smiled and told me she hoped it felt better soon!

So yeah, Ella, that, or something akin to that, may have been why you were refused.

 

[Robin]

Apparently Thrush is less common in post menopausal women, so symptoms may be of something else, so they want you to check with your GP rather than buy it over the counter. I discovered this when I was trying to buy some generally for my holiday first aid/medical bag. However, my local pharmacy will usually sell you some if you say the doctor recommended it, even if you don't have a prescription. If what we read about CCGs expecting people to buy off-prescription medicines themselves is true, this is going to become more and more common, I expect.