Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Recently, while traveling to Arizona to give a diabetes workshop, I was struck again by the lack of knowledge and urgency many physicians have regarding diabetes.
Seated at the airport, my husband was talking to a woman about health, whose clearly-overweight mother was sitting next to her. The woman said her mother was on a lot of pills and her doctor wants to put her on another one. My husband asked, ?Does she have diabetes??
?No,? said the woman. My usually-quiet husband persisted, ?Has your mother had a recent blood sugar test??
?Yes, her blood sugar was 187,? said the woman. ?But the doctor said that?s nothing to be concerned about.?
Depending on the test, a blood sugar of 187 mg/dL (10.3 mmol/L) can very much be something to be concerned about. It may mean you may either have diabetes or pre-diabetes. ?What did her doctor advise her to do?? I asked, expecting at least lifestyle guidance if not medication.
?Nothing,? said the woman staring at us, confused.
About one-fourth of the nearly 26 million people in the U.S. with diabetes don?t know they have it. That?s a little more than 7 million people walking around with undiagnosed, untreated diabetes.
http://asweetlife.org/riva/blogs/he...ctor-may-not-help-if-you-have-diabetes/31839/
Seated at the airport, my husband was talking to a woman about health, whose clearly-overweight mother was sitting next to her. The woman said her mother was on a lot of pills and her doctor wants to put her on another one. My husband asked, ?Does she have diabetes??
?No,? said the woman. My usually-quiet husband persisted, ?Has your mother had a recent blood sugar test??
?Yes, her blood sugar was 187,? said the woman. ?But the doctor said that?s nothing to be concerned about.?
Depending on the test, a blood sugar of 187 mg/dL (10.3 mmol/L) can very much be something to be concerned about. It may mean you may either have diabetes or pre-diabetes. ?What did her doctor advise her to do?? I asked, expecting at least lifestyle guidance if not medication.
?Nothing,? said the woman staring at us, confused.
About one-fourth of the nearly 26 million people in the U.S. with diabetes don?t know they have it. That?s a little more than 7 million people walking around with undiagnosed, untreated diabetes.
http://asweetlife.org/riva/blogs/he...ctor-may-not-help-if-you-have-diabetes/31839/