When the big day comes i'm gonna ask for Eileen or Dr Fox at the Diabetes Centre and demarnd to be put on the DAFNE course!
🙂 I aso don't trust be doctor, he seems to have trouble reading his BNF... I'm a tad worried at the moment coz my bloods arn't as low as i'd like but my HBa1c came back at 6.3..i'm baffled but that's another story...Anyway, if i need insulin then i need insulin, i'll take whatever it takes to get by blood sugar in line.
People don't take their drugs very well, it's a fact (and yes, i'm as bad as the batty geriatrics we all assume are the culprits...i keep forgetting my ramipril, i can just about handle the Metformin, but taking more than one drug is asking too much..
). People forget, people get frightened of the side effects and people fail to recognise the need to take them (that'd be me and the simvastatin then...) Some people just get the wrong end of the stick. A tip for side-effect phobia, there's always a list and the ones at the top are the ones you are most likely to get, as you get further down the list they get more and more rare. Some information leaflets even give a figure of how many people in 100 or 1000 are likely to suffer from what side effect, and there's some movement to write more of them like this. Health care proffesionals from doctors, nurses, pharmacists and erm..even pharmacy technicians are supposed to be trained to make it as easy and as understandable for people as possible. We're working on it folks!
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Rachel