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Whats the worst advice you have been given?

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I was told not to test my BG by the nurse at the docs surgery...

Then I get asked how do I keep my HbA1c below 6%? Reply: I test and if my BG is too high I walk (some of) it off.
 
After I had been to my docs for a blood test on the Friday, the next day I had a doctor chasing me to go to A&E as my blood sugers were 30+ with keytones...

The A&E doc didnt get the procedure right and didnt admit me that weekend his advice to me was don't eat chocolate for the rest of the weekend! lol

Subsequent visit to my own GP on the Monday meant a speedy trip back to hospital and admittance....(However that A&E doc did ring me to check I was ok......think this may have been due to the consultant prob telling him off eek)
 
VanessaK said:
After I had been to my docs for a blood test on the Friday, the next day I had a doctor chasing me to go to A&E as my blood sugers were 30+ with keytones...

The A&E doc didnt get the procedure right and didnt admit me that weekend his advice to me was don't eat chocolate for the rest of the weekend! lol

Subsequent visit to my own GP on the Monday meant a speedy trip back to hospital and admittance....(However that A&E doc did ring me to check I was ok......think this may have been due to the consultant prob telling him off eek)
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Ah, so he thought it was just chocolate you should avoid then? But you were fine to eat as many jelly babies as you liked? 😱 🙄
 
Ahh what is funny is that after i got home from A&E and his "advice" my housemate had bout me a chocolate eclair to cheer me up ! lol
 
I was told not to test my bgs as it does no good and "people like you get obsessed". Eh?
 
AlisonM said:
I was told not to test my bgs as it does no good and "people like you get obsessed". Eh?
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Yep apparently I'm obsessed and its no good for me. I should go with the age old advice as a type 1. 1 test per day. Day 1 before breakfast. Day 2, after breakfast, day 3 Before lunch etc etc etc. Ive been told this by numerous doctors. I think they assume I eat the same thing every single day. Hence they then try and limit my test strips.

A little mathematical scribble and A note from the DVLA and their driving advice (Plus a good session on point making about how much I drive) soon lifting that limit. But I still always get the "Your poor fingers".
 
Just before I post this remember that in August all the junior docs start on the wards for the first time.

I was diagnosed in August and had just left intensive care and was chatting to the junior doc abut what may have caused my diagnosis of type one at a positively ancient 43. He suggested I get tested for HIV?!

When I asked my gp how to go about it she laughed her head off
 
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I was told that i had to feed the insulin, and have something to eat between meals:confused:
 
megga said:
I was told that i had to feed the insulin, and have something to eat between meals:confused:
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Well that is good advice if you are on mixed insulin or use NPH/Insultared or Isophane as one of your insulin's 🙂
 
toby said:
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:D:D:D

I'm not sure on any bad advice diabetes wise, I think most of mine has been fine tbh - plenty time still to hear c**p advice though I guess!
 
This one isn't related to diabetes, and comes second-hand...

My ex-husband has peripheral vascular disease. At the hospital he was advised to give up smoking and take up drinking. He's a recovering alcoholic!
 
LeeLee said:
This one isn't related to diabetes, and comes second-hand...

My ex-husband has peripheral vascular disease. At the hospital he was advised to give up smoking and take up drinking. He's a recovering alcoholic!
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Oh my! 😱
 
I was told yesterday that as I have only just been diagnosed(6 months ago) that Im not in the group of diabetics that would hypo? !? My sugars arent great but i have had the odd 4.6. I didnt respond to it and just was amused when I walked out. Apparantly you have to have diabetes for serveralyears for this to happen!🙄
 
astbury1 said:
I was told yesterday that as I have only just been diagnosed(6 months ago) that Im not in the group of diabetics that would hypo? !? My sugars arent great but i have had the odd 4.6. I didnt respond to it and just was amused when I walked out. Apparantly you have to have diabetes for serveralyears for this to happen!🙄
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What a crock! 😱 I had a hypo in hospital a couple of days after diagnosis, and also experienced my first 'at home' hypo about a week or two afterwards. I had quite a lot of hypos in my first 6 months as my insulin requirements dropped quite rapidly as I recovered my health and I couldn't quite keep pace with the reductions 🙂
 
When I was 11 I had a vomiting bug, and the emergency GP told my parents to stop giving me my insulin as "she's not eating anything, so insulin will just make her go hypo"

Since this was back in the days when testing wasn't as common and my parents still believed that doctors knew best, my parents followed his instructions and I ended up in hospital for a week with DKA...
 
Ditto Northie, although mine were all diagnosed as phantom ones bearing in mind I was 'new' and it took 2 days to get a blood test result and the instant wee ones at those times didn't tell us anything helpful, well they wouldn't have, would they? LOL
 
trophywench said:
Ditto Northie, although mine were all diagnosed as phantom ones bearing in mind I was 'new' and it took 2 days to get a blood test result and the instant wee ones at those times didn't tell us anything helpful, well they wouldn't have, would they? LOL
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LOL, I can just imagine it! "You don't have any sugar in your urine, that's great!" 😛
 
randomange said:
When I was 11 I had a vomiting bug, and the emergency GP told my parents to stop giving me my insulin as "she's not eating anything, so insulin will just make her go hypo"

Since this was back in the days when testing wasn't as common and my parents still believed that doctors knew best, my parents followed his instructions and I ended up in hospital for a week with DKA...
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Scary! 😱
 
Worse bit of advice is definitely join this forum, all these people hounding me to attend meets gets v annoying ::D:D🙂
 
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