Steve
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Post by Steve on Mar 18, 2017 15:38:41 GMT -8
I’m in my fifth year of type-2, and very vision impaired thanks to that! Typing is a challenge when I can't really see the keyboard, typos do slip by. I also have a Charcot foot, and if that is not a familiar thing, I have so far given you two big reasons why I wanted to start this forum. I started out with a first A1c of 11.5, took too long to get the right ideas to bring it down to numbers under 7, and am still going lower. But I spent too much time not really doing things right, a few big diabetes problems got to me! I just recently had to spend some time in the hospital, but that was actually a good thing. I got to a better understanding of things and now I want to help others get it figured out faster than I did. |
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Post by tom on Jul 8, 2018 10:24:23 GMT -8
I’m in my fifth year of type-2, , How did you get into so much trouble? I suppose you were like me and did not have a primary care physician until necessity drove you to it. |
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Post by Steve on Jul 9, 2018 12:29:34 GMT -8
necessity drove you to it. Actually, I drove myself! (joke; imagine drum rimshot.) I was living my life, everything was fine. Never had any ailments or sickness of any sort! Not even a allergy. I spent my weekends off hiking in the mountains, photographing wildflowers and butterflies. I worked full days with my Mac, working on text files and preparing materials for print (for customers; I am not an author.) I had no troiunble reading the screen, I did not wear glasses. I was fine and healthy. I thought! Then I had a birthday and decided to have an eye exam, I had been noticing a glare of the sky while out on my bikes. An optometrist told me I was fine, no glasses needed, but I did have an incipient cataract! Well, he casually then said It could live with it but surgery was available and I might check into that. I went to an ophthalmologist. He was measuring my eye and asked if I had a doctor? He was seeing the effects of sugar in my blood! Yes, that was how I then learned I had diabetes. |
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Post by tom on Jul 9, 2018 15:47:17 GMT -8
He was measuring my eye and asked if I had a doctor? Aha! And you replied, "No, I don't," because if you had had a primary care physician your sugar number would have been known and you would have long been under treatment. This is so typical. For forty years I went to a doctor only when I got sick, just three times -- twice for tick-borne diseases and once for an inflamed Achilles tendon. And then, to my surprise, I had a touch of heart failure and a blood clot in the heart. I thought I had a little bronchitis and put off going to a doctor for nearly a year, but between Christmas and New Year when I was off work it got worst, and I went to a doctor to get it fixed, and he said: "Your heart is beating too fast. You need to go to the emergency room now. There is no charge. Promise me you will go straight to the emergency room." When a doctor says, "There is no charge," you know you are bad off because he doesn't want you to die in his office  Some years ago a cousin told me that she thought she had diabetes -- both of her parent had had it -- and although she lives in a country with socialized medicine, she put off for another year going to a doctor. And sure enough, she had it and had gained another year's worth of damage and is now in an assisted-living place and is quite depressed. So the moral of these incidents is: Get thee a primary care physician. It's insurance that's cheaper than sickness. |
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