Post by Steve on Dec 6, 2017 10:33:41 GMT -8
So here is a little forum with so very few members who are clearly too busy to even pop in once a week? Diabetics taking various (expensive) drugs to manage the probable serious effects, and apparently feel that meds are all it takes. The few who joined in October have never come back to learn just what their meds are doing and how they work. I have found it interesting to discover the several ways these meds do their tricks to handle the glucose that wants to kill us! Too dramatic? Not when you keep hearing about the increased chances of heart attack or strokes we diabetics are likely to suffer. But I guess for most who are as yet only mildly affected, taking pills and shots is sufficient management! They think.
Me? I'm sort of imobilized. No more working for a living, no more graphic jobs. My days are spent with Dr. Google, learning about my disease. Not exactly the most fun but it is interesting. Getting familiar with the way things work, what things affect how the body works, and how things go haywire because glucose is overwhelming things in the engine room. Short circuiting nerves, destroying blood delivery systems, quietly taking away the abilities we will miss when they're gone. And to learn, only too late, what we did to screw things up! I'm lucky to have finally managed to hit a point that has me in a stall; not getting better so much as not getting worse. Sort of stabilzed, and just at the point where my abilities are not so reduced that I cannot live my life pretty well all on my own.
I recently asked an R.N. why I was still needing some of my standard meds? She agreed that I might be okay to cut back or quit some, but she suggested I see an endocrinologist for a more informed opinion. I called my PCP to ask for the referral that was needed to get an appoinment. Today I got a call with unexpected info: my PCP says I am doing so well that a visit to the endo wouldn't be useful. Oh, I could still have a referral, but why bother?
I was told (again) that most diabetics do not take care of themselves! They take their meds, keep on living... until...!
So how ironic that I got hit hard and fast, but now I'm doing so well I don't need to waste time with finding out how to do better? I have to laugh.
Me? I'm sort of imobilized. No more working for a living, no more graphic jobs. My days are spent with Dr. Google, learning about my disease. Not exactly the most fun but it is interesting. Getting familiar with the way things work, what things affect how the body works, and how things go haywire because glucose is overwhelming things in the engine room. Short circuiting nerves, destroying blood delivery systems, quietly taking away the abilities we will miss when they're gone. And to learn, only too late, what we did to screw things up! I'm lucky to have finally managed to hit a point that has me in a stall; not getting better so much as not getting worse. Sort of stabilzed, and just at the point where my abilities are not so reduced that I cannot live my life pretty well all on my own.
I recently asked an R.N. why I was still needing some of my standard meds? She agreed that I might be okay to cut back or quit some, but she suggested I see an endocrinologist for a more informed opinion. I called my PCP to ask for the referral that was needed to get an appoinment. Today I got a call with unexpected info: my PCP says I am doing so well that a visit to the endo wouldn't be useful. Oh, I could still have a referral, but why bother?
I was told (again) that most diabetics do not take care of themselves! They take their meds, keep on living... until...!
So how ironic that I got hit hard and fast, but now I'm doing so well I don't need to waste time with finding out how to do better? I have to laugh.
