You should deffo look around of you are not happy with your current doctors. ... I saw a new doctor at my surgery this morning. ... Everyone always avoids the new doctors so he was the only one I could get in to see. ... He was brilliant, really friendly, took his time and had a good chat with me.
normally I feel like they are just rushing you through but this time I didn't
Hi bex and welcome, I am definitely not impressed with my doctors although they are definitely better than the last one, just...they actually told me I had diabetes and underactive thyroid and did nothing for over a year so I went to this doc and immediately got the diagnosis but still nothing, here you are take these tablets and off you go, I knew nothing about Diabetes despite the fact my mother and grandmother both had it, all I remember was my mother testing her urine and taking tablets and telling me her mood swings were down to her diabetes, no mention of rhetinopathy tests or anything else come to that.
My daughter had another doctor in the opposite direction to my own before she moved and she recommended them to me said they were really great and very thorough so fingers crossed going to try and see if they'll accept us xxx
Some doctors just don't seem to understand what patients want/need and they assume we all know about the illnesses they diagnose us with. I guess with GP's it's tough for them as they need to know a bit about everything so there's little scope for them to have specialist knowledge about any one topic but it would be good if they would admit that and say you should research it or refer you to someone who has more detailed knowledge, but from the sounds of things you've recently been subjected to "experts" who have not kept you right either.
The 10 minute 1 ailment rule is also a pain cos usually by the time I've gone to the docs I've got so much wrong with me they should just shoot me and be done. :8855:
Hope the research as helped you sort out what you need to be doing and I'm intrigued to know what the major changes are.
Speak to you again soon.
Hello hun, I really believe a lot of these GP's just don't have the interest in the patients anymore it's like a conveyor belt ...not being funny but I am sure it's all about the money especially at my practice, the only thing my doctor ever told me was that metformin were the best tablets for me because of my weight problem even when I told him I stopped taking them after persevering for 3 years when they made me really nauseous and miserable, the second I stopped them I felt a lot better because by then I was following a sensible diet and exercising.
The biggest changes I have made are to my diet and exercise, reading the 2 books I have on Diabetes for Dummies, the other one is a cook book but also gives a lot more info on it, I am beginning to understand more exactly what Diabetes is all about, I have read over half the first book and every so often I say Oh that explains that, things that I put down to other ailments, like these bouts of thrush I keep getting ...I now understand why and can make a change....I knew that having hot feet and hands was a common sign of Diabetes and you're blood sugar levels but as daft as it sounds didn't connect that the hotter they are the higher your blood sugars.
There also tests that my doctor should be performing every year and while this book is American written it does explain that it also applies all over the world and the tests that he mentioned, as far as I know, I have never in 9 years had ....I'm never asked if I check my blood sugars and that's imperative that I do so I can work out how tings affect me...and so on I could be here all night going on about what they don't do, so I guess it's time to move on to others that hopefully will listen to me.
Anyway lovely ladies I am ogff to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzz's, night, night :nightf: and sweet dreams, catch you real soon xxx:hug99:xxx
