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KenM
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:05 am Post subject: Sick and tired of my Doc trying to tell me how to live.

A little over 2 years ago I came down with type 2 dietbetes. All of a sudden my doc and my nurse practionteen start preaching to me and tell me that everything I enjoyed to eat I can't eat anymore. That I have to take a needle every day. This makes me feel like a junkie. I don't like drugs but it makes me feel like a druggie. They tell me all this stuff i should eat that coasts 3x as much as the other stuff I was eating, plus I don't like it, tastes like crap. I try to get my sugar down but nothing I do is good enough for them. They need to get off my back and cure me insted of tell me how to live my life. I don't tell them how to live there life. I want to go to them when I have a problem and not constily be asked how my sugar is. They tell me I need to be more active but I'm on my feet all day at work. Thats not good enough. I had working out. Only time I did it I followed the teachers directions right, but was so sore next day I could not walk. Why would anyone want to keep putting themselves through that? I told them all of these issues but they seemed to laugh it off. They do know about my AS. They don't want to cure me they want to keep me on drugs and use me as an experment to see if they can control me with insulin. I would rather live a shorter life and be happy then eat crap and be miserible for a longer period of time.

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

Hi, Ken M. Your doctor and nurse aren't using you as an experiment. The only way to control your Type 2 diabetes is with diet, insulin and exercise. If you don't control it, you could get VERY sick- you could go blind, suffer kidney failure or end up having a limb amputated. That's why your doctor and nurse keep nagging you about it- it's serious. I know- Type 2 diabetes killed my grandmother. There is no cure for Type 2 diabetes, but if you can get your weight down, exercise regularly and watch your diet, you might be able to take insulin tablets instead of having injections. Take your doctor's advice seriously, ok? DON'T mess around with diabetes. Jenny

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:48 am Post subject:

You shouldn't have to spend 3X what you normally do, or deprive yourself, to eat healthier. Maybe they are giving you bad advice. A few simple changes here and there can vastly improve any person's diet. Try to do things in moderation, if you want to have something they told you to avoid, balance it out by eating something nutritious. They probably think they are doing what's best for you as annoying as it may seem to you. I was very sick a few years back, and the book "Eat to Live" changed my life. I recommend it to you. But the bottom line is that your life is your own, and people shouldn't impinge themselves upon it.

KenM
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:10 am Post subject:

Well I'm not going to totally change my life because of this. I told my doc that but he keeps forcing his belives on me. I told him I am not going to change. I hate exercise so I'm not going to do it. All the healther foods they tell me to buy cost about 3x as much as the stuff I like. They are the medical professinels. They should cure me, but they want to keep me on a needle for the rest of my life. I bet the drug companies have a cure but they are keeping it from people so they keep people buying the insulin. I'd rather be dead then be a slave to a needle all the time.

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:28 am Post subject:

KenM wrote:

They are the medical professinels. They should cure me, but they want to keep me on a needle for the rest of my life. I bet the drug companies have a cure but they are keeping it from people so they keep people buying the insulin.

That's very unlikely, if the drug companies wanted to supress a cure why spend money researching it in the first place? They'd just not research it so they probably have no cure.

Anyway even if the drug companies are suppressing a cure your doc isn't in on the scam, the only thing he can give you is insulin and diet advice, he has no cure.

KenM wrote:

I'd rather be dead then be a slave to a needle all the time.

Ask about insulin tablets and if they require diet and exercise do it, otherwise it really might be a choice between needles or death.

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:39 am Post subject:

KenM wrote:

I'd rather be dead then be a slave to a needle all the time.

Sounds like you will be, then.

KenM
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:40 am Post subject:

When I first came down with diebetes, they tryed to put me on the pills. But my sugars was too high, so they put me on the neddles. Now every time I go to the doc all they look at is my numbers. They don't ask me how I feel about all this stuff or that I tell them I feel like a druggie taking a needle every day. Does not matter to them. Only thing they see is the numbers. I'm not going to change my diet or exercise. I just take my needle like a good little junkie and everything is ok. Death is looking better and better. I don't want to live like this.

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject:

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: Sick and tired of my Doc...

Hi Ken, It is VERY hard, I have been a type 1 since 1972 at the age of 10. I am on an insulin pump. If you ever feel the docs only see your diabetes and not the rest of you, find a doctor who is more open minded. In my experiences, foreign doctors have been better. My last doctor was from Romania and she didn't blame every symptom I reported to her as coming from my "uncontrolled diabetes"! I also had a great doctor who was from Iran. They tend to think outside the box.

KenM
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:48 am Post subject:

Thanks. Thats the other thing. Everytime I come to them with an issue I have, they automatacly blame it on my diebetes. Its like they just see me as someone with that and nothing else and as long as i take my needle, they are happy. But I'm miserable. I'm on my second nurse practioneer. The first one was freash out of school and just looked at the numbers. She also said things like "Ken, you HAVE to do these things".Making demands on me. I told her about how I felt like a druggie because I was taking a needle. I have some relitives that struggle with addiction and I felt like an addict. She laughed it off. I was seeing a consilier at the time and told him what was going on. He offered to talk to her and I let him. After they talked, he told me she now understood. So the next time I saw the nurse, she said "Look Ken, I talked to your consilier, but that does not matter, this is how its going to be" So I walked out. When I am ready to end it I will stop going to the doc.

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:21 am Post subject:

I hope by "ending it" you don't mean your life! It does take time to adjust mentally to being "diabetic". I fall off my treatment plan a lot, then start over. It helps to make changes slowly, one thing at a time, like take a 10 minute walk when your bloodsugar is too high. Sometimes this can work instead of giving yourself extra insulin. Also, if its the needle that is hard to accept, there are needle-less injectors and the pump. The pump has a catheter that you insert into your belly via a needle, but you do that once every 4 days. Please give yourself some time to adjust. I have been diabetic for 37 years and the only "complications" I have are my right eye had laser treatment to stop leaky vessels and I have one foot that needs an orthotic that is worn in the shoe to prevent pressure sores. I know that it is much harder to accept this as an adult. I had a hard time too, but at only 10 years of age, I grew to accept it....over time.

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:59 am Post subject:

KenM, would it help if someone else came to do the injecting,so are not having to go through the actions of what drug addicts do? Am ask that because have got an aunt with insulin dependant diabetes as well,and is thought to be somewhere on the spectrum,she refuses to do her insulin herself,so the nurse comes out and does it for her. Also,what sort of injection is it that are using? is it a syringe type,or a thick pen style? if it's not the pen type,would that help stop the thoughts of being a drug addict? it looks nothing like what drug addicts use,the guy am lived with had two colour coded ones depending on time of day it was for,one pure white the other navy and a bit of yellow,they just looked like fat pens. He was encouraged into a diet by the diabetic centre,because certain foods can send him [and others] into a hypo/or the opposite [too high],he gets low fat sausages,different meat from the butchers,potatoes,vegetables,light yoghurts etc,would a basic diet not appeal to self? _________________ [LFAutie] ..::moderate & severe autism support:.. .:The residential autist:. -:updated-May:-

KenM
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject:

To me it does not matter if its me or someone else doing the injections. I still feel like a drug addict. Still putting something forgien in my body to make myself feel better and thats wrong. I use a pen injector. But I still feel like a junkie. Its still a needle. Does not matter that it does not look like a needle to me. Also, I feel my Doc has lied to me. He said once I got my sugars down I would have more energy and want to do more active things. I gotten my sugars down but I don't feel any change that way. I've always had a low enegry feelings and never wanted to do more then I had to. So I was lied to by my Doc. I'm all my feet all day at work. Last thing I want to do when not working is be on my feet. Thats my time I am going to do what I want. Not like I have anyone or anything to live for anyway.