[DazedSheep]

Originally Posted by ladytaz

I'm sorry but I just don't understand these people telling their patients not to test, for ANY type of diabetes!! Um HELLO McFly ... how in the **** else are we all supposed to learn...

Firstly: if the medicine they've prescribed us (oral or insulin) is doing it's job or not, and therefore may or may not need adjusting.

Secondly: how different foods affect our BG numbers, so we can learn what we can and cannot eat. Every one of us is different, and a diabetic "diet" or "way of eating" or whatever you want to call it, is NOT an across the board thing! Just as med dosages isn't! What works for one doesn't always work for another!

My other favorite is: Oh, you only need to check your morning numbers! Um, HELLO I'm not only a diabetic in the morning! I'm diabetic 24/7/365!!!

This isn't just for OUR knowledge it's for THEM as well, so they can do/prescribe what is necessary for us to get our numbers where they NEED to be, and so we can do OUR part (eating properly, exercise) to get our numbers where they NEED to be!

This pisses me off to no end, to keep hearing this over and over and over again out of these docs and nurses and such!

I am utterly disgusted with the medical community these days! The more I hear, the more I believe that they all got their medical education from a $9.95 Walmart course or something!

It's a VERY sad state of medical affairs when patients know WAY more than the doctors about this disease! THEY went to medical school, not us! They're supposed to know this stuff! ESPECIALLY the ones who SPECIALIZE in Diabetes!

Hear Hear! Makes me wish I had trained as a Dr