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Originally Posted by orpy  I'm from Western Massachusetts also! So you can let me know too!  Which brings a question to my mind...when do you know it's time to switch to a new endo. Sometimes I'm not sure I'm getting the best treatment yet I'm afraid that if I switch, I might get worse...
I haven't seen the actual endo in over a year...I see the nurse pracitioner...is this normal? |
All too normal, and one reason people with diabetes have such poor control in this area.
The family practice doctor I see is in one of the better practices, but his "diabetes nurse" must have been trained in diabetes treatment 25 years ago and is outright dangerous. She's still telling people to roll their Lantus before injecting. She prescribed me 1 inch needles in a guage you could have used for crocheting. And she wanted to inject me with Lantus at 2PM in the afternoon. When I called her with hypo symptoms, she did not recognize fast pulse as a hypo system and I was referred to a cardiologist who also did not consider hypo as an explanation.
It was. But I had to quit the overdose of lantus to find that out.
And of course the nurse is still telling people to eat bananas and oatmeal and and keep their carbs high and their fats low.
I saw the doctor rumored to be the best endo in the region some years ago. He took one look at my records and said,"I don't treat people until their A1c is in the 8% range.Don't come back until yours are that high." They never have been, and they never will be if I can help it, so that was that.
I see another endo who is willing to let me try things I want to try, but I have to do all the research myself as this doctor has never so much as looked up MODY after I got the diagnosis figured out on my own. I figured out the insulin dosing myself by reading Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution a few times. About all the doc is good for is writing prescriptions. If I run into real problems I would be SOL with all these doctors.
