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10-31-2007, 11:01 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
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Well I have just wasted another half hour of my life talking to a doctor. Went to get signed back to work and change my insulin pen type.
What a waste of time. He told me to seek the advice of a diabetic specialist nurse. So now I am stuck at home for another 2 weeks and not a happy person at all.
He also said that using an insulin pen which only has increments of 2 unit. should not be a problem for me and that its my understanding of insulin treatment which is at fault. And refused to give me insulins in vials with syringes. He made me fee like all this is my fault.
I just wanna go back to work and feel truly fed up. |
10-31-2007, 11:07 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 7,302
| | Sorry to hear that Rich ! 
That stinks !!!!!!! 
__________________  Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you.
Pumping ain't easy but it's well worth the effort to me.
I am a person. I WILL NOT allow myself to be defined by a number!!!!
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10-31-2007, 11:31 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,412
| | | Hey Rich...... know what time it is????
Time to find a new doctor. Sorry about your trouble. |
10-31-2007, 11:35 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,084
| | | Stupid doctor. Ask him if a working pancreas can only dose in 2 unit increments. |
10-31-2007, 11:41 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,084
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Originally Posted by Scratch  Stupid doctor. Ask him if a working pancreas can only dose in 2 unit increments. | If he answers yes, then his understanding of how the human body works is flawed. If that is so, then he is either a twit or a stubborn git and not a doctor worth seeing. If England's NHS has a way for you to lodge a complaint, I'd suggest doing so.
If he answers no, then ask him to consider again if he should write you a script for a pen that will dose in finer increments so you can more successfully emulate the human endocrine system. |
10-31-2007, 01:34 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
| | | I sorta said that too him in not so many words and then he reccomended I see a D nurse. Idiot.
Think I'm gonna find me a different doctors surgery. |
10-31-2007, 03:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
| | | Did have some good news this afternoon . Spoke to one of the managers at work whom had talked with the GM about me going back part-time and he said it wouldn't be a problem. Yay.
Every cloud..... |
10-31-2007, 03:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Knox Vegas
Posts: 244
| | Let's all form a posse. Any time some idiot who claims to be a doctor says something like what this person said to you, we will all meet up and go over there and kick his a**.
That includes insurance companies, too.  |
10-31-2007, 03:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,983
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Originally Posted by lisa821 Let's all form a posse. Any time some idiot who claims to be a doctor says something like what this person said to you, we will all meet up and go over there and kick his a**.
That includes insurance companies, too. | Lisa.. I bow before you and kiss your feet
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10-31-2007, 04:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
| | | Lisa, you are our posse leader. |
10-31-2007, 04:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Knox Vegas
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Need I say more... |
10-31-2007, 04:38 PM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 576
| | | Do you need an RX to buy insulin pens? I mean to get them covered yes, but if you can just go to a pharmacy, cough up the money and buy what you want, then if you don't get anywhere with your doc/nurse that might be the way to go.
Two-unit increments would be WAY too much for Aaron. I'm still wishing we could program an insulin to carb ratio of 1 to 5.5 as 5 is too much for breakfast and 6 too little...
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10-31-2007, 05:05 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
| | | I think I will have to wait til my annual rewiew at the hospital next month. The pharmacist was very helpful and looked the SoloStar pens up for me but couldn't find it on the computer. She told me that if I get anymore info they will change the prescription for me with the docs office.
Lisa that pic is awesome. |
10-31-2007, 05:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 887
| | | Sorry to hear you've had problems like this.
A good GP is one who knows his limits. You cannot possibly know about every single bit of the body to the extent that is required to refuse 1 unit insulin pens with a comment like that. I personally wish that my 1 unit pen would do half units, as (if I'm running a bg of 9.0) I would like to be able to whack in the exact amount to get me to a 5.0 rather than have to settle for either a 6 or a 4.
If you have similar ratios to me (and a lot of other folks) then 2 u will drop you around 4.0 (around 76 US speak). This is why I went away from Apidra in the disposable pens as if I checked my BG and was a 7.9 then there is absolutely nothing I could do about it in insulin terms without risking hypo. That is unacceptable. As 7.5 consistantly puts you above the recommended level you should run at, he is risking your long term health just so as he can talk out of his rear end. See how he likes being an 8 and unable to treat it safely.... Unbelievable.
I'm fortunate with my GP; he is very human and freely admits that I know more about the subject than he does. As such, if I ask him for anything with a brief explanation of why I need to do it that way he just does it. He sees the bigger picture and realises that he rarely sees me for anything else due to the fact that his progressive ideas help me to keep myself out of his office!
Changing doctors takes time, but is needed long-term for you. Your current guy is acting like the village idiot on national cider-drinking day. My short term solution would be to contact the local hospital directly and get them to fax your GP the clearance to go with the 1 u pen. Write the letter out for the hospital so they just have to sign it. The less hassle they have, the more likely they are to do it for you in a timely manner.
Good luck
Gary  |
10-31-2007, 06:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
| | | Cheers Gary you are like the tree of knowledge |
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