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Permalink Reply by Tommie Campbell on May 16, 2008 at 8:18pm

Hi to all!
Yep, my sentiments exactly. What I get form Dr.s and health care professionals is...well.Mr. Campbell let's do this test and why don't we try this ...not realizing that these tests will cost me hundred's if not thousands of dollars,even with health insurance. Of course health insurance loves to decline every thing because it hurts their bottom line.However, they love to take that premium from my paycheck every month.Thanks for letting me go on a rant here.
I have had diabetes for 33 years and have mild to moderate complications but I am trying to make changes.
My name is Tommie Campbell and I teach high school. Hope to hear from some of you vets out there.

Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 6, 2008 at 10:53am

I've had to sit on my hands to prevent myself from strangling several of them.

"...You have no complications, take an ACE inhibitor, prevent them some more.

"...Gee doc, did they solve the perminant pesky cough that they are known to cause... (yeah, I know they have now but when it was getting pushed hard... they forgot that "little" complication...)..."

I have no complications, why do you insist on foisting your latest little pills on me... again?

Permalink Reply by Dean Phillips on April 6, 2010 at 2:27pm

Have had this same thing happen to me more than I care to remember. Makes me want to stay away from doctors.

Permalink Reply by Cyrise on March 5, 2010 at 7:48am

I''ve had the exact thing happen. It's like now that I'm in my 50's all of a sudden I'm a Type II? It has happened I guess because I have moved to another state and they don't know me. Does it mean they think I am a liar or stupid? One Endo put me on Metformin and I asked if I now had type I & II and she said no. Did I miss something. Can type I's get benefit from Metformin? It didn't do a thing for me. Then I requested my file and saw I was done as type II, insulin resistant. Even though I had given paper work that had the contrary. Then I went on a CMG for data to get a new pump and and was told, you're type I, you're insulin sensitive...Duh!!?$&%?! Why do they think I'm stupid? And I'm talking about Endocrinologists! I do not have any complications either. Is that why?

Permalink Reply by JDavid on November 24, 2011 at 4:28pm

My TYPE LABEL has changed a few times. First T-2, then IDDM (type-1)...then a strange thing I found in my VA record, someone CHANGED my diabetes type from IDDM to Type-2 or "other" when I was in my 40s.

If I have any insulin resistance it must be very minor, my insulin doses are typical for a type-1, not type-2.

Gomer

Permalink Reply by Richard157 on April 3, 2010 at 1:46pm

Tracy, I recently told a new friend ( not a doctor) that I have had diabetes for 64 years. He definitely had a look of disbelief on his face. Then I told him that is nothing, a man named William Rounds has been a diabetic for 86 years. His look of disbelief was even stronger. I told him that I have no diabetes complications. He had complimented me on my success, despite his apparent doubtful espression, but with that last statement he stopped the compliments and remained silent. The conversation ended. I have not seen him since. I suggested he Google William Rounds. I wonder if he ever did. Lol!

Permalink Reply by Joanna on May 17, 2010 at 7:40am

I just saw a endocrinologist who complimented me on having no major complications from type 1 diabetes after 33 years. I started on the pump back in 1979 my first pump was the Auto Syringe. That was a good feeling as he is the first medical professional who has paid me a compliment.

Permalink Reply by JDavid on October 3, 2011 at 6:58pm

Not so much about how long I have been diabetic.. I became allergic to beef-pork NPH.... now that was FUN! a diabetic allergic to insulin...now that was often a SHOCKER!. Today its not a big deal, they are all rDNA based these days.

I am 65 now, soon to be 66. When I was 14 I had my first diabetes scare, but I got better and told them what they could do with THEIR shots! While in the Navy it happened again at age 22. I had been admitted to sick bay. One morning I was told if I could pass a urine sugar test, I could return to duty and "forget" it ever happened.(guess I passed?)

After the navy, in my 30s, I got a sore throat.... my fam doc refused to see me, just a sore throat and he had "SICK" patients that NEEDED him. About 2 weeks later it was a meat-wagon ride to ER and hospitalized for diabetes.

Gomer ..sez it takes a DIABETIC to understand DIABETES

Permalink Reply by metheniac on November 24, 2011 at 10:52am

I know this is an older thread, but I am new to TuDiabetes and would like to comment: My biggest complaint with regard to how doctors respond to me is the expression I get no matter what I am going to the doc for. For example, I was recently treated for "trigger finger" and the hand doc says, "well, because you are diabetic...I can't guarantee that this won't recur..." It seems like everything thing medically is linked to my diabetes and they often make it sound like I have a death sentence. I sometimes feel that they have already written me off! I have been D for about 30 years. The other thing I hear so often is "just get your A1C down and you will be fine..." I wish the docs who say this had a clue as to how much I try. I am very brittle and go up and down faster than most roller coasters. Luckily, I have a wonderful endo, and she is very respectful, positive and encouraging.

Permalink Reply by Richard157 on November 24, 2011 at 1:55pm

I had a roller coaster control for many years and was experiencing some mild retinopathy and neuropathy a few years ago. I used much tighter control and started having fewer highs and lows. A few months later the retinopathy in my eyes disappeared, and the pain from the neuropathy stopped. Complications like this can usually be reversed, if they have been too far advanced. I have been type 1 for 66 years , and still have some highs and lows, but I am very healthy.

I hope you will also have a long, healthy life!!

Richard

Permalink Reply by shoshana27 on December 16, 2012 at 5:48pm

i have problems with medicare nor wanting to pay for enough testing strips to test 12 x dayly.

i have hypoglecemia unawareness so if i don't test it's like giving me a death sentence ):

(:

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