So I realized that my Dr. has me incorrectly recorded in my charts.
"the patient is a 28 yr old female who presents for follow up of type II diabetes."
It's not a huge deal right now while I have insurance through my job which I no longer have on the 28th of this month but I'm worried that after while I'm searching for a job this misclassification will impact my medical assistance available. I currently take MDIs for my treatment but I probably test more than "average" (we all know average is a stupid term for testing requirements as it truly depends on the person).
I've mentioned this mistake multiple times and it's never been changed; I'm just really hoping that it'll be alright, arg... Just because I was diagnosed at 22 doesn't mean it is type II my previous Endo clearly told me when I was diagnosed that I was Type I.
I was originally diagnosed as a kid. Long before there was "Type 1", so called "Juvenile Diabetes".
Now I am well into being middle aged, have a lot of grey hair, and am definitely no longer juvenile.
Occasionally I get written up as Type 2 instead of Type 1. I have to remind the doc that while I'm not juvenile anymore that I think it's still Type 1 :-).
You might wanna make sure they don't do that, because I was misdiagnosed as type 2 (at 22) and that messed up my test strip availability and everything until I was properly diagnosed and it was sorted out.
Get it changed.That has happened to me. Even when it is a mislabeling at a specialist who is not related to diabetes care, like my cardiologist.. I always ask it to be corrected. Unfortunately, my experience from talking to type 2 diabetics online and real-life, has revealed that Type 1 insurance-allowed coverages for strips and for medical procedures are more extensive than that for type 2.
I had the same issue. I fought like a mad man to get it changed. It was an honest mistake, but I told the doctor it was fouling me up in all kinds of ways and he eventually changed it. the issue in my case happened when I started seeing my doctor in my 40's. They just assumed any 40 something's on a first appointment were type 2's. When I got to medicare it made a big difference, I realize you are not worried about Medicare, but neither was I. I just wanted it correct. Then, I became very concerned about Medicare and the rubber hit the road.
