My doctor just approved the pump without question. I had to do a current A1C test to put it on the form, but I don’t think that A1C (6.4) was a factor one way or the other.
I don’t lie, it’s why I’m so emotional when I see my doctor. I know he will be disappointed, lol.
You were very fortunate Zoe. I hope you are enjoying your pump as much as I do mine.
I’m the only Type 1 my doctor has, Richard, so he lets me pretty much lead the way. I’m still in the learning curve, at one month, but I’m confident I’ll get it all figured out and love it. Hey, and learning new things as we get older have been demonstrated to prevent Alzheimer’s, so it’s all good!
Lies always catch up to you in the end. It’s really hard to keep 2 versions of the truth going.
Lol, Zoe. Maybe we should go back to school and learn many new things!
I’ve noticed that some doctor’s are extremely judgemental. I have had more problems with doctors who are diabetic than those that are not. I haven’t had this new endocrinologist for a few months now and so far so good. My last endocrinologist you couldn’t even get into if you were sick. I go see him on Monday, Feb 14th because I’m around 7 weeks pregnant and need to speak to him about it.
WOW! A doctor who would share online info from diabetes forums is most unusual. My neurologist is totally against anything from a diabetes forum. I have learned to not say anything about them when I see him.
Actually taking a course is very much recommended for older people; between staying active in general, and using our brains in particular, it’s all good! Right now I’m learning new course management software for the course I teach online as well as learning the pump so my “dance card” is definitely full. Oh yeah and Spanish class on Skype every week! Except that just reminds me how old I am…I should have been fluent already!
i agree with the point about the doctor asgrown-up and we as small children who need to be obedient…though for some of us, like myself, we were small children/adolescents and for me the transition to seeing myself as in charge of my own diabetes care decisions took awhile. I think it’s similar to how a grad/college student might view a teacher (can question what’s being taught) vs elementary school kids who tend to accept what is taught
That is a good analogy, I like that, and I agree!
I have to admit that I have lied to several doctors in the past, but it was mostly because of lack of trust and the way that they made me feel for not doing what they wanted to their specification. Now I have found a great doctor as well as an excellent allergist. I don’t lie to either one of them because I feel that there is trust and a friendship with both of them and I would feel guilty about doing so. I also feel that they might know if I lie to them, so I don’t risk it and risk ruining a great relationship with them. Even when I see that my numbers are off and I think about not recording them, I always do since the A1c will show what’s been going on anyway, and I try to figure out what made those numbers be off instead. So I feel that there needs to be a trust and understanding with your doctor to not have to lie to them. I guess that like Richard, I’ve been lucky that if things are working for me, my doctors also understand, commend me for doing so well, and tell me to keep doing what works as they take down notes.
Sounds like you have a great relationship with your doctor, Jesus; the way it should be but often isn’t!
Though I don’t disagree that there is some misinformation on the internet, and we should all take things we read with a grain of salt at times, there is also a great deal of useful information, not to mention support. The docs who are against info garnered online may say it’s because of misinformation, but imho it has more to do with their proprietary hold on “medical gospel” being threatened. Especially in the U.S. I think the medical community has definite control issues. My pharmacist here was shocked when I told her that when I lived in Guatemala I could buy anything I needed in farmacias there without a prescription!
Unfortunately, that is so true. I got lucky, but even then, it took years of going from doctor to doctor.
I am pleased that your relationship with your doctors is so good, Jesus. Your honesty has made things work that way. It was the same with me, and my doctors.
I loved my first Endo, she was also a T1, so I wanted to know everything she did, afterall she had the medical knowledge and the experience! I was so fortunate because she would never make me feel like a failure for having crappy control during exams or that time of the month. She’s the one who taught me how to read my BG and make the necessary adjustments. She empowered me and I am thankful to her for that.
Now I expect my doctors to work with me, and if they want to judge me or talk down to me like a naughty child then they get to see me stand up and walk out! We have to live with the consequences of our choices and their only role is to advise, educate and inform us. When all is said and done, we decide whether we’re going to be good little diabetic and follow all the rules so why waste the time lying!
Wish me luck because I just moved and now am looking for a new Endo!!!
I had a wonderful CNP for 22 years, my sad story. And she left the clinic that we used. I was heart broken. I didn’t ever feel like I had to lie to her about anything. I went through 3 docs to find my new PA, and those docs were no-brainers. I swear my CNP and PA know more than they do, care more than they do…these guys were the type that I would have lied to if I had stayed in their practices. I can understand that person’s stand and the lying, but really as we all can figure out he is really only hurting himself by not being truthful. That’s why I think it’s so important that you find a medical team that you can trust, confide in and feel comfortable with.
Well it is not only the endo’s call it is also the rules of the insurance companies. So for those that contrive logs to get the better care that they deserve, more power to them!
Richard, you have posted one of the most important questions there are.
Doctors’ personalities are so individual, and their practice is so mitigated by that personality. There is no wonder people lie to doctors. Research for many years hit on “lack of compliance of diabetics”. Doctors-in-training read that over and over.
Well, no one really helped to make it very possible to follow a set of guidelines that would keep one in the target zone. So we were labeled non-compliant. We do what has to be done. We use our wits. And if that’s lying, so be it.
When we get a doctor who works on the problem to help us get in the target zone and whose personality shows he’s with us, not complaining, not judging for judging’s sake, we don’t have to lie. We get helped.