Yea it is hard to find this group- I think thats because if it is not used for a while it gets suffled to the "back burner "so to speak. There are so many groups here and some prob haven’t been used for a long time so it’s reasonable to assume they would not be posted on the front page. I hope all is well–Cheers–Kim
I started this group because I could not find anything…
When I was first formally Dx’d as being diabetic…
I ahd had a sore throat, my family Dr refused to see me for follow-up when I tried to get in to see him because I was jsut not gettng better, actually worse. Numerous trips to ER from work, always after lunch nobody connected it to meals/food. I had pleurasey ( a complication that can be due to pancreatitis) OUCH! My bos asked me into his office one day, he sheepishly asked me if i would see a company doctor. It was obvious to me SOMETHING was very wrong and everyone else. Naturally I said yes. That morning the Co doc gave me a clean bill of health and back to work in time for lunch. That nite I sat down to watch TV with my wife and we split a small coke. Just a few ounces and my wife was calling an ambulance, and back to ER (again). I was admitted and put on the cardiac ward due to lack of O2. A day or tow later the Co doc came in and YELLED at me, WHY WAS YOUR BS SO HIGH?
IN my research of diabetes and my own history, good ole 20/20 hindsight provides probable answers to more than one thing. When I was 14, in a hospital, I was told I would end up on shots, like another kid there. I told them MY opinion and avodied the needle etc. However from then on, when I got sick, I was always sicker than others, never knew WHY. In the Navy I had another probable pancreatitis. It made sence when I got copies of records that showed it happened just weeks before I had to have a drastic increase in my glasses, another issue/complication probably liked to diabetes undiagnoised at the time). In the Navy I recall once there was a concern I might ahve sugar in my urine arround this time, but was cleared/returned to duty.
Anyhow…now I udnerstand WHY I was a GOMER in teh Navy, not to mention eluded outright diagnosis. While my diabetes has been treated more like a type-1 since just over a year after first formal Dx, I am not a typical T1, as I can recover a little residual function, as long as my pancrease is not overloaded. So I am not a LADA, a typical T-1, T-2 or even a typical T 1.5. The docs are not accustomed to dealing with ODD non-pigeon hole diabetics, heck many are not great at understanding the regular more common forms.
IF our doctors don’t understand our form/type of diabetes, how can we be expected to understand? Well we can (more like ahve to) because its our bodies, we deal with every day, to us we a one out of one not one out of a few thousand or so.
Reguardles of type, pigeon-hole or whatever teh cause, the goals and complications are the same.
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