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Hi Jules. Hope you were able to ask all the questions you wanted like if there is a reason BH is now diabetic (related to medical history) or just pure bad luck. Guessing you should be referred to an endocrine specialist to answer that.
Is the nurse you are going to see a nurse at you GP practice that deals with other conditions within the practice or is she a dedicated diabetes nurse? She will be able to give you advice on diet but you are entitled to see a dietician. If she is a dedicated Diabetes nurse that is fine. In my experience a GP nurse that simply deals with the diabetics at the GP practice where she works will not have the detailed knowledge of the later.
For example; when I had to start having insulin jabs the nurse at my GP clinic told me to put my used needles (sharps) in an empty bleach bottle with the child safe top, then throw it away in my normal household refuse. A few years later when I went to meetings I was referred to through an diabetes and endocrine clinic I found out that I could have been fined £1000 for doing that. I had to ask to be prescribed sharps containers. My daughter is a tattooist and always thought there was something wrong about what I was originally told to do.
It's like everything else in this country, we don't always claim what we are entitled to. There are government guidelines that set out the care you are entitled to as a diabetic. Claim it. It's BH's and yours.
Sorry if I sound as if I am ranting but it makes me so angry when people are left uninformed and end up having to find things out for themselves when it was the job of a 'professional' give them the facts and the options that would potentially change their lives.
Take care Jules and BH. X
Is the nurse you are going to see a nurse at you GP practice that deals with other conditions within the practice or is she a dedicated diabetes nurse? She will be able to give you advice on diet but you are entitled to see a dietician. If she is a dedicated Diabetes nurse that is fine. In my experience a GP nurse that simply deals with the diabetics at the GP practice where she works will not have the detailed knowledge of the later.
For example; when I had to start having insulin jabs the nurse at my GP clinic told me to put my used needles (sharps) in an empty bleach bottle with the child safe top, then throw it away in my normal household refuse. A few years later when I went to meetings I was referred to through an diabetes and endocrine clinic I found out that I could have been fined £1000 for doing that. I had to ask to be prescribed sharps containers. My daughter is a tattooist and always thought there was something wrong about what I was originally told to do.
It's like everything else in this country, we don't always claim what we are entitled to. There are government guidelines that set out the care you are entitled to as a diabetic. Claim it. It's BH's and yours.
Sorry if I sound as if I am ranting but it makes me so angry when people are left uninformed and end up having to find things out for themselves when it was the job of a 'professional' give them the facts and the options that would potentially change their lives.
Take care Jules and BH. X
It's horrible when health issues start to pile up like that, you begin to feel victimized by your own body. Hope your BH can come to terms with this one once it's under control.
as much as possible. High suger, high fat diets aren't good for anyone, just much worse for diabetics. Some foods and herbs are much better than others at reducing the peaks and troughs of insulin levels, which is what he will have to aim for.
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