Thread: Diabetes Care Management

If your talking type 1 diabetics, the hospital staff should be deferring to the patient. No-one will understand diabetes care better than the patient themselves. Pretty much every type 1 diabetes person with any sort of mental faculties would be an expert on diabetes ... they have to be in order to survive. Some are deliberately terrible and stupid (I'm thinking of my mother inlaw when I say this). If they can't be bothered looking after themselves though, it shouldn't be the medical fields problem.

I would be very hesitant to criticise anyone in the healthcare industry. My son is a type 1 diabetic, and I've had a few run-ins with people in the care system. I would never for one second mention a name or location. I think those people are doing there absolute best given the sheer volume of workload and limited staffing levels. Most would bend over backwards to try and help you.

Where I had "issues" was trying to get my son on a pump. I ended up getting quite fed up with them, and contacted the pump manufacturers directly and going around all of the locals. They were NOT happy with me for doing this. You see they all get kickbacks from the insurance companies to get people onto pumps. I couldn't get anywhere as I kept saying "I want to buy a pump up front". So this means they wont get there kickbacks. I contacted medtronics, and not only will they get you on a pump within a couple of weeks, they will give you a 10% discount for upfront payment.

Nothing is perfect, but if you can get people onto a modern pump that talks to a glucose monitor, it is life changing.

seeya
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

If your talking type 1 diabetics, the hospital staff should be deferring to the patient. No-one will understand diabetes care better than the patient themselves. Pretty much every type 1 diabetes person with any sort of mental faculties would be an expert on diabetes ... they have to be in order to survive. Some are deliberately terrible and stupid (I'm thinking of my mother inlaw when I say this). If they can't be bothered looking after themselves though, it shouldn't be the medical fields problem.

I would be very hesitant to criticise anyone in the healthcare industry. My son is a type 1 diabetic, and I've had a few run-ins with people in the care system. I would never for one second mention a name or location. I think those people are doing there absolute best given the sheer volume of workload and limited staffing levels. Most would bend over backwards to try and help you.

Where I had "issues" was trying to get my son on a pump. I ended up getting quite fed up with them, and contacted the pump manufacturers directly and going around all of the locals. They were NOT happy with me for doing this. You see they all get kickbacks from the insurance companies to get people onto pumps. I couldn't get anywhere as I kept saying "I want to buy a pump up front". So this means they wont get there kickbacks. I contacted medtronics, and not only will they get you on a pump within a couple of weeks, they will give you a 10% discount for upfront payment.

Nothing is perfect, but if you can get people onto a modern pump that talks to a glucose monitor, it is life changing.

seeya
Shane L.

It is type 1, The issue was magnified by confusion and exhaustion post significant highs treated in intensive care. The Pumps are fantastic for many people. Sadly this is not one of them. I am getting great feed back from some a bit higher up the food chain about the Care Plan Template which may be helpful for people who get a little confused at times or people helping them like dopey me perhaps

Hi James I had a bit of scare end of May 2024, my Dr asked if I had ever had a blood test for diabetes, which I have never any way the test came back and I was 1/2 a point away from getting diabetes. Which put the be scare in me. So from June last year I stopped eat rubbish and processed food I do still have 2 slices of 7 grain bread toast in the morning changed to eating more fruit veggies nuts and small amount of meat. I now walk 3 and 1/2 klm in the morning and afternoon. Which started me on the right track of losing weight. I dropped 7kg in 3 months and had another test and I had dropped so far away from getting diabetes. I wasn't looking after my self when Mario passed away. Well to date I have lost 19kg which is 3 stone, I see the dr again at the end of the month as I have blood tests done every 3 month because of a tablet I have once a week for rheumatoid arthritis. I saw the Dr at the end of Oct 2024 and he was please with the weight I had lost which was 14kg then. It will be interesting to what he say at the end on the month. I can remember Mario saying to me a couple of times that was was getting a bit large on the back side. But when every thing happen over the last few years I knew I had to pull my self up for my boys. They didn't need to have another sick parent. I love my walks and even walk in the rain if not to heavy. The Dr I go to is the same Dr, Mario had, at one appointment we had with him Mario asked him to look after me after he was no long here, that is the type of person he was. Sorry for the long rant, Heather

As a precaution I have a full blood and urine test every year, the non fasting one as that is easy to do. Some things can have no symptoms until dangerously late, like high cholesterol which can lead to heart trouble.