Diabetes

Thanks Bruce,will visit my practice nurse in a week or so.

Mista h

DOCS........Are any of  you available for consultation today ?

Just had a new product added to my collection(gonna need a bigger bathroom cabinet)

GLICLAZIDE

Do you know if this is a take for life product or just a quick fix job?

Thanks in advance

Mista h

Careful now H. If you keep adding more pills, it will need you to turn down the Bass on the hifi. Could get some spurious rattling sounds from body at high volume !

It is really hard to answer that question without knowing your case.

Gliclazide is a frequently used treatment that works well and quickly. It can be taken in various doses according to the situation. If you've been a bit poor recently with diet etc and can get that back on track it may no longer be needed when you've improved your results. However the trend of Type II diabetes is to slowly worsen over time, so it maybe this is now going to be a long term requirement.

So that totally fails to answer your question!

Bruce

Hello Bruce

results of blood test last week.......sugar levels up........another blood test in 3 months

Gliclazide.....been given 86 tablets of 80mg

cannot understand why my blood sugar levels are up,dont smoke,do a lot of excercise and sweets etc are a very rare treat.

mista h

Just been diagnosed (yesterday) with type 2 diabetes, feeling overwhelmed a bit and trying to work out the lifestyle changes. Doctor says it is a wake up call, but reading some literature it seems inevitable that a lot of people will eventually get this as they age. I'll be 54 at the end of next month and want to live quite a bit longer. I'm luckier than a lot of people, but have led a clean life, never smoked, rarely drink, it's probably the food....

Tim

Sorry to hear that Tim.  Good luck with the 'healthy' diet. G

timbo

Check out the Diabetes UK website, a great place to start the learning 'journey' with diabetes.

I guess the point is similar for you and Mista h. Diabetes is a mix of genetic and environmental factors (such as obesity). If you do everything 'right' you reduce your risks of developing it (and increase your chance of controlling it well) but it may be insufficient to prevent it developing or control it sufficiently. Healthy lifestyles reduce risks but they are not guarantees. This does not mean give up the sensible stuff but you may well have to accept additional help from medication in spite of it.

I'm skinny, drink about one unit of alcohol a month and have never smoked. I cycle about 3000miles a year. I have high blood pressure. Such is life.

Bruce

hello Tim

Also sorry to learn you have joined one of the worlds biggest clubs. if you are anything like me i dodnt feel any different now to when i was first told i was diabetic.

If you are like me you will soon have a medicine cabinet piled high with metformin.

Please do post on this M/B from time to time to let us know how things are going.

Mista H

Thank everyone, it's sort of nice to be part of a large club 

I will post as I will probably need some guidance. Thanks for the web site, I will have a look this evening. Have to pack away lots of garden things today and tomorrow as we have the first serious snow scheduled for the weekend here in Edmonton.

Tim

So my doctor told me to get a flu shot as diabetics are at a higher risk of getting the flu, never had one before. Had it done yesterday and also had a shot for pneumonia.

Feel absolute crap this morning, top of my arm and shoulder is aching, I have a headache and feel like all the energy has been sucked out of me.

Hopefully it will all be over soon.

Hello Timbo

both kate and i had our flu jabs last week. She also had her pneumonia jab at the same time. I refused mine.my thoughts being that i did not want 2 different types of injection in one day.

Next day she like you felt unwell,i felt 100% perfect.

Mista h

Just back from my Diabetic nurse visit, all good, lowered diabetic function and something else. BP OK and couple of inches off waist and down a couple of KGs too. Slightly swollen left ankle though. 

Flu jab done too, I've already had the Pneumonia jab.

Feeling bad after a flu jab? Not as bad as the patient of one of my neighbours (he's a local GP). We were comparing 'tough days at the office' whilst putting our bins out. He won. His poor patient had a cardiac arrest immediately after receiving the flu jab. Luckily after CPR he was stable by the time the ambulance arrived. I have to stress that this is a very very rare event. If you are in a particularly vulnerable group then it's highly recommended to be vaccinated.

Mista H;

Nothing against your wife but I'm glad to hear she felt unwell. I thought it might be just me. My wife's work colleagues have all had their flu shot with no after affects. I now have a large red and hot patch adjacent to where the shots were given and have been running a fever, consequently I'm off to see the doctor this afternoon. Seems the pneumonia shot is the bugger!

Tim

Tim

You can curse my wife all you want,as i aint got one. Been with Kate for 30 years,we have both been married before so zero interest in going thru all that again.

As for Doctors mines a joke,2 weeks to get an appt. Easier to use the 3 docs on this M/B. Dr Mark,Dr Steve and Dr Bruce. They can usually sort out all my problems within the hour.

Mista H

What year do you think this good treatment will start Steve ?

Mista H

Sorry for my assumption mista h!!

It goes from bad to worse for me, I am now on anti biotics and the red patch has got bigger. The doc is erring on the side of caution, he says, worse case scenario it could be cellulitis - I hope not.

Tim

A serious question if i may steve.

Its been 2 months since my local hospital(Mayday) wrote to St Georges requesting my op. I have had no reply whatsoever from St Georges.Yesterday i phoned Mayday asking them to chase St Georges,and TBH the girl i spoke to did not want to know,just saying it was down to me to chase up St Georges. So i phoned them and got passed from pillar to post and back again. Got nowhere. Should St Georges at the very least not confirm in writing that i am on the system,or is a complaint via my GP in order ?

Mista h

mista h.

Complain to the hospital PALS service if you like, not via the GP as it really has nothing to do with them (although they might get surgery staff to chase it up for you). Best route is usually the consultant secretary direct by yourself  though. They should deal with it.

Bruce

I wrote this reply earlier but didn't press the Submit Reply button. It basically is the same advise a Bruce. I would only contact your GP as a last resort as it can take such a long time to get an appointment. 

If you know the name of the consultant you're under you could first try to contact his secretary who should be able to find out where you are on the waiting list. If you don't know or you don't get your answer then I would contact your GP to write to the relevant consultant you were referred to for the surgery. 

Good luck,

Steve

Many thanks S & B.

I had a ride down to the hospital(Maydeath) last nite and they do have a Pals dept but shut for the nite. Also have a Docs appt in 2 weeks time,and may well have a genteel word then and see what reaction i get. I have to say thou that compaired to the Marsden the treatment i get at my local hospital is just a bloody joke.

Mista H

Hello again Docs S & B

Stuck a PALS complaint in yesterday to St Georges,good job i did. Just had them phone me to say they received the letter from Maydie Hospital......and some clown just filed the letter away.

Anyway they found it and i now have an appt to see a Plastic hand surgeon in 2 weeks.Wonder if he can fix my face at the same time.

Mista H

Hello Steve

Saw a very nice FEMALE consultant at St Georges this morning a Miss Sonja Cerovac. Have to say she is better looking than all you old male docs. Gonna need 1 or 2 ops on the wrist. Op 1 is a camera in the wrist to see whats what,then maybe a 2nd op to angle grind a bit of bone away.

Biggest joke at this hospital is parking,about 10 of us driving round playing ring a ring of roses trying to find a parking space......hopeless,had to park out in the street in the end.

Mista H