How Do You Cope With Diabetes?

[Plain Talker 11]

thought it best to give a reminder, deej...

[D2J 10]

thought it best to give a reminder, deej...

 

Well I only said it 20 mins ago so if my memory is owt to go by

[fuzzy 10]

So do you get prescritions free then??

 

I haven't been told i do. Have been paying for my scripts for lancets and strips.

[Plain Talker 11]

If you are on tablets, or insulin, Fuzzy, you should be entitled to a "Medical Exemption" certificate, whereby you don't have to pay for scripts.

 

You can't get Med Exemp' if your Diabetes is controlled by diet only.

 

Diabetes is one of the conditions where you are entitled to exemption, Hypothyroid (myxodoema), Epilepsy (requiring anticonvulsant meds) are others. (there are more, but I can't download the PDF that lists them, off the net)

 

Get form HC 11 from your doc, the hospital, or pharmacy, and send it off to the PPA (Prescription Pricing Authority)

[rustybum 10]

Just got my exemption card, they have put ROSSELL instead of RUSSELL and also now i'm MRS apparently. Never mind i'll get one of my old frocks out:hihi: :hihi:

[fuzzy 10]

Am diet control only so i am not exempt then, but is useful to know. Thanks.

 

Have to say that even though we have a specialist diabeties nurse at my GP, she doesn't really tell me anything, I have to ask the questions. I have found out more from elsewhere than i have from her.

 

The chocolate thing, the only thing she said was eat less than i was. On regular checking of my blood and it not going down i asked how much she meant (this was 8months after diagnosis), one square per day and not everyday, not quite what i had been having, though it was a lot less than before. Though i had not been having that i had think she would have had a fit if i had told her what i'd had before.

 

I am only just over, picked up by regular testing stemming from other problem, and not really changed a lot at all, pratice nurse checks my feet (once so far) and had the eye test done, not really been offered anything else, feel like i could do with seeing a dietician for a good telling off and a few tips though

[sTaGeWaLkEr 10]

I've been Type 2 diet controlled for the last four months.

 

Despite the fact that I've been working really hard to reduce my levels, I've just found out that I'm shortly going to be insulin dependant.

 

The natural progression would normally have been medication, but for reasons I don't want to go into, I can't take medication - hence insulin injections.

 

I know that I'll get used to it and that many people cope with it every day - but it doesn't stop me feeling a lil bit scared about the whole thing.

 

Especially not helped by my fear of needles too (and don't bother telling me how tiny they are - they're still needles )

[metaphoria 10]

If you can get used to monitoring your own blood glucose level, with the needle pen on your fingertips, in my opinion administering insulin is nothing to fear.

[Plain Talker 11]

I've been Type 2 diet controlled for the last four months.

 

Despite the fact that I've been working really hard to reduce my levels, I've just found out that I'm shortly going to be insulin dependant.

 

The natural progression would normally have been medication, but for reasons I don't want to go into, I can't take medication - hence insulin injections.

 

I know that I'll get used to it and that many people cope with it every day - but it doesn't stop me feeling a lil bit scared about the whole thing.

 

Especially not helped by my fear of needles too (and don't bother telling me how tiny they are - they're still needles )

 

 

stagey, when I developed diabetes it was a horrendous shock. (diabetes? On top of everything else!! *screeches in horror*)

 

I remember crying, and saying something really inane, like "but *sob* I don't WANT to be diabetic! *sob*"

 

What the hospital will do for you, (especially now you look like going onto insulin) is they'll get you an appointment with the diabetic specialist nurse, and they'll go through all the rigmarole with you, about how to inject etc. You'll be given the chance to practice it, and then it will become like second nature to you.

 

I promise you, you'll be amazed at the hair-fine size of the needles, and how pain-free the injecting is. For me, the bit *I* hate is the finger-pricking test thing, IMO that is more unpleasant than the injection. (and that's really not so bad either!)