Is it frustrating when people should know better...but seem to have no clue?
I was hospitalized last week,for the second time in a year, with low blood sugar
I have learned that carb, such as breads, are a way to gradually raise your blood sugar which is good.
Also proteins are important. If I eat something that’s pure sugar like cakes or candy (it’s Halloween damn it!) it causes your blood sugar to spike and then just as suddenly to crash. This is bad. To counter act the crash you eat some protein…even a spoonfull of peanut butter.
So I got that.
Well I bought some Eggos, which I love. But that,with syrup, is a lot of carbs!! Simple,fast and BANG!! Bad.
So I was wondering what easy and quick protein I could counter that with. Someone mentioned protein shakes and that seemed perfect.
However since this.is uncharted territory I’m double checking every step so I called my doc’s nurse line.
She obviously hadn’t checked my chart and treated me as if I was some regular, probably overweight person trying to lose weight she said, “We’ll just don’t eat that food with lots of sugar and butter!” (I’m 20 pounds under weight. Butter is good. But that’s a different story.)
She said that and I said “But I tend to low blood sugar!” There was a pause which told me instantly she hasn’t reviewed my chart.
Then she lamely said “Well just stay completely away from that sugar and butter stuff.” WTF?
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It’s very annoying when people who should know act stupidly! I sympathize with you.
I really think it came down to not bothering to get to know my history.I’ll talk to the doc next time I see him.
The other habit I have to break is not eating regularly. Well in order to eat regularly I need foods on hand to make quickly.
Like the Eggos are fast, but the bacon or ham or sausages…not so much.
Protein shake would be perfect
But here I am at 12:20 thawing out baconto make a BLT.
Old habits die hard, man.
I think that hospitals, Urgent Cares, clinics and doctors’ offices are chronically short staffed, especially after the pandemic when a lot of people left the health care field and a lot of people in all careers chose to retire on the younger side. Now, since these places are all short staffed, the goal is to move them out, get the call over with, etc. They don’t have time to review charts, for a call, although they should.
I had to take my daugher to an ER, a pediatrician and the urgent care all within a week, recently, for a relatively minor issue that should have been taken care of either by the ER or by the pediatrician, but each one seems to want to move the patient along and out, and not actually address the problem. (in her case, the problem was compressed ear wax which the ER said to use one home remedy, the pediatrician two days later said to use an over the counter remedy, both the ER and the pediatrician hadn’t actually don’t much touching of the patient).
I have a history of things that have required all sorts of medical, and I have found that there are two many instances where attention was not appropriately paid. Mostly the staff and professionals are really good, but there always seem to be a few that simply don’t care.
In my case it was rarely a case of places being understaffed, just of professionals being snotty or calloused.
I am sorry you are going through this, Dutch, it’s a bear.
Well I’m frying up 6 pieces of bacon. I’ll use 2 today and save the rest and by God I’ll have my eggos with bacon tomorrow!
That all being said, the only instance where every single person was always caring and careful, was when dealing with oncologists and oncology staff. But you don’t want to have to do that.
No I don’t!
This gal struck me as lazy and stupid. I’ll have a chat with the doc cause I KNOW he doesn’t want that on his staff!
Finally ate my BLT at 3. It’s 4:28. I just put a corn dog in the oven
My husband’s “best in the area” pulmonologist is beyond clueless. Month after month we do the research and make suggestions to him for treatment. The guy literally says, “Yeah, that’s a good idea. We’ll do that!”
The family has been pestering hubby about finding a real pulmonologist, so he went to a real expert in Indianapolis, and the new guy is so much better, but he’s not in the same hospital system, so he couldn’t see a lot of the notes and lab reports.
So we’re stuck with our idiot. The good news is he told us what to say next to Dummy. We’re going to ask for respiratory therapy.
If Dummy had been doing his job, Hubby would have had to endure much less suffering, and possibly extended his life.
Incredibly frustrating. I don’t expect doctors or nurses to look at my chart anymore, and every chart of mine that I have looked at has a mistake or misinformation. This is why when covid wasn’t allowing loved ones to visit in the hospital to help advocate I was terrified of being hospitalized for anything.
You can have eggs with your waffles or any type of meat and that will be adding protein. Also, legumes like black beans, lentils, or peanuts. Cheese also will have protein.
You wouldn’t believe the many times I have gotten bad medical advice from people who don’t bother to find out about all my health issues! Or sometimes even about something like my diabetes that they should definitely know about. To be fair, it’s not usually a doctor but a nurse or an assistant.
I don’t know what your insurance covers; I don’t even know if you have health insurance although I hope you do if you have diabetes. But you might talk to your endocrinologist and see if you can get the Libre 3 sensor or some similar product. My old endocrinologist never even mentioned it but since I’ve been seeing this new guy, he has gotten it prescribed for me. It took a while to get approved through my insurance, but he gave me some free samples that took me through that time.
It’s one of these sensors that you put in your arm and it stays on there for 14 days, and you have an app on your phone which will tell you what your blood sugar is at any given moment. So if you’re trying to figure things out with sugar spiking and things like that, it can be very helpful.
One warning though: try not to be too obsessed with it. There were a number of times that I probably checked it too much and then would worry if my sugar dipped a little bit and wondered if I should eat something between meals. But it will sound off an alarm if your sugar gets really low, or if it would get extremely high, so that helps. It even woke me up once in the middle of the night when my sugar went rather low.
I used to chalk it up to incompetence, now I mostly switched to lowering my expectations. This helps me stay sane. Otherwise, I’ll fall back into being anxious and triggered by it.
The most recent adjustment I had to make was doctors (or a staff member) not calling when something significantly bad shows up on a test. I still can’t believe it, but that’s how it is with most doctors where I live now. I think it’s terrible and practically negligent.
It sounds like you don’t eat many vegetables, the fiber in veggies might slow down the sugar rush also, which is leading to your probable over production of insulin. Have you looked up information about a hypoglycemic diet? Fewer processed carbs and instead eat complex carbs. Also, protein as you mentioned and less carbs.
Side note: If you watch your cholesterol intake (it doesn’t sound like you need to?) just pointing out protein drinks often have cholesterol, most people I talk to don’t realize it.
No diabetes @LifeQuestioner. Just hypoglycemia.
The only thing I need to get is a finger sticker thinger. At first I panicked because my insurance won’t cover it unless I have diabetes (wtf?) but turns out it’s only $36.00. So I need to get that.
Don’t want to wait until I’m so damn out of it that I call an ambulance on myself again!
Neuropathy. It’s a nerve disease usually associated with diabetes.
I know. It’s weird.
And in extreme circumstances I can walk. My feet are numb but I learned I can still feel pressure. So I used the pressure points on the balls and heels of my feet to teach myself to walk again. But it’s still dangerous although I haven’t fallen in months.
My grandmother had neuropathy in her legs in her 80’s. She never had diabetes.
My mom got it in one of her legs, as a side effect from chemo. A friend has it in one of her legs as an after effect from bad back surgery.
Deficiency in B12 can cause it. I assume the OP has been tested for B12. She said she wasn’t drinking now, but if she was drinking heavily in the past that can cause some liver damage which can impact B12. I don’t drink at all and I tend to have lowish numbers without taking a supplement. I would be deficient in some European countries.
The US has different parameters than other countries for B12. Some other countries set their low end of normal higher than the US, and I think they are probably correct.
When B12 deficiency causes damage it is usually permanent, but increasing B12 can stop it from progressing.
Well Meals on Wheels came through with blazing colors! A tuna sandwich on a sesame seed bun. Was pretty good too!
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