Bad Diabetic!

Specific disagreements exist between my GP and me. If I tell him about a new problem, he is inclined to do one or both of two things. Blane the diabetes without considering other likely factors I report, and toss another drug my way. I have always been one to seek natural solutions or even suffer through something temporary before resigning myself to chemical solutions. The Cialis-caused vitreous hemorrhage does not steer me closer to taking a drug for any and every complaint. As a result, my GP is less effective to me because I tend not to mention minor or recurring problems if I think he will not consider the contributing factors.
The GP is not alone in this. When I reported the side effects of prednisone to my current eye doctor, she waved me off and told me "that’s the diabetes" and that I should get my kidneys checked. This is hard to accept when the symptoms matched those listed as side effects of prednisone and their onset coincided exactly with taking the prednisone. They also stopped in perfect timing when I had temporarily discontinued the prednisone.
Type 2 diabetics beware: one thing you will learn about your status as a diabetic is that medical professionals will stop looking for other causes to problems.
I pay more attention to my health and well being than people realize. If I am feeling different, I am going to look at recent changes or adjustments before I resign myself to blindly accepting general statistics that something "just happened" because I am diabetic. Yes, diabetes can contribute to dozens of problems and complications.. My system had been stable for years, and in my experience including the eye and foot problems that now permanently plague me, diabetes was a sinister opportunist in amplifying problems, not a spontaneous cause of any of them.
My GP does not accept this. Many don’t. My GP has one glaring annoyance with me. I do not think he is wrong on this point. He may very well be right, but this issue has side effects and other problems that he finds acceptable. Don’t. There’s discomfort involved, and permanent problems that diabetes can become opportunistic of, even though the problem roots from diabetes treatment.
The warning before the big reveal here: I can get away with this. Arrogant as this sounds, I’m smarter than average. More importantly, I pay attention to my body and what it says and what recent changes may contribute to new or different feelings for good or bad. I have been diabetic for almost forty years, and that’s a lot of experience.
Type 2 diabetics especially should not take my discussion of how I handle myself as medical advice or encouragement for them to do things the same way. The learning curve of the newly diagnosed takes years to develop, and anyone without the innate knowledge of themselves and their body’s reactions cannot handle this the same way.Here’s the basic, drastic reveal of death defying management that baffles and angers most medical professionals. This will be shaping the direction of the blog for a while as I go into details in the future.
I refuse to home test my blood sugar.