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I've been diagnosed with PTSD since 1995, and in that time I've had both good and bad doctors. I've learned they're just people, too. I take responsibility for my own wellness. It's up to me to put their findings about me and my condition to practical use. It's up to me to take meds when prescribed as prescribed, learn diligently from therapy, and be honest and open with my peers in support groups.
That said, once in a while I still find myself on the short end of a doctor patient relationship. This isn't about my psychiatrist or therapist, but about my doctor in charge of my treatment for diabetes.
This might sound like something for me to post on the diabetes support group site here at DS. Well, you'd be right. I have. I'm posting here, too, because it's related to my PTSD for me, though. Having my diabetes be stable is important for me to be able to pay attention to my PTSD symptoms and not confuse the two. High blood sugar and low blood sugar can seem like an anxiety episode or a depressive episode.
I have a diabetes doctor who is supposed to be a specialist in the field, and I've always done what he says. However, I've always had trouble communicating, just getting through to him. Now I've begun to have low blood sugar episodes to the point that I feel faint and light headed at work. I keep having to buy apple juice at work to prop up my blood sugar levels to get me through the day. My blood sugar meter has documented that my blood sugar is below normal levels despite my taking my meds and keeping to my strict no sugar diet.
So I called my diabetes doctor's office. His receptionist said that he's on vacation this week and next week. So I asked for whoever's covering for him. I was told no one is. I asked what I was supposed to do. She said just to go to the emergency room.
I've been this guy's patient for 2 years now, doing all the said to do, seeing him a couple of times a month, done every kind of expensive test under the sun and now it's just to the ER with me to a doc who's a stranger and has none of my test results and records?
I say it's time for me to find another diabetes doctor. What do you guys think?
That said, once in a while I still find myself on the short end of a doctor patient relationship. This isn't about my psychiatrist or therapist, but about my doctor in charge of my treatment for diabetes.
This might sound like something for me to post on the diabetes support group site here at DS. Well, you'd be right. I have. I'm posting here, too, because it's related to my PTSD for me, though. Having my diabetes be stable is important for me to be able to pay attention to my PTSD symptoms and not confuse the two. High blood sugar and low blood sugar can seem like an anxiety episode or a depressive episode.
I have a diabetes doctor who is supposed to be a specialist in the field, and I've always done what he says. However, I've always had trouble communicating, just getting through to him. Now I've begun to have low blood sugar episodes to the point that I feel faint and light headed at work. I keep having to buy apple juice at work to prop up my blood sugar levels to get me through the day. My blood sugar meter has documented that my blood sugar is below normal levels despite my taking my meds and keeping to my strict no sugar diet.
So I called my diabetes doctor's office. His receptionist said that he's on vacation this week and next week. So I asked for whoever's covering for him. I was told no one is. I asked what I was supposed to do. She said just to go to the emergency room.
I've been this guy's patient for 2 years now, doing all the said to do, seeing him a couple of times a month, done every kind of expensive test under the sun and now it's just to the ER with me to a doc who's a stranger and has none of my test results and records?
I say it's time for me to find another diabetes doctor. What do you guys think?
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
It's important to have a good rapport with our doctors especially with a chronic condition... We have to see them ongoing..
If you aren't happy with him I'd ask for a referral to someone else.. Your GP could do that as well..
I hope you're feeling better soon..x
in my opinion change your doctor
im not diabetic but i have family members who are diabetic
sugar level, is very important to keep stable and to know is it sugar level or ptsd symptoms
i discovered that when i get sometimes very high sugar level it almost have same symptoms as anxiety or panic attack
and now when i get symptoms very bad, first i check my sugar level and by that i know is it anxiety or kind of panic attack or because of high or low sugar level, and if its high i take one pill from my sister husband and i use it, when low i eat something sweet
in my family i have diabetic person, and my friend is diabetic also, what you are talking as i know is i think called sugar crush, when they get into lower sugar level they eat something sweet to get their sugar and no taking any meds when they have low sugar
keep always something sweet with you and take it when your sugar is low and then after that wait a little and then chek sugar and if it is okay dont take meds until you chek your sugar level again and see is it high or low
im not doctor it just is because i know it from my family and friend and how they manage their sugar
take care and be well, hope you get to feel better
But if he's just another doctor to you -- no particular love for him -- you might be better served by finding another endocrinologist.
That's not an answer; it's just the math.
I'm guessing you already know the math, but ... hopefully ... it's just a helpful way of looking at it.
I've had docs that GET a couple of strikes, but I've also had docs who only had to look at me funny, and ... I'd find another.
But I've usually lived in cities where choices were plentiful.
I hope you're okay, and feeling better soon.