I give up......

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Registered: 02-06-2004
I give up......
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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 10:58am
I cannot tell you how bad I feel. Yesterday my number was 195 2 hrs after lunch. I felt so awful at the time. Real sleepy and couldn't think properly. I knew what I wanted to say..but my words kept coming out all wrong. It took a few hrs but eventually it dropped to 144 and I felt better. Today I had my usual breakfast. Tested and was 119...i didn't have anything more to eat but started to feel crappy again. Tired with a strange headache..so I decided to test again even though only 30 mins went by. I was up to 123. About 15 more mins later my fingers started to tingle..I tested again 140. Keep in mind almost 3 hrs have passed since I ate cereal. Now first of all my numbers are normal. So why then do I feel so lousy? And why on earth do they slowly go up like that? This is the second time I have noticed this and it's really starting to concern me. How bad does someone feel, who's numbers are in the 200's? My heart goes out to them. Maybe this "full blown diabetic" thing my dr is talking about has already occured. I'm wondering if I should call him. He said to wait till the 7th. I'm tired of feeling bad. I'm also tired of having such a passive dr. Or am I making too much out of this? I don't know...

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Registered: 02-06-2004
In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 04-26-2004 - 8:19am
Well, I live in Ontario. I am about one hour north west of Toronto. The town I live in has a population of 60,000..I believe we have 15 Gp's..2 OB/GYN....1 pediatrition...no dermatologists...no endos..2 internists. They say that something like 45% of the town has no dr. The wait list for mine is 2 years. We do have 1 after hrs clinic and an Er dept at the hospital. I've been told the wait at the Er is approx 7 hrs. Here in Ontario we are suffering a health care crisis. I don't know what it's like in other provinces...but here it's bad.
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Registered: 06-06-2003
In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 04-26-2004 - 10:29am
I'm in Rochester NY, and my fiancee is a radiologist at the major hospital here. He says that they get a LOT of people coming down from Canada for mammograms and MRIs. He says these people tell him that the wait is too long at home, and that they come down here for most specialized procedures and pay out of pocket.
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In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 04-26-2004 - 7:21pm
That is amazing. You have about 1/2 the number of primary care specialists needed. It is basically one doctor to 4,000 patients. You live in a good sized town and you should be able to attract physicians. Are you able to get a referral to a doctor in Toronto? I haven't been to Canada in the winter so I don't know about the travel difficulties. I used to live in Maine and so I know can be miserable to travel around in snow can be. Are there advanced practice nurses available? By any chance is there a diabetes clinic? With medical practices being that full it is really hard to get the necessary time for treatment. I feel sorry for you and the doctor trying to provide you with care.

Mary Frances


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Registered: 02-06-2004
In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 04-26-2004 - 7:39pm
Ya! LOL...It's terrible. I believe each dr has 2000 patients. Communities north of Toronto are in dire straights. All our towns are alike. I was actually planning on seeing if theres a diabetic clinic in town. I don't know of any..but that dosen't mean much. Towns here try hard to attract drs. Companies offer all kinds of crap. Car dealerships will give away a car. Dry cleaners will dry clean the drs clothes free for a year. Stuff like that. The problem is our gov't. First...tuition is too high. Second...drs are kinda on a salary. Cause they get paid from the gov't through our taxes..of which we pay 41% BTW. They are only allowed to bill the gov't so much. It's like this...they get paid for the first 200 pap smears a year( I'm making up numbers here). The rest they suck up. One dr said that by April of every year, she has made all her salary. After that..she works for free. So it makes it even harder to pay back the high tuition. Most new graduates leave Canada to go to the U.S. where they can make money and get out of debt. Stupid free health care. Not only that but...cause there is a shortage..there is also no competition. So even if you suck as a dr...it doesn't matter...you can be rude and mean and sloppy...theres no lack of people who will come to you.
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Registered: 02-20-2004
In reply to: quincym1
Tue, 04-27-2004 - 2:04am
I'm not Canadian. I'm from AZ. Please look at the originator of the link. She's Canadian, I think.

Healthcare is a strange animal, that's for sure. Seems no matter where you live

something always happens to interfere with good care.

:-)

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 05-03-2004 - 7:50am
Sorry, kathi313 I must have replied to you without looking where I was typing!

I'm sorry you're having such a rough time quincy with your doctors. You shouldn't have to go through all this when you're working on keeping your diabetes under control. Good luck.

Zelda

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In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 05-03-2004 - 6:23pm
When I was rediagnosed after my denial period, I was at 400 and felt fine. I think it is what your body is used to. I have problems when it got lower always felt like I was too low when I was still at a fasting bs of 120. Now it has gone to 70-85 fasting and sometimes I feel really spacey. I didn't at 400, I was very alert then.


Edited 5/3/2004 6:30 pm ET ET by pdljmpr

 

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In reply to: quincym1
Mon, 05-03-2004 - 7:41pm
It's funny cause I notice strange things too. Like for example..if I wake to a BG of say 81...I feel fine. But should I get that number at anytime during the day then I feel really sick. Also, numbers below say 150 and I'm feeling hungry. Numbers above 190 and I'm really sleepy. So basically I feel good when my numbers are slightly higher then normal. 180 all day is perfect.

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