Mary Frances

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Registered: 02-06-2004
Mary Frances
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Thu, 04-22-2004 - 1:13pm
You just answered a very important question for me and don't even know it! LOL

I was reading your response on another post and BINGO...there it was. Keep in mind I do not trust my dr and wouldn't be the least bit surprised if another dr interpreted my results differently. The lab just sends numbers..it's based on your dr knowledge weather or not you get the right diagnoses. So this is what you said:

Everyone's blood sugar goes up 1 hour after eating and normal people's blood sugar returns to a normal level two hours after eating. Diabetics aren't normal and so it usally takes 3 hours for their's to return to normal.

This is what my dr said:

Your test shows the highest level was at 2 hrs..then at the 3 hrs mark it started to come down. At the 4 hr mark the level was below the fasting level.

Now, I saw the numbers to be sure cause I don't trust him. Remember I said I looked at them myself and this ticked him off. He closed the file. And yes, my numbers started at 88.. up to 145 at 2 hrs...at 134 at 3 hrs and at 4 hrs 79.

I don't trust him.

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In reply to: quincym1
Fri, 04-23-2004 - 1:43am

I don't know why some doctors do that. It is after all your body that they are doing test on and you in one way or another have to pay for the test. My doctor sends me a paper with the results on it and I keep these papers. I think it is important to tell you exactly what the results are

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In reply to: quincym1
Fri, 04-23-2004 - 2:06am
By law, in AZ, you have a right to see any medical records. I always get a copy of all my labs and tests.

Of course, my PCP is a computer geek, and each of the docs in their practice has a roll-around computer. They do their updates right while you're in the room, and then print a copy of it for you to take home. At least my PCP prints out stuff for me. The prescriptions are written off of the computer, too. I think it's nice. I get kind of flustered sometimes and it's nice to look back at what we discussed.

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In reply to: quincym1
Fri, 04-23-2004 - 8:23am
I agree. I should be able to read my results if I want to. I think in my case though my dr is aware he's not too sure what he's doing. When I saw the gyno back in Jan..she said I either had a blood sugar disease or a thyroid problem and sent my dr a letter telling him to run the tests. Then according to her he ran the wrong ones. My thyroid he tested TSH and T4..but she said he needed a full thyroid panel. So then he had to order 2 more tests. Then those came back normal..but she didn't agree and ordered one more. She told him to run another diabetes test..he said he wasn't going too...he was gonna leave more testing up to the internist. So I see the gyno again in early June. She's not going to be too happy about him not investigating further. He wouldn't let me see the results of any test. I have no idea what my numbers are on anything...not even white blood cell count. If you try to look he closes the file. I even asked him once what the normal range was for the lab that ran the test.for the T4. he said 12-20...I said my number was 11.5. He said yes but the TSH was normal. Turns out...that isn't the normal range for the lab..the normal range was 1-12 and it does not matter if TSH is normal or not. So I was normal..lol...This kind of insanity has been going on since December.
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In reply to: quincym1
Fri, 04-23-2004 - 9:32am
Am so very sorry that you've been having such problem getting the information you need.

Not everything in life is as we'd like it, unfortunately. You'd think that with the most important thing, your health, you'd get a straight story from the docs!

I'm still trying to figure out a gyn problem. Don't know that I can trust my gyn (she dropped ob in January). I knew I was having yeast infections for almost a year. She should have caught a clue that I might be diabetic. Oh well, they're human, too. It is my life, though.

:-(