[Diabetes-talk] question

[cheryl echevarria]

In my opinion, and this is I hope a diabetic specialist meaning an 
endocrinologist and not an internist or a Primary Care Doctor, the doctor 
definitely needs to see your highs and lows to adjust your insulin or other 
medication appropirately, it is very important that you have a specialist 
for your diabetes.  I will give you my own issues so you see how important 
it is.

I was going to my Primary Care Doctor for years, with no problem I thought 
was taking care of my diabetes, a little above normal on my sugars but did 
seem to send up red flags to her, she had left New York and moved to another 
state, a month later while driving to work, I had blurred vision in my eyes 
and couldn't see the road in front of me.  I had been suffering from 
diabetic retinopathy for years but it was stable which I thought. The next 
day after seeing my eye doctor to which he told me that he had to put me on 
disability because my diabetes has caused my eyesight to be considered 
legally blind and that I would probably lose all vision in left which I have 
done, and slowly losing the right.  He also told me to see my regular dr. 
because with a diabetic when an organ or issue occurs in one part of your 
body another may be going on as well.

I found a new primary care doctor that same week, had blood work done etc, 
The new doctor had called me in 2 days later and told me that my kidneys 
were shutting down and did any put me on medications to protect my kidneys I 
said no, Diabetes should be on ACE Inhibitors to protect there kidneys 
because the eyes and kidneys are the first to get damage from diabetes.

The end of this story is that the new primary care doctor told me to 
immediately get an endocrinologist which is a doctor that takes are of 
diabetes and to see a Nephrologist and urologist to get my kidneys checked 
out.  I had to be on dialysis from 2002-2005 I just celebrated on the 23rd 
of August my first re-birthday for my transplanted kidney.  For anything 
like diabetes I emplore you to get a specialist.

And again to answer your question, you need to question your doctor and he 
needs to readings from your meter, blood tests are good, but they need to 
see on a daily bases how to adjust medications etc.

Take care all and god bless

Cheryl Echevarria

skype: angeldn3


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul & Paula Jordan" <paujor at fuse.net>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:48 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] question


> Yesterday, I had a meeting with my primary care doctor for my usual 
> diabetes
> review.  I took my prodigy voice with me in case he wanted to download the
> info from all my readings for the period.
>
> As much as I asked, I never got a straight answer.  They opted to test my
> a1c level, but then told me that having that information it wasn't 
> necessary
> to be concerned about what data the meter had.
>
> Is this really a sensible response, or could this attitude cause him to
> overlook important information?  Am I wasting my time taking my meter, or
> what?  I'm trying to be reasonable about this, but I'm beginning to feel
> apprehensive about being dismissed so cavalierly.  Am I right, or is what
> they're doing sufficient?
>
> I'm not asking anyone to judge my doctor's competence, but should I be
> either more nasty, or assertive?  Please advise.  Thank you.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
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