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What my diabetes educator arranged

Started 20 November 2024 · 15 replies · 185 hearts · read 1.5k times

OrvalWinnipeg, CA · 20 November 2024
1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: What my diabetes educator arranged Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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KaiVancouver, CA
#1

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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OrrinGlasgow, UK
#2

the opening post — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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MapleToronto, CA
#3

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#4

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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NadjaBelgrade, RS
#5

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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XanBerlin, DE
#6

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#7

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#8

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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AurelBucharest, RO
#9

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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NolanHalifax, CA
#10

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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TamsinRedruth, UK
#11

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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OrphBath, UK
#12

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#13

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#14

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OrrinGlasgow, UK
#15

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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