Nine minutes with the diabetes nurse — what I took in

Started 25 May 2024 · 21 replies · 250 hearts · read 4.5k times

RonanBelfast, NI · 25 May 2024

2.2 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Nine minutes with the diabetes nurse — what I took in Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

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

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

OdileMontreal, CA

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

GwendaEbbw Vale, UK

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

MarkCoventry, UK

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

OzzyAdelaide, AU

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

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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DuncanPerth, UK

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.

SunnivaBodø, NO

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

RowanInverness, UK

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

NadiaCairo, EG

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

CatoAntwerp, BE

#10

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

TamsinRedruth, UK

#11

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

RillaAberdeen, UK

#12

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

RomyVienna, AT

#13

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

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

FlorrieBlackburn, UK

#14

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

IkeChicago, IL

#15

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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JontyOxford, UK

#16

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

ObiLagos, NG

#17

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

GwynethAberdare, UK

#18

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

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

SolomonManchester, UK

#19

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#20

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GigiNaples, IT

#21

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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