A patient discusses their experiences with diabetes management, the importance of dieticians, medication adjustments, and the need for prompt communication with healthcare providers.
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If I do go to the, I go to the King Edward in Windsor, they need to, say for example if my blood sugar is not under control, they need to actually tell me or send me to the dieticians. So they are keeping a record of their patients. So in order for my quality of life to improve basically and to reduce complication for them as well so we don't get admitted into hospitals which will then make the hospital beds and everything go wrong. So that's another issue that they need to really look after the patients, especially ones who can't look after their blood sugars very often, or their blood sugar is high, so improve them or put them on medications, like I'm on metformin as well, as well as insulin. So if, for example, if my blood sugar is not under control, maybe they can put me on some other medication. Yeah, definitely, because not many people do, because we just go to one appointment after six months or something. In the meantime, we are trying to, I am trying to control my own sugar and everything. I can get in touch with the diabetic nurses, but which is not very often because by the time they come back to you, your blood sugar within two, three days is okay. So then you say, yeah, yeah, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. But they do need to come back to you quite quickly and tell you exactly what to do. Or, you know, to say, okay, what do you eat or do you not eat? Which is not very often. I've never had a phone call from the diabetic nurses even when my blood sugar has been up and everything. I mean I have contacted them so which is a disappointing point. Yeah so they need to, especially those people who are at a higher risk or have other illnesses, they need to keep an eye on.
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