Seeing and ednocrinologist
Okay, there always has to be one in the crowd that is different.
My experience has been the opposite of most. The endocrinologist I went to just
kept insisting I take Rezulin and increasing my insulin. I begged him to let me
stop the Rezulin because I felt so terrible. But stupid me, I didn’t just stop
taking it myself becuase back then I beleived whatever the med. community
said…and besides it said in big letters on my perscription bottle to not stop
taking without your physicians consent. So I kept taking Rezulin, my A1c got
clear up to 11. Of course he just "knew" it was because I wasn’t watching my
diet. And believe me, that wasn’t the case.
Anyway to make a very long story as short as possible, I was too sick to go to
the endo, whose office is 100 miles from here, and went to my hubby’s close by
GP. He ran tests, took me off Rezulin and worked with me until we got my
numbers down in the 5’s and low 6’s…before Byetta even.
When I asked about Byetta he already had researched it. He prescibed it for me
and worked with me again. We now have decreased my insulin use by over 1/2 and
I feel like a new person since I started the Byetta and have lost over 40
pounds.
Oh, I went to an internist, at my GP’s request, before starting the Byetta
because my doctor wanted him to evaluate my medication usage. The first thing
the internist said to me was "have you thought about bariactric surgury? It is
really helping diabetics who are heavy". Here I am a 70 year old women who has
had diabetes for almost 30 years, and a history of heart problems. Overweight,
absolutely, but not the 100 lbs that most doctors want you to be before the
surgury. Of course I had thought about the surgury before. What fat person
hasn’t. But my conclusion was I certainly didn’t want to spend what time I did
have left…if I made it through the surgury itself..sitting in the bathroom
because I’d eaten the wrong thing or taking dozens of vitamins and supplements.
I was honestly surprised that the internist would even suggest this.
Anyway, my GP is my hero…My ex endocrinologist was a jerk who, in my humble
opinion, didn’t give a darn about the health of his patients.