Finding it difficult to limit carbs

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  • Hannahwalksfar
    Hannahwalksfar Posts: 572 Member
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    Hannahwalksfar wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Hannahwalksfar wrote: »
    I’m just going to tell myself that all the woos mean the people love my advice

    More likely people are reacting to your sensational and unwarranted comment that the OP’s life is not worth bread...

    I see. To clarify I meant that the op’slifeisnt worth risking eating bread and making themselve’s sick. So their life is much more valuable than the bread they want to consume.

    There is content and there is tone, and people react to both.

    OK 😊
  • mhncaldwell
    mhncaldwell Posts: 17 Member
    Please ask your doctor for a referral to a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. If your doctor can't recommend one, you can suggest using this site: https://www.eatright.org/find-an-expert . Here's hoping you get the help you want!
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    cbihatt wrote: »
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    Hannahwalksfar wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    Hannahwalksfar wrote: »
    It’s like doctors shouldn’t even exist according to the majority of posters here. Bit concerning really.

    Not really. But what is concerning is people who think that doctor's words should be taken as gospel and everyone should follow them no questions asked.

    Most doctors recieve very little nutritional training. Nutritional advice is not their areas of expertise. That is why we have registered dieticians. The truth is even with years of medical training, most areas of medicine are not any particular doctor's area of expertise, because the field of medicine is so vast. More than you think, doctors rely on Google like the rest of us.

    And they also beleieve plenty of wrong information. My dad's endocrinologist told him he needed to stop drinking diet soda because "your body doesn't know how to process it and it all gets stored in your gut." That's not a real thing that happens. It's not true just because a doctor said it.

    Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America. The world is undoubtedly better off because it has doctors in it, but people would be bettter served by not putting their doctors on a pedestal, and questioning advice that seems suspect.

    My doctor saved my life so I’ll trust doctors over internet people. Especially when it comes to potentially life-threatening issues like diabetes.

    Trusting doctors unconditionally is a really bad plan. While I have had a lot of very good doctors, there was also one who could have killed me on accident had it not been for a pharmacist who questioned what he had prescribed. And yes, the doctor had a full and up to date list of all of my meds. As a result of that unfortunate decision on the doctor's end as well as various other doctor related blunders, I ended up with a very nasty kidney infection to go along with the bladder infection and needed IV fluids (because I couldn't keep anything down, water included) along with IV antibiotics.

    Better that than a potentially deadly drug interaction though.

    I've had some great doctor's but I also have two friends who had parents were accidentally killed by their GP.

    In one case my friend's mom called the GP requesting a house visit because she felt so poorly. He advised her to take an aspirin and call in the morning. A few hours later a daughter, also a medical doctor, came to visit and noticed her mom was jaundiced. She rushed her mom to hospital but she died a few hours later of blood poisoning. Mom had a liver infection but it was the aspirin that actually killed her.

    In another case a friend's dad had drawn attention to a strange mole several times but his family doctor said there was nothing to worry about. When he was in hospital due to an unrelated accident, the emergency room doctor noticed the mole and immediately biopsied it and had it removed the same day. He died a few weeks later because his skin cancer had already spread.

    I visited a GP once that almost killed me too. I went to the GP feeling ill and the trainee doctor told to go home and rest because I had the flu. Around dinner time I felt so poorly I called an ambulance to take me to accidents and emergency. Good thing, because within 15 hours I was on life support in intensive care because swine flu had become viral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress. I spent 6 months in hospital that year including 2 months in intensive care. If I had waited until morning to return to the GP I probably wouldn't be around now.

    While these situations are terrible, it isn’t really fair to say the doctors involved caused (or nearly caused) the patients’ deaths. Doctors are human, and that makes them imperfect. Yes, they can misdiagnose a patient which may exacerbate an existing issue, but to blame a doctor for a death from a disease is a bit extreme, IMO. The doctor didn’t cause the liver condition or the cancer or the flu.

    I mean no offense by this. I just have sympathy for those in certain professions who I feel get less respect than they deserve, sometimes.

    Two of my four grandparents died from the medication provided by medical professionals -- not from diseases that they had, but from, in one case, being given too much of a sedative and in the other so much of a particular drug that it was a cumulatively toxic dose, causing irrecoverable damage. I think those in certain professions get so much more respect than they deserve, sometimes, that other people pay for that unquestioning respect with their lives.

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