You know how some doctors are always telling you to lose weight, when you're above your recommended weight range? I had one doctor who literally said something about my weight every time I went to see him, even if I was there for something unrelated to being overweight. I knew at least two other people who have said the same thing about that doctor. Like if you had a broken arm, he would still talk about you being overweight, even though it had nothing to do with the reason you were there.
Like hello, yes I know that I'm overweight. Tell me something that will help, instead of making me feel like a huge cow. One of my friends actually lost weight and started looking great, and all that doctor said to him was, "It was about time you lost weight!" So frustrating! Can't you even say, "Well done!" or something? I changed to a different doctor a few years ago, just because of that.
So when I had lost around 25 pounds, I had to go to my new doctor for something or other. I was excited because everyone had been noticing that I'd lost weight, and they were happy for me. I figured she would be, too. Well, she was at first...but when she found out that I'm doing a low carb diet, and that I had been able to reduce my daily insulin injections to the point where I no longer needed them...she made a weird face and started acting strange.
I had recently done the labs that I do twice a year (blood work and urinalysis), and she was looking at those numbers, which frankly were pretty great. Well, it was like she was trying to find something wrong about my diet. She was suddenly concerned about uric acid levels, which she had never mentioned before. Maybe because I had other numbers that worried her more? I mean, my uric acid had already been high in the past, but she'd never said a single word about it. Now suddenly it was a big issue?
So I was pretty annoyed. I went home and looked up everything I could find online about uric acid. How to lower it, what caused it, etc etc. Guess what? It's apparently typical for your uric acid levels to go up when you are losing weight. I thought it was strange that she didn't know that, or worse... Maybe she knew it but had to find something wrong with the idea of a low carb diet, and the uric acid was the only thing she could find "wrong" with my numbers.
She had asked if the diabetologist knew that I'd been doing this diet, and if he knew that I'd stopped taking insulin. I said no, that I planned to tell him at my next appointment, and that I didn't think he would be worried about me stopping insulin because he had always told me that I could increase or decrease the daily dose, depending on my fasting blood sugar levels in the morning. If I am in the normal range without taking insulin, and I can control it with diet, why is that a problem?
She literally recommended that I eat more carbohydrates, and I said that I had no plans to do that because it would make me have to start taking insulin again. In my next post I will tell you what the diabetologist said when I went to see him. I think you'll find it very interesting!
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