Trying to control the condition with diet and tablets has not been very successful with my average blood sugar readings never going below 10.5 mmol/L and sometimes as high as 22.0 mmol./L. (A "normal" person should have a reading of between 4.0 - 6.0).
So what does that result in for me - extreme tiredness, lethargy, increased peeing at night, increased thirst at night and no drive, if you know what I mean.
Fortunately I managed to get referred to a consultant endocrinologist (a doctor who studies internal secretions - yuk!) who suggested to my GP that I should be prescribed a GLP-1. Never heard of it. My GP had and went off muttering that they had to refer to someone else - the accountant no doubt?
Sure enough, after 2 weeks they invited me back in to see a specialist nurse who had with her a bag of torture instruments such as that below. Before giving me the prescription and showing me how to fire the said weapon, I had to sign a contract with her for a prescribed weight loss and blood test result 6 months hence. If I did not meet either of those targets I would lose the drug - all about money as suspected.
The fact that the damn thing had a safety catch on it, showed me that it was dangerous.
Grey cap off, hold against abdomen, set switch to firing and press detonator at top. OMG a loud clank and the harpoon shot forth burying itself into my ample flesh. The drugs automatically emptied themselves internally, a bit like a giant wasp and then said harpoon ripped itself free with another loud clank and back into the weapon. Thank goodness this is only a once a week exercise. I went white and started shaking like a thin fence post standing in the way of Doris.
The overall results remain to be seen. If you want to know more about diabetes or GLP-1 click on the highlighted text above. By the way there are no explosives or harpoons just a bloody big needle and spring - it is in fact similar to an epi pen
