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    When reviewing your diabetes data (pump, sensor, glucose meter, etc.) with your healthcare provider, do they involve you in a 2-way conversation about your data?

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    18 Comments

    1. Mick Martin

      I answered “Often”, but that varies on who I see.

      My endocrinologist always involves me in a two-way conversation, but this is not always the case when I see one of the Diabetes Specialist Nurses.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    2. Sahran Holiday

      Always. I’m who decides. Can only have healthcare people that are willing to convince me and they have and they do. It’s a team.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    3. Annie Wall

      Whether I see my endo (who is my primary care provider) or the nurse practitioner, we go over all that data together. They help me to see a bigger picture than focusing on the odd up and downs of each 5 minutes!

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      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    4. Mary Dexter

      They ooh and aah at the time in range then give me their standard spiel about the dangers of hypoglycemia. Yadda yadda.

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      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    5. AnitaS

      I put always as I think that is what automatically happens when certain aspects of the trends are discussed. My numbers are good so they usually don’t have to do any serious looking over of the numbers, but they always ask me if there are any problems I have been having that I want to discuss.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    6. Joan McGinnis

      My endo for yes has always made suggestions and let’s me agree it disagree. Have a new one now who is just the same and young and expert on pumps and cgm data. I am so grateful.

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      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    7. Ahh Life

      When the endocrinologist says, “These are the best numbers I’ve seen all day.”, it has very little to do with me and everything to do with the difficulty and challenges that actually present themselves to the T1D person and the endocrinologist. Thank heavens they and we recognize this. ლ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)ლ

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    8. Patricia Dalrymple

      I answered rarely. He asks how I’m doing but I don’t feel he is seeing me. I don’t need a lot of care. What I really dislike is when he just says, give me your pump and does something based on some data he sees and hands it back to me. I usually go home and change it back. But a couple of times I have seen improvement in my TIR so I leave it. This time, he felt my neck, told me to get on the table, smeared goop on me, took a sonogram of my neck and told me I had a very large nodule and to come back next week for a biopsy and gave a script to the nurse. I know where the door is but he is so convenient and while I am working 55 hours a week, I need that. Just needs to improve the bedside manner. Probably won’t happen.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    9. TomH

      My insulin use is relatively low (24-28TDD), GMI, A1C, TIR are good, but I was dx’d late in life (65) and I think a certain level of knowledge is “assumed” vice “assured” by my Endo. I’d like more discussion of the why’s, wherefor’s, how’s, and possibilities of treatment. I think if my numbers were “bad,” there’d be more discussion from the Endo’s perspective.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    10. Ernie Richmann

      Yes and I always have questions prepared.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    11. Janis Senungetuk

      Always. Both Endo and Diabetes Educator committed to an equal partnership during our first appointment and have fulfilled that agreement over the past 6+ years.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    12. Kim Murphy

      My health care provider never looks at my data. She just does an A1C

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    13. TEH

      More.so with my PA. She knows the pump settings a lot better than my Endo. My Endo rushes a bit more, also.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    14. tabatha wiley

      No

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    15. Gina Lucero

      My doctor does not review my data

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    16. Becky Hertz

      Other -yes. I’ve only seen my current endo once. Prior, it was a2-way discussion

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    17. Molly Jones

      I see my Endo quarterly and we have been trying forever to figure out how to find the correct rates based on my data. The university hospital has changed my Endo a few times, but it has been a 2 way conversation with them all. My Neuro is sometimes involved.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply
    18. Brandon Denson

      Unfortunately, my last endocrinologist never reviewed my Medtronic cgm data or my Dexcom data… I know it’s pretty bad and doesn’t make any sense at all. Sometimes older doctors are set in their ways that are not best for the patient.

      2 years ago Log in to Reply

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