diabetes and trigger finger/trigger thumb
well i went to the doctor today because i have been having some
problem with my left thumb, it would not bend and if i tried to make
it bend it would start shaking plus it hurt really bad. so the
doctor comes in to look at my thumb….i thought he would have
looked over my chart first but he did not. he said you have trigger
thumb and will need a cortisone shot to try to help it. i
said, “how will this affect my blood sugars?” he says,”oh you have
diabetes?” me,”yes”, he says”you don’t look diabetic” WHAT IN
THE WORLD i did not know that diabetics had a “look”. he said,
that it was a compliment and i should be rewarded for taking such
good care of myself. then made a joke and said…your reward must be
the insulin pump you are on. ANYWAYS…he says that diabetes and
trigger finger and trigger thumb is very common….I did not know
this, so i looked it up online…AND sure enough there it is.
another thing to add to the list of crap we have to deal with. that
is the 2nd doctor to tell me that i did not look like a diabetic.
when i was 19 and to leave childrens medical center where my
endocrinologists was to go to an adult endocrinologists i was scared
to death. i go to this new doctors office…he peeps his head in
and says”jennifer?” i said”yes” he said”oh…you dont look like a
diabetic.” he walked out and SO DID I. i went to another doctor
after that. did my child diabetic doctor forgot to mark the big “D”
on my forhead to inform people i have diabetes? i swear i think
judith is right the doctors are morons!!!! HUGS, Jennifer
August 27th, 2005 at 1:52 am
when my daughter was in the hospital she was told there are 2 kinds of diabetes, type 1 like her that just happens and then type 2 is “fat people” diabetes. How is that for insensitive?
Rhonda
August 27th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
Rhonda,
Although it was inappropriate, I can see it happening. As I have stated before in the group, there is always someone who graduated from the bottom of their class from the worst med school in the world with having the worst day with the worst parents as teachers. I think you may have found that person.
Joan
August 29th, 2005 at 1:42 am
Here Jennifer, Do you think I look diabetic? LOL!!!!
Take care,
Carol
August 30th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Dear Rhonda, You would be amazed at the insensitivities I have witnessed working around medical personnel and in my own life.. It’s like Joan said, you may have gotten one that graduated bottom of their class or had lousy parents or teachers. I think what drives me nuts is I think everyone should be treated with respect and dignity and that we all should use some decorum in our everyday lives but the world doesn’t work that way. My mother (God rest her soul) was a very small Italian woman who drummed it into my brother and I growing up all the manners she could think of. She always believed that we treat everyone with respect and I have made sure my kids are the same way. If one of my son’s ever and I mean ever showed the disrespect that Robby did last week on our list, I would have fixed it to where he would be eating his food through his ear. I have no tolerance for disrespect. Also, speaking of the usage of the word ‘Fat’, I was a chubby child and my worst school
memory was a boy throwing peanuts at me in class. When I ask him why? He told me “All fat elephants eat peanuts, don’t they?” I never forgot that. To this day, that man never wants to run into me if he has an ounce of sense! I weighed 75lbs. in 6th grade but I was short!
I looked like a tree stump and I knew it but that was still no excuse for him to do that to me. It’s a shame people are the way they are. I am just grateful that my mother taught me better.
Take care,
Carol
when my daughter was in the hospital she was told there are 2 kinds of diabetes, type 1 like her that just happens and then type 2 is “fat people” diabetes. How is that for insensitive?
Rhonda
August 31st, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Hey, now, if type 2’s are overweight, then I must be a type 2 and not 1! LOL
So, where’s my glucophage?
Joan
September 1st, 2005 at 11:34 am
Stacey,
Sure have! And the type 2s use glucophage and the stuff that starts with’A’ (avandia?) to get the cells more responsive to the insulin they DO produce. That was the discussion when someone was talking about a type 1 becoming type 2, also. Goodness, now that my body knows this, I wonder if it is going to become a type 2, too. Seems it gets everything it learns about.
Joan
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:44 am
THank you, Mary. That info may come in handy in the near future. (Boards are in the spring)
Joan
September 2nd, 2005 at 11:53 pm
Steve,
Hopefully that horizon stays way in the distance.
Joan