This article lists some common misconceptions of diabetic patients in various aspects of medical care, medical treatment, medication, life and exercise.
1, choose expensive drugs
I often hear patients and doctors say that they must give me the best and most expensive drugs to treat. At present, diabetes drugs are divided into 5-7 major categories. Different kinds of drugs are suitable for different people. The choice of medication is generally based on the patient’s condition, glycosylated hemoglobin, pancreatic function, liver and kidney function, whether obese and many other factors to decide. A high price does not necessarily mean it is right for you. It is like: a suit and a skirt, the former is suitable for men, the latter is suitable for women; if the other way around, both are not good-looking.
2.Stick to one method
This type of patient is very obedient and very compliant with the doctor’s prescription. Keep using one regimen for several years in a row, such as using insulin 5 years ago and still using it today. This is wrong. Treatment regimen is something that needs to be adjusted according to the condition. It is like wearing clothes: a cotton jacket in winter and a dress in summer. The program given to you by the doctor at that time was made according to the situation at that time, for example: some patients only need to play insulin for half a year, long-term use will in turn increase weight, which is not conducive to blood sugar control.
3.Family members work for you
Many family members are so attentive to the patient that they come to prescribe the medicine instead of him, peel all the pills and put them in the medicine box one by one. The patient is not in contact with the doctor for a long time. The disadvantages of this are obvious. First of all, the disease is the patient’s own business, and he or she must have some knowledge of diabetes, understand his or her condition, know what medications he or she is taking, how to react and communicate with the doctor, and so on. Having a family member do it for you will make the patient lose his initiative and will be passively placed. It is like a small child, you provide him with very good conditions, but he does not like to study himself, and it is difficult to improve his grades.
4.Only prescribe medicine without examination
Many patients think that only the prescribed drugs are ‘to see the doctor’, the less examination the better. In fact, diabetic patients need more detailed examination, to understand the development of complications, timely adjustment of the drug program. Without meticulous examination, treatment is no direction and blind medication.
5.Pessimistic attitude
Many diabetic patients say: diabetes is not curable anyway, I will not take drugs.
Diabetes is not curable, but can be controlled. Like a fierce beast, you can not kill it, and can not transform it not hurt people, but you can lock it up. As long as it is not put out, there will be no problem.
6, excessive control of diet
Many diabetics think: diabetes is that nothing can be eaten.
This view is very wrong. Diabetes can not rely only on control diet to treat, we ask patients to ‘control the diet’ means ‘should not eat do not eat’. And ‘what should be eaten’ must be eaten. For example: three meals a day, necessary proteins, fats, and even fruits/vitamins are to be eaten. Long-term failure to eat will cause malnutrition and a decline in fitness.
As for what to eat, according to the individual situation, under the guidance of the doctor to eat reasonably, so as to benefit blood sugar control, beneficial to health.
7.Refuse early medication
Many patients find out that their blood sugar is not high when they have diabetes, so they are very taboo to take medication. Their point of view is: they can’t break the medication and have to eat for the rest of their lives.
This view is very wrong. Early stage diabetes, or pre-diabetes, when blood glucose is only slightly elevated is given aggressive intervention and can be controlled with only the smallest dose and the least amount of medication. It is even possible to reverse pre-diabetes so that it does not develop into diabetes. It can be said that ‘mild diabetes’ is the ‘golden period’ of treatment. Missing it will only allow the blood sugar to slowly rise to the point where the patient thinks it’s ‘okay to take medication’.
Again: taking medication early has nothing to do with whether or not to take it for life. Lifetime medication is determined by the disease itself, not by how early or late it is taken.
In short, good blood sugar control will greatly delay and reduce complications, so that diabetics can live as normal people, and does not affect life expectancy.