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Getting nowhere with current Hematologist

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: 23 hours ago | Replies (24)

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@shmerdloff

The red flags have not been waving you in. I have great md s who listen and are attuned. I have another who is "numbers." He wants my bp and sugar at levels for someone 60 years younger. If I don't "get them down," more pills. The other docs took me off some of the pills. He says diabetic. Others say pre diabetic. One says "You are not diabetic. " Finger stick 114. We have to be in charge of our own care, but walk a fine line so as not to be a difficult patient, Gd forbid.

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Every pill we swallow has its own side-effect profile, so we can end up getting side effects from the meds we take for side effects of chemo. I have to accept that the gift of longer life that chemo gave me came with a price of these annoying side effects. Some side effects I accept and live with, some I can take meds for. That’s the choice we have. I can wish that our specialists were more forthright about this issue.