New Report From UK Shows That 69 Per-Cent of Patients With Diabetes Not Taking Medicines as Prescribed: Diabetes Does Not Go Away Because You Ignore It

"Based on the research and information I have on August 06 the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright © 2006

This new research from the UK has revealed that a full 69% either are not enlightened as to the consequences of treating their disease casually or just do not care..

The Diabetes UK, report clearly shows that 69 per cent of the 202,000 people diagnosed with the condition in that region just are not taking their doctors orders as prescribed.

A full 72 per cent claim they just are not up to speed on Doctor prescribed treatment options.

Nearly a quarter, claim they really do not understand what their health care people are telling them.

This is particularly important to diabetics who see no immediate outward symptoms and think they are "getting away" with ignoring it, and totally failing to follow necessary treatment actions.

Despite your diagnosis of my having diabetes, Mr. Doctor, I am so healthy, (always been) so capable of handling life, that all that stuff is for others. I am not going to knuckle under to that nonsense.

See, I ignored it this week and nothing happened

so I am not going to get hyper about this bump in the road.

I might actually start taking and doing some of that stuff later when I really have to, but right now

I got too much going on to complicate my life any more then it is.

They have this one chance to stop it in time to prevent serious damage and they choose to ignore it. They refuse to deal with reality, to become totally aware and informed to get up to speed on taking necessary prompt action in handling their disease.

Will you really be able to feel sorry for them in the future, when you see them in a wheel chair, on kidney dialysis to stay alive, or slowly going blind.?

You or they will not be able to go back and change it, no matter how much money you inherit.

You will be stuck with the status quo even if you are lucky enough to remain alive.

The Important Thing Is Getting Your Diabetes Under Control Medications, or Diet, Exercise, and Supplements, or Do All Of Them. Delay means your diabetes may advance into, (or already is doing) totally unknown to you, irreversible body damage. Medications get fast results, but have side effects and other downside but do act fast. Exercise, changed diet, and supplements can usually replace medications but can take weeks to get the same or even better result. Our suggestion is follow precisely medications etc as immediate action. Work with the other controls to lower Blood Sugar etc, and when effective over time.  Work with your doctor in getting off of medications as fast as they become no longer necessary to control your diabetes.

You are supposed to be learning there how to handle your diabetes.

I went to one for 2 hours. I had already done quite a bit of research and it soon became apparent that what these "qualified diabetes educators" were advocating and handing out as to how to handle your diabetes was nonsense. (keep eating pastries, sugars etc) I withdrew from the class.

Someday I will specifically explain what some of that unworkable nonsense was. Actually I guess, I actually counter it in every issue.

They tried for months to collect $700 from Medicare for "educating" me. The claim was eventually denied.

These figures from this UK report and the figures we published last issue showing that over half do not even know what an A1c test is, (that is the equivalent of a car owner not knowing about a dipstick or ever checking the oil)

Less then 37% have their blood glucose levels under control. (equivalent of keeping the cars oil in the "operating range") indicate diabetics are essentially unknowingly committing suicide and/or are on a fast track to degeneration and disability, (and death).

(Either way, equivalent of your car going to the junk pile because you did not take care of it) You know, you can get away with being ignorant about and not taking care of your car for quite a while. You can probably get away with ignoring your diabetes for quite a while.

Unlike your car that can be overhauled and renewed when you neglect it ....your body goes straight to the junk pile, NO OPTIONS.

We try desperately to get your attention, but if you are paying big bucks for medical care, enormous amounts for prescription drugs and then still ignoring it, as these figures indicate, what chance does a buck or two spent on newspapers have of getting your attention to take action?

Maybe I need to tell you an old farm story about a stubborn mule. A farmer bought a mule that he had observed as a hard worker. After purchasing and gotten it to his farm, however, he found no matter what he said or did to it, he just could not get this stubborn mule to do a thing.

So he went back to the farmer he bought it from and said he wanted his money back, "this mule is worthless, wont do a thing".

So the seller goes over to his farm and says, "here, I will show you how to handle this."

Well he says "its simple....the first thing you got to do is you do have to get his attention."

It looks like I need a two by four. My best guess is that over 50% of the people that buy or subscribe totally ignore everything they read here, a few do say, "that was interesting" but most like the mule...do absolutely nothing.

My guess is that ten per cent make some changes as a result of reading this diabetes paper and maybe 5% really pay attention and it changes their life.

You know, I have been thinking....what works with finally actually getting smokers motivated enough to take action and quit?

Maybe its those horrible pictures of the insides of lungs of long term smokers, videos of wonderful people coughing to death and slowly dying a painful death in a local hospital.

Maybe that does it?

My goal is solely (whatever it takes) to educate and jar you to take action to save yourself from the damages of diabetes while you still have time.

Therefore maybe my time would be better spent going down to the hospital and photograph and video tape those that ignored diabetes and it is now too late.

Interview them, make a dvd and let them tell you what they wish they had done when they had a chance when they first found out they had diabetes.

Yes, I may do that very thing....

My motto has always been "Do Whatever Works," no matter how crazy it sounds or seems now.

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