Dont get me started. I went into the VA urgent care clinic for sever back pain (or maybe it was kidney stone pain) and they did blood work. They said everything looked normal. This was two three months before I was dx with T2DM.
So I was going through my medical records with the VA and discovered they had my BG levels on that visit at 350 something. So i decided to do some more digging. About 3 months before that, about 260 something. And they said “all your blood work is normal. Except maybe your cholesterol is a little high, you should be on statins”.
Kinda makes me think what their priorities are. Forget about the basics of medicine. Those BG numbers should have raised red flags. Instead, my cholesterol, which was on the high end of NORMAL, in other words, still normal, drew their attention. Gives them a chance to push out statins. Diabetes? Well, we can begin treating it once he is bad enough off. Lets wait until it is a life threatening condition, and we can medicate him down from death to just seriously ill, and keep him there.
