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Default Protein grams and portion control??? Pastorio?

In article >, Andy <q> wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote in news:Omelet-
> :
>
> > In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
> >
> >> OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote in news:Omelet-
> >>
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> >>
> >> > Be sure to get a hemoglobin A1C
> >>
> >>
> >> Please explain!
> >>
> >> Andy

> >
> > Hemoglobin A1C shows your average glucose (blood sugar) levels over the
> > past 90 days.
> >
> > A far, far more accurate estimation of Insulin resistance, and
> > developing type II Diabetes.
> >
> > My Endocrinologist uses it exclusively. :-)

>
>
>
> Om,
>
> Today I went in for fasting bloodwork. I didn't get the Hemoglobin A1C
> test as you suggested, rather just a glucose test.
>
> I was pretty ****ed off about that. I said "but it's a more accurate
> test."
>
> They took an extra tube of blood and told me to call my doc. Well... I
> called and he said there's no sign of high glucose levels (from last
> year) AND he had the nerve to say that it's expensive (as if that was
> more of his concern).
>
> I just said fine and they hung up on me. Penn Care Assoc draws the lines
> at this clinic and I'm damned fuming about it.
>
> Am I wrong in my anger?
>
> Andy


I would be......

There is a good reason that more docs are using that test to monitor.

If nothing else, it's the principle of the thing. I have yet to have a
doctor refuse to order a lab test that I have requested of them! Dr. R.
will write an order for anything I want, and my co-pay will cover any
labs requested as long as they are appropriate for the diagnosis code.

I'm careful to fall within those limits when I place my requests. <G>

A good doctor will allow us choices and listen to our concerns!
And not blow them off as "ignorance".

Especially when the doc might be ignorant too! I dumped one GP when he
told me that a low Total T3 was meaningless if the T4 and TSH were
within normal limits.

Bullshit. <G>
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson


 
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