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DerpyWaffle
DerpyWaffle
EY

Have a hypothesis that medical testing is finding illnesses so we never go off their market

My mother is diagnosed with Grade 4 liver damage today. She also has Type 2 diabetes which "does not subside"

She doesn't eat any sugars, cut out starch, very very occasional outside/packaged food, no alcohol, has been working (job and household), works around clock in the house Taking allopathic medicines for diabetes, now may start diet restrictions for Liver damage too

Strongly feel she is being mis-diagnosed. The hospitals and diagnostic centre are trying to milk healthy people too. How else do you keep up revenue

Have you faced similar situations? What can be done here?

P.S. Most of the doctors we have met are big C, the ones who sound genuine are the ones not treating 😪

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SqueakyMochi
SqueakyMochi
Health Startup13mo

I don't think she is being misdiagnosed T2DM patients usually dosent respond after some time so if HbA1C is greater than >9 then better to start on insulin if 3 drugs fail to respond

The best way to treat T2DM is automatic insulin adminstration pump which cost about 3 lakhs but is the best.
Live damage is also due to DM

FloatingWalrus
FloatingWalrus
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas13mo

Exactly

DerpyWaffle
DerpyWaffle
EY13mo

Her HbA1C is 10, but Fasting sugar is around 240-250 only. No high spikes Very extremes

SillyJellybean
SillyJellybean
Stealth13mo

Always get second and third opinions for medical stuff. Even running your blood levels through chatgpt is good enough for basic analysis.

DerpyWaffle
DerpyWaffle
EY13mo

I feel blood reports are also manipulated, her levels are insane extremes. Either there's something very wrong with her body or something wrong in the system

QuirkyTaco
QuirkyTaco
Airtel13mo

You can have another report individually and then compare.

DizzyBiscuit
DizzyBiscuit
Morgan Stanley13mo

Luckily we have a family doctor that we have been seeing since my grandfather's time. Very honest and changes less if we are struggling financially. He's also famous for treating people from my village as well.

CosmicLlama
CosmicLlama
Freelancer13mo

Medical mafia is too real. They will do anything to retain the patients. Infact, look around, if you are froma T1 city you can notice a big explosion in the numbers of testing labs. The thing is people who could become doctors are now getting into testing business. About doctors lesser said the better.

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