Have you ever not followed Doctors Orders?

Wow, I just got of a room mate situation where the guy had diabetes, and he would eat 5 to 8 times a day.. I was the one that would cook the meals.. He's wife would get down on him for eating all of the time, tried to buy foods that were healther for him but he was not willing to eat them... So I took a different approach, instead of nagging him about what he was eating.. When he was hungry, instead of him eating a big bag of chips, I would make him something else that was a lot more healthly.. One of his major no's no's according to the doctor was soda.. when I first moved in he was going through 4 or 5 two liters of Diet Mountain Dew... (Diet Soda so much healthier, yeah right, no way) anyways thats a different topic.. Instead of trying radically change his diet at once or even how many times he eats.. Try changing the quailty of the food, meaning healthier; instead of a bag of chips, try almonds. Add a couple new healthier foods, so then maybe the change wont be so hard for your husband to adjust.. If that doesnt work.. Try baked stuff instead of fried.. change the way you prepare the food.. It worked with my ex room mate... unforunately 4 days after I moved out he ended up in the hospital for a week, because he went back to his old diet.. and I only change a couple of things.. No its not a waste of your time or the doctor's time.. You care for your husbands' welfare.. A different approach may be neccesary. Good luck and dont give up you can do it:-)

in a sense, I'd have to wonder why on earth he sees the doctor. I don't go to the doctor's unless i'm really in trouble so I can't judge this man at all. I kind of know what causes someone to avoid those people.

I am a diabetic myself and I too have never had a diet for the past 8 years that I had it. But I always ate the right kind of food but without a diet I feel a change in my body two of my fingers have gone numb but I can still move it so I am going to see my dietrician soon but it will be hard to change my food style because I am not used to eating differently. I feel I wasted my own time and life not the doctor's.

In 1993 the doctor told me to go on a special diet, cutting back on certain things in order to save my health. I was 22years old and said to myself, nothing can go wrong, I am young and healthy. In 1996, at age 25, I lost my kidneys. If only..., who knows. I am not diabetic but had high blood presure. Most people suffering from kidney failure are high blood pressure or diabetic patients. Tell your husband to rather take the diet seriously or risk further effects. I do not wish for any one to be on dialysis, as I am, it is not a pleasant experience. I wish you all the best.

oh that is sad to hear your husband does not follow doctors' order. anyways, i hope that he will be follow it. i do also not follow doctors orders or prescription specially. when i think that the medicine is not good i will ask other doctors if they think that it is not good medicine i will not continue with it. i ask around first before i follow doctor's order.

I know that not following doctor's order is not a good thing but yes I have done this many a time. When I feel ill and go to doctor then the doctor told me not to keep awake till late night. But I have never followed it. Some how I feel that study can be done better in night and in my college days I used to study till late night. Again I have been told many times to quite smoking by the doctor but till now I have not managed it. So I think I am not following the doctors instruction much. But there is no problem with me as I do have illness much.

The only time I did not do as the doctor said is when I had surgery and was told I could not do anything for 8 weeks. I had to work so I went to work in less than 2 weeks. My body really paid for that and I know not to do it again. As for your husband not doing right on his diet. He is only doing wrong by himself, he is cheating himself by cheating on the diet. He should not say he will do if if he is not going to really try. He must stick to a certain calorie intake daily. He also needs to exercise. It is a waste of time and money for him to see the doctor and not do right by his diet and himself.

Well, you're supposed to abide by doctor's rules if you want a good chance of getting better but most people don't. Lots of people do things on their own either because they think they know something or because they prefer to do whatever. I learnt by experience that since a doctor knows more than you its better to follow him. I annoyed my medic more than once by doing something on my own and then being told how wrong I was.

Yes I think if you have to live longer you should do what doctor told you to do. My father is also like that he don't listen to us if we warn him not too eat to much because the doctor advise him. Sometimes we afraid on what his doing I think in a day he eats 6 times I had a feeling that he has diabetes. He don't want to check his sugar and he refuses to go to the doctor. I don't know what I gonna do to him and my mother also give up on telling him. His brother has a diabetes because of his lifestyle and we are afraid that if my father continues his lifestyle he going to develop diabetes.

hmm i remember i was having viral and doctor gave me medicine for 5 days.. i took i dose dat night i find mysefl quite good next morning so i just take another dose in the morning.. after then..i thought m completrly fine so ignored next doses.. a week later again i caught by serious viral.. n i also told dis to doctor..he told me dat in order to remove ur illness from root... u must take medicine properly and on time..as its a course n u hv to do it for ur health.. but still i sed to make mistakes..i forgot to take medicines..

well for me sometimes i don't follow the doctor's order.. for an instance, the doctor told me to take a medicine before i go to bed but there are times that i don't take it.. and there are foods that the doctor prohibits me to eat like chicken, and egg.. but when i smell the fried chicken, i can't resist it.. i just go and eat it up.. but only a few.. haha..

I think, If u want him to follow doctor's order then be a bit strict to him. N i too think it's a waste of time visiting to doctor if someone dosn't follows doctor's advice.

hey, i serously dont think that its a waist of tim visiting the doc evn if ur husband dont abide by his rules.because we cant say that whos gonna change how , where, or when isnt it. but sill i personally feel that u should encourage him to follow the guidelines provided by the doctor.. one suggestion i can give u to bring ur man on the right track. wat u will have to do is tat u just note down the time and all the stuff he consumes in the whole day, dont leave even a single thingy,.do this for a week. and the next week take that note of urs to the doctor along with him, im really sure after reading that , docs gonna listen to u pretty well. bye, best of luck!!!!!!!

it is a complex problem maybe your husband didn't want to violate the doctor' advice but he can't hlep himself before food you should get a method to solve this instead giving up

I know when you take his food away he turns into a grizzly bear..lol but yeah I do think that it is a waste of every ones time, yours since you go with him to all his appointments, the babysitters you have to get,the doctors,and a waste of money. He is set in his ways and he won't change unless the doctor sets him straight about it but she won't listen to anyone. Yeah he eats but eating 3 and 4 times the amounts he is supposed to isn't healthy or helping him. I guess just give in and tell him his life is his own and that he can make his own way. If he isn't going to help himself get better.. you aren't going to help him kill himself by eating junk he isn't allowed to have. Just don't buy it so if the doctor ask he is all on his own..He will have himself to answer to, the doctor and god.

I do think it is a waste of time to visit the doctor if you arent going to take their advice. It is a waste of your time and a waste of the doctor's time! My father-in-law does this all of the time and I will never understand why. I am thankful that my doctor is one of my best friends. I have known her since middle school. Because we have such a good friendship, it makes it easy to talk to her about any issues that come up. This way we are able to work something out that will actually work for me. She is an awesome doctor. She does that for all of her patients. I dont think all doctors do that. So maybe it is just finding the right doctor so that your husband is able to do better at least.