HELP! Endocrinologist has abandoned me!

I am scheduled for surgery tomorrow and having second thoughts. I am a Type I Diabetic and on a pump. Last week, I sent my endo an email asking for post-operative guidelines for my blood sugars. Essentially she has left it up to the surgeon to handle everything. SERIOUSLY? So now I am on my own on this. Not giving me such a comforting feeling. I am going to ask my surgeon if its possible to order an endo consult after my surgery while in the hospital. I have been diabetic for over 30 years and have never had surgery, this is scaring the daylights out of me!

Has anyone Type I or II had to deal with a situation like this? If so how did you handle it?

I don't have an answer for you other than find another Endo doc, but wanted to see how your surgery went and if there was some resolution to your problem.  Hope you are doing well. 

I'm type 1 and was on the pump pre and post op. I decreased my basal rate considerably, and also had set patterns set up on my pump so that I could go to that. I eventually went from running about 70 units of basal down to 25 while in the hospital. Crazy - everyone is different. Have a notebook with percentages already written down so you have it set say 20, 40 or 60 less. I didn't have an endo at the time - internal med doctor, and we had already set up this before hand. But mostly I dealt with my sugars the entire time. Having that notebook was great, because sometimes i was just to sleepy to care about much of anything.

Sorry this is late getting to you, hope it all worked out ok.

I hope your surgery went well. I too am a type 1 diabetic and had a RNY on June 1st, 2011. I'm also on the insulin pump (saved my life!!). We know our bodies better than doctors do. Even if your endo gave you guidelines, you would have to adjust accordingly. In fact, while in the hospital, I was having highs and just asked the nurse if I could adjust my insulin myself. It took the whole first day to get it down, but I know more about the pump than they did!! Trust yourself. It is scary. My endo didn't even come to see me in the hospital. And if he would have, I had everything under control...lol

My Endo (T2DM) wasn't supportive of my having VSG, but after a couple years of research and consideration, I did it anyway. I'm 3 weeks out, sugars run 80-120 w/o any meds. I'm just following the eating plan to a T and in fact, find it hard sometimes to eat all I know I should. I'm a mom (4kids) & a critical care nurse and after years and years of taking care of everyone but me, I decided it was time to do the healthful thing for myself & have VSG. I'll never look back; it was the best decision for me
Good luck!!