Dr. Ajay Mani Tiwari: Meet the doctor who repaired me once, and again promising to bring me to normalcy from an extremely threatening diabetic condition

It was a chance encounter with a young media friend on a WhatsApp group that connected me, a highly diabetic patient with a doctor who became my saviour – and at just Rs 700 per consultation fee, and conversations over the phone was all it took Dr Ajay Mani Tiwari of Gwalior to repair me and bring me to normalcy.
I had been having diabetes since I was in my mid-forties, but it was only at @62 that I became serious about it as I had to get a dental procedure done at a government hospital in Delhi. The doctors at the government dental hospital refused to even take a look at me unless I brought my sugar levels under control. I needed completely new dentures that sit on implants as my originals (whatever was left of them, that is) were useless.

Besides, experiencing pain now and then to deal with. The fall I had in the bathroom smashed a few of my decayed teeth and there were gaping holes, and I forgot how to smile. Unable to present myself to anyone, and even to me, I went to the government dental university in Delhi for total extraction and implants, and dentures.
The moment they noticed I was 60 plus, and the routine question Are you diabetic, and out came the truth. Return after your sugar levels are normal and come back with reports was the firm but polite advice to me. All nervous and tense, I went about in search of a good doctor to repair me, and went to my trusted WhatsApp group comprising media colleagues from across India.
“Yes my father is a doctor and his specialisation is diabetes,” said Ashish Mani Tiwari, a colleague from the media world even as he passed on the name and number of his father Ajay Mani, who became my saviour as he brought me back to normalcy within just about a month and a half of medicines and diet control and excercies — well only brisk walking and that too I did within the confines of my flat.
And soon, my sugar level was normal, and I had my dental procedures, and today the costliest things I wear are my artificial dentures that sit on 12 implants — the surgery involved for the extraction and installation of a new dentures set was possible only because I became normal when it came to sugar levels.

All would have been normal, and the story would have been “And I lived happily ever after, narry a trouble,” but for circumstances out of my control —had a heavy touring job, a life-changing near fatal accident of my brother-in-law, that again needed our presence and travelling here and there, plus work pressure, and also having no work and earning pressure too all combined to force me to stop taking medicines some two years ago.
And one month ago, to this date, I got the scare of my life, when I had a problem in one of my eyes — vision blurring, which I immediately got checked up to discover a cataract developing and one that needed an operation in October. But then, since sugar levels were abnormally high, and also along with other complications, weight loss, I was prepared for a severe dressing down from the doctor. Which he did, admirably well, and said that he was not taking any chances and that I was free to consult another doctor as well, enough to indicate that he was not willing to take a bet on me.
Serves me right I told myself, but resolved firmly that come what may I will do everything the good doctor Mittal would tell me to do — even jump in a lake if he told me to – as I had firm belief in him and his prowess as a doctor, and more important as a good human being – a rarity in these days when even the noble profession of medicine has become a business and a fleecing one at that.
“Any other doctor would have put you on insulin, but I am not doing so. Only medication, diet control, and exercises,” should do the trick he said, but all the while rebuking me for doing what I had done — neglecting health and discontinuing taking medicines.”
But now, older and wiser, and one who is suffering and having a scare of a lifetime, I am fully in tune with whatTiwari saab says, and if the first month before treatment my parameters were very high and at dangerous levels – sugar, cholesterol, creatin levels and other parameters, within one month the reports of all tests – though still high — were reduced by half – indicating the fact that I could be on the recovery path again.

And the best thing is – so far I have only paid for three consultation sessions only – and am on the road to recovery. Within just ten days, I began feeling more energetic and feeling good on the inside.
Maybe because of the medicines, or maybe it is the overall approach and treatment of Dr Tiwari, that the impact on me is positive.
Doctors like him are difficult to find who genuinely want to give affordable treatment to as many people as possible — at a time when the medical profession is peopled by fleecers and fraud masquerading as medical specialists. A god fearing person, Dr Tiwari is a good singer too, and a great conversationalist, who can hold forth on any topic and discussions with him promise to be engaging, interesting and useful.
Whether it is national politics, religion, spirituality, or astrology, Dr Tiwaril is that one person you wish you had access to – but like all good people, he too has his ups and downs. Professionally, the work he does gives him a lot of satisfaction of serving as many people as possible. And the list of patients he had cured and put them back on rails is long and numbers infinite, in his nearly three decades of medical practice.
A man of letters, this good doctor is also a musician, plays the guitar, and is a singer, especially fond of old Hindi film songs. He has perhaps a song for every occasion. Only he needs a good trigger, a good conversation to get him going.
For sure, a good doctor to have on your side, for the medicinal drugs, and more importantly, for giving you the treatment for the soul.