Spiker
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- Type of diabetes
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So am I right in thinking that when she had the seizure at 5am she had had no insulin since the 1u Novorapid and 1u Lantus at 1240 the previous afternoon and no regular Lantus since the 3u the night before (Friday night)??
If so this is incredibly hard to understand. I really think you need an endocrinologist on this asap. She is behaving as if she has reactive hypoglycaemia or some other disorder of a functioning pancreas. Or at very least honeymooning plus some other problems.
I think you really need professional support. This is a very unusual case with a vulnerable patient who can't manage herself and can't give proper feedback. She probably needs to be on sliding scale with IV insulin and IV glucose and hourly BG until she stabilises. That's what a hospital would do in this situation and I frankly don't see how you are going to manage it at home. You can't have repeated seizures with a person who already had brain injury. You haven't said what the original cause of the recent brain injury was, maybe it's unknown, but a severe hypo is one possible cause.
If so this is incredibly hard to understand. I really think you need an endocrinologist on this asap. She is behaving as if she has reactive hypoglycaemia or some other disorder of a functioning pancreas. Or at very least honeymooning plus some other problems.
I think you really need professional support. This is a very unusual case with a vulnerable patient who can't manage herself and can't give proper feedback. She probably needs to be on sliding scale with IV insulin and IV glucose and hourly BG until she stabilises. That's what a hospital would do in this situation and I frankly don't see how you are going to manage it at home. You can't have repeated seizures with a person who already had brain injury. You haven't said what the original cause of the recent brain injury was, maybe it's unknown, but a severe hypo is one possible cause.