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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
My 77 year old mother-in-law was diagnosed with Type 2 last autumn and has been to a DESMOND training where she was given a glucometer. She is meant to take Metformin 500 with her evening meal but regularly "forgets". We were visiting on Monday evening and she asked me to show her how to use the glucometer as she had never taken it out of the box since getting it in December (I've been Type1 for 23years and cannot fathom her reluctance). Once I'd talked her through how to test she eventually got a reading. Of 13.3mmols. I was horrified! She then said she hadn't taken her Metformin because she'd forgotten it before her meal and was told "not to bother taking it" if she missed a tablet until the next occasion, is the following evening. I told her to take tablet immediately and drink plenty of water and have warned her that if she doesn't start complying she will certainly have her tablet dose increased and may end up on insulin.
Since diagnosis she has ??stopped taking sugar in tea and ??reduced the amount of cake, biscuits, desserts, jam eaten although anytime I see her she's eating these foods with the words "Well I know I shouldn't but one won't hurt" or "I'll be good tomorrow".
What advice can I give her and how do I give it? I know how Type 1 an insulin work because I've spent more of my life living according to BMs than I did without. I got her the 100 things I Wish I'd Known About Diabetes booklet but I am losing the will to live with her recalcitrance. Please help
Since diagnosis she has ??stopped taking sugar in tea and ??reduced the amount of cake, biscuits, desserts, jam eaten although anytime I see her she's eating these foods with the words "Well I know I shouldn't but one won't hurt" or "I'll be good tomorrow".
What advice can I give her and how do I give it? I know how Type 1 an insulin work because I've spent more of my life living according to BMs than I did without. I got her the 100 things I Wish I'd Known About Diabetes booklet but I am losing the will to live with her recalcitrance. Please help