Recent Content by Bob Marshall

CGM? I assume you mean Continuous Glucose Monitor. No she does not have one. She is producing insulin. She is on 4mg of Glymepiride (quite a high dose) which promotes insulin production. She only takes 8 units of insulin per day. I think she panics about low blood sugar because it is difficult...

My wife has "MODY 3", which is the most common type. Mutations to the HNF1alpha gene, responds to sulphonylurea (this includes glymepiride)

My wife is 66. She has suffered from diabetes since she was 18. She was eventually diagnosed with MODY in 2009,when she was 53 and prescribed glymepiride. Since then her health has declined (stroke in 2016, heart attack in 2019), she has put on weight and needs to take insulin in addition to the...