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Thanks, yes, I think she should be on a drip and bloods done asap.

Thank you for your reply, I will contact the GP again in the morning. The carers were given info via the GP that mum had been having what were thought to be low bloodsugar episodes, so they were giving her what they thought was helpful to raise her blood sugar before getting her up in the...

Thank for replying, my mother didn't want to go to A&E and based on previous experience of waiting outside A& E in an ambulance for an hour, then 8 hours on a trolley on a drip, then being discharged at 11pm at night - its not good for an older person. My father died a couple of months ago after...

Thanks for your reply, if it remains high then I will press for admission. I was reluctant to agree to her being assessed in A&E on the weekend, and now I'm wondering if that might have been best. they offered an emergency dr to assess her within an hour and arrange admission to a ward rather...

Hi My mum in her late 70s is Type 2, she was taken off glicazide 4 weeks ago as she was thought to be having low blood sugar episodes. She was also taken off metformin 2 weeks ago as her diabetic nurse said her bloods were good and HCA1 was borderline for requiring metformin (6.1). Within approx...