Recent Content by Wendy_1964

Thank you all for your replies, they really did help. I have had a long chat with my sons Diabetes Nurse today and she supports my request for a meeting with his Psychiatrist, diabetes consultant, cardiology consultant and GP which I have sent letters requesting so we can get advice from all...

He is dosing the insulin to carbs 2.5 insulin to 10 carbs and fixed 32 lantus in the morning and 28 in the evening and 100 mgs metmorfin a day, 200 mgs sertraline, statins and daily meds which I cannot spell for tachycardia. It is his diet we need to address, due to the mental health meds he...

We have spent the evening looking at a diet plan !! It is the second time we have seen the consultant and the second time she has tried to force the treatment on him and the only explanation/information she gave has been that he has to get his weight down and BS, the usual consultant we see says...

Thank you for your advice. I have spent a while on google researching and I am not comfortable with it. I am going to speak to the diabetic nurse we usually see tomorrow and ask if we can see the consultant we usually see instead. Thank you for your advice

My son is not on an order to take Clozapine, he does take it willingly as no other antipsychotics worked and the clozapine keeps the symptoms under control. Your low carb hii fat advice is something I will follow up, thankyou for that advice. I will discuss that with his diabetic nurse tomorrow.

My son self injects with reminders frm me, his schizophrenia and depression is controlled well with meds, he was told i quote "I cannot allow this to go on and have no choice but to give you the Liraglutide" my son said he does not want it and asked for a further three months to try to lose...

My son is not under any orders and he functions well with meds. I am going to speak to his diabetic nurse tomorrow (who is lovely) and ask if we can change consultant, this is the 2nd time we have seen her and the 2nd time she has tried to force this treatment on him

He does have capacity in the legal term and is medically able to make decisions, he has mental health issues that are controlled well with meds

My son is 31 and was diagnosed 3 years ago with type 1 after DKA and a week in intensive care. Diabetes was a totally new area to us, it is thought his medication clozapine for his schizophrenia caused the DKA and type 1. It has been a hard battle for him to lower the blood sugar as the cocktail...