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Hello All,
I am a Type 1 Diabetic - Insulin Independent. My frustration doesn’t lie within myself but with my partner, who is actually Type 2 Diabetic.
He has been Diabetic for 5/6years and to this date still cannot get his HBA1C to come down. He is 33yrs old, vegetarian and lives a pretty active lifestyle, which confuses the hell out of me, as his sugar levels are amazing and are constantly in the one figure stage. We have tired everything like changing his meter, dieticians, GP appointments, I think one year we changed doctors almost 5 times, as the doctors kept giving his slow releasing insulin. Furthermore we finally stayed with a doctor who seemed to WANT to help sort out his issues, however they have now put him on a fast reacting insulin which are now Apidra and Lantus and still nothing is happening? He is also on metaformin and the current nurse has sent him to a dietician, which still hasn’t done anything to help his situation. His insulin seems to working and he claims that it is, however sometimes on lazy days it will react very slow.
Recently he has been experiencing severe chest pains and had to be taken to hospital; after everything was completed such as tests and cardiovascular tests, his heart is perfectly normal. Being Diabetic myself I know that I can’t diagnose him, yet he is feeling more lethargic more and more everyday. I’ve done research stating that poor HBA1C can lead to this type of chronic complications, yet we still can’t get his HBA1C to come down. I am so fed up of tying to go to the doctors to sort it out, as I feel no one is helping him and getting to the bottom of this?
Thank you for reading and if anyone can think of anything that we have missed, please do not hesitate to reply.
I am a Type 1 Diabetic - Insulin Independent. My frustration doesn’t lie within myself but with my partner, who is actually Type 2 Diabetic.
He has been Diabetic for 5/6years and to this date still cannot get his HBA1C to come down. He is 33yrs old, vegetarian and lives a pretty active lifestyle, which confuses the hell out of me, as his sugar levels are amazing and are constantly in the one figure stage. We have tired everything like changing his meter, dieticians, GP appointments, I think one year we changed doctors almost 5 times, as the doctors kept giving his slow releasing insulin. Furthermore we finally stayed with a doctor who seemed to WANT to help sort out his issues, however they have now put him on a fast reacting insulin which are now Apidra and Lantus and still nothing is happening? He is also on metaformin and the current nurse has sent him to a dietician, which still hasn’t done anything to help his situation. His insulin seems to working and he claims that it is, however sometimes on lazy days it will react very slow.
Recently he has been experiencing severe chest pains and had to be taken to hospital; after everything was completed such as tests and cardiovascular tests, his heart is perfectly normal. Being Diabetic myself I know that I can’t diagnose him, yet he is feeling more lethargic more and more everyday. I’ve done research stating that poor HBA1C can lead to this type of chronic complications, yet we still can’t get his HBA1C to come down. I am so fed up of tying to go to the doctors to sort it out, as I feel no one is helping him and getting to the bottom of this?
Thank you for reading and if anyone can think of anything that we have missed, please do not hesitate to reply.