Anonymous Question
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- Type of diabetes
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Anonymous question submitted:
My 18 year Son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 15. We were then living in New Zealand. We have been back in the UK for 3 years now and he has no trust in his Diabetic GP or Nurse and has refused to go to the clinics for a year. I feel this is due to them telling him at some point they will have to take blood tests which scares him and they keep changing his insulin units so he is confused and dosnt know where he is with it all.
I feel the Nurse has let him down as she has not tried to resolve the issue with him. I cannot physically get him to go and have asked the nurse to have a one on one session with him and all she said was i thought he trusted me and have not heard from her since. I am worried about him as sometimes he wont eat he drinks a lot of fluids. He wets the bed at night regularly as he goes into very deep sleeps and is difficult to wake up in a morning.
He works a 40 hour week and is active. I am sure he is embarrased with the bed wetting and i have read forums which confuse me to what to do for the best and dont want to start dabbling in changing his insulin without professional advice. I feel the GPs and Nurse in this area are a wash out and they will just say needs to come and see us which i know he wont do. Any advice is gratefully accepted.
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My 18 year Son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 15. We were then living in New Zealand. We have been back in the UK for 3 years now and he has no trust in his Diabetic GP or Nurse and has refused to go to the clinics for a year. I feel this is due to them telling him at some point they will have to take blood tests which scares him and they keep changing his insulin units so he is confused and dosnt know where he is with it all.
I feel the Nurse has let him down as she has not tried to resolve the issue with him. I cannot physically get him to go and have asked the nurse to have a one on one session with him and all she said was i thought he trusted me and have not heard from her since. I am worried about him as sometimes he wont eat he drinks a lot of fluids. He wets the bed at night regularly as he goes into very deep sleeps and is difficult to wake up in a morning.
He works a 40 hour week and is active. I am sure he is embarrased with the bed wetting and i have read forums which confuse me to what to do for the best and dont want to start dabbling in changing his insulin without professional advice. I feel the GPs and Nurse in this area are a wash out and they will just say needs to come and see us which i know he wont do. Any advice is gratefully accepted.
To submit a question, please go to http://www.diabetes.co.uk/ask-an-anonymous-question.html