I have become somewhat fast friends with someone who is a type 1 diabetic (I am type 2).
He keeps on being hospitalised because of hypos, BM as low as 1.2 mmol/l. This has happened a number of times recently, and even after eating enough food for 8 or 9 people (7 sandwiches, 6 packages of crisps, a 1l bottle of lucozade, etc...), his BM only comes up to 10.8. That is after glucagon and 4 glucotabs.
If I ate even one of those sandwiches my sugars would go up to 10 for a long time. So my knowledge is somewhat limited here.
The hospitals treat the hypos and as soon as they calm down again (it has taken 13 days so far this time to get to this point), they discharge him, only for him to come in within 72 hours with exactly the same issue.
The doctors seem to be just treating to symptoms and not the cause. He is a young father of equally young children (two children, both under 2) and is scared of being left alone with his children now, because of this.
Is there anything he should be doing or asking the doctors?
He simply cannot afford to eat £40/50 worth of food every day just to stay normal, and also he is constantly eating, so there would be no time for him to go to work or anything else.
When he does go down, he gets no side effects at all, and then everything seems to hit him in around 40 seconds. The sweating, headache, blurred vision, tiredness, etc... he also doesn’t remember some of the episodes.
Do you lovely people have any advice?
He keeps on being hospitalised because of hypos, BM as low as 1.2 mmol/l. This has happened a number of times recently, and even after eating enough food for 8 or 9 people (7 sandwiches, 6 packages of crisps, a 1l bottle of lucozade, etc...), his BM only comes up to 10.8. That is after glucagon and 4 glucotabs.
If I ate even one of those sandwiches my sugars would go up to 10 for a long time. So my knowledge is somewhat limited here.
The hospitals treat the hypos and as soon as they calm down again (it has taken 13 days so far this time to get to this point), they discharge him, only for him to come in within 72 hours with exactly the same issue.
The doctors seem to be just treating to symptoms and not the cause. He is a young father of equally young children (two children, both under 2) and is scared of being left alone with his children now, because of this.
Is there anything he should be doing or asking the doctors?
He simply cannot afford to eat £40/50 worth of food every day just to stay normal, and also he is constantly eating, so there would be no time for him to go to work or anything else.
When he does go down, he gets no side effects at all, and then everything seems to hit him in around 40 seconds. The sweating, headache, blurred vision, tiredness, etc... he also doesn’t remember some of the episodes.
Do you lovely people have any advice?