Reactionary insulin injection following carb count at meal times.
Some of the issues come from accurately accounting for the carb/sugar levels in his meals,
some of the problems come from the delivery of the appropriate level of insulin (thinking he has done it and not, or thinking he hasn't done it and taking it again!)
He has been on so many different "regimes" over the last 35-40 years I am looking to find a way of removing the "operator error" from his current regime. Not sure a pump is the way forward for him but am open to suggestions
I am also not convinced he is responding to the insulin he is taking, either through a combination of spiking sugar from slower release foods or alcohol which seems to throw all predictions out.
I have just acquired a NovoPen Echo for him to solve one of the above issues.
I am also looking for a Glucagon delivery system that removes some of the stage of drug prep prior to injection as my mother is often to freaked out to calmly manage the process as is.
What irritates me is the consultants that he has seen over the years do not account for individuals either in their levels or the way they react to diet and or insulin administration, they all seem to try and solve any problem by trying to get him to diet to get his BMI down!
He is 6'1" and built like a bull, trying to get him to a target weight of an "average person" when he is in his 80's is pointless.
No do they accept that he is of an age where chucking technology at the person to solve a process issue doesn't help (he struggles with his mobile phone messages so a bluetooth monitoring system is not an option!!)
thanks