Hi everyone!
Well my husband was diagnosed with type 2 quiet a few years ago now but to be honest we have never taken it as seriously as we should have and more or less carried on as normal
He hates going to the doctors and the nurse talks to everyone like they are little naughty kids so I think It put him in a negative frame of mind from the word go!
Anyway, he has much more faith in listening to people who are actually going through it themselves and reads the forum
He has never had low blood sugar...it is ALWAYS too high!
He is on 2000mg Metaforim a day aswell as actos, ramiprill and simvastatin.
Here is the bit that confuses us both.......
When he first went to the doctors the nurse said "you need to try to take the metaforim 12 hours apart...morning and evening"
Well my husband is not a morning person and get's up between 10-11am and cannot stomache breakfast...but he stays up very late at night working on the pc.
Well because of the 12 hours apart thing the tablets have always been had 2 around midday and 2 late at night (midnight-ish) so never with food basically! :|
He has been back for another checkup and she has now said to him (after me mentioning the times of the metaformin) "well i would NEVER have said 12 hours apart...you should have them with food!" :roll:
So she suggested to have 1 (500mg) in the morning, 2 with tea and 1 at night (as he's up so late and sometimes has snack)
He also has now (this week) been given 80mg gliclazide as his bloods are up from last time...anyway he has been feeling unwell the last few days with stomache ache and headaches and also occassional dizziness with the new tablet (which he has had a tea-time) so after reading the forum he has decided to try it in the morning instead. His bood sugar yesterday dropped from 10 down to 6 within an hour after the gliclazide so it is working as he was always on 10-12 before! :shock:
I made a smoothie (orange juice, yoghurt, banana & strawberrys) so that it may hopefully be an alternative to breakfast (which he wont eat).
I am also going to try to get him to have a sandwich around lunchtime..then tea as normal.
I feel like a useless wife as I don't know what I'm doing :cry:
I am going to stay on the forum and learn more and help as much as I can to make him feel better...it's just so hard because he will go all day with no food then have a small tea and a piece of toast if he feels 'yucky' (his words! lol)
So....any help/advice about when in the day to take the meds and if the smoothis is ok for breakfast would be great thanks
Summary:
Get's up 10-11am, bed 2-4am!!! Struggles breakfast (smoothie ok), I will force feed lunch if needed, tea ok....
Meds:
2000mg Metaformin
80mg Gliclazide
30mg Actos (Pioglitazone?)
10mg Ramipril
10 mg Simvastatin
Well my husband was diagnosed with type 2 quiet a few years ago now but to be honest we have never taken it as seriously as we should have and more or less carried on as normal
He hates going to the doctors and the nurse talks to everyone like they are little naughty kids so I think It put him in a negative frame of mind from the word go!
Anyway, he has much more faith in listening to people who are actually going through it themselves and reads the forum
He has never had low blood sugar...it is ALWAYS too high!
He is on 2000mg Metaforim a day aswell as actos, ramiprill and simvastatin.
Here is the bit that confuses us both.......
When he first went to the doctors the nurse said "you need to try to take the metaforim 12 hours apart...morning and evening"
Well my husband is not a morning person and get's up between 10-11am and cannot stomache breakfast...but he stays up very late at night working on the pc.
Well because of the 12 hours apart thing the tablets have always been had 2 around midday and 2 late at night (midnight-ish) so never with food basically! :|
He has been back for another checkup and she has now said to him (after me mentioning the times of the metaformin) "well i would NEVER have said 12 hours apart...you should have them with food!" :roll:
So she suggested to have 1 (500mg) in the morning, 2 with tea and 1 at night (as he's up so late and sometimes has snack)
He also has now (this week) been given 80mg gliclazide as his bloods are up from last time...anyway he has been feeling unwell the last few days with stomache ache and headaches and also occassional dizziness with the new tablet (which he has had a tea-time) so after reading the forum he has decided to try it in the morning instead. His bood sugar yesterday dropped from 10 down to 6 within an hour after the gliclazide so it is working as he was always on 10-12 before! :shock:
I made a smoothie (orange juice, yoghurt, banana & strawberrys) so that it may hopefully be an alternative to breakfast (which he wont eat).
I am also going to try to get him to have a sandwich around lunchtime..then tea as normal.
I feel like a useless wife as I don't know what I'm doing :cry:
I am going to stay on the forum and learn more and help as much as I can to make him feel better...it's just so hard because he will go all day with no food then have a small tea and a piece of toast if he feels 'yucky' (his words! lol)
So....any help/advice about when in the day to take the meds and if the smoothis is ok for breakfast would be great thanks
Summary:
Get's up 10-11am, bed 2-4am!!! Struggles breakfast (smoothie ok), I will force feed lunch if needed, tea ok....
Meds:
2000mg Metaformin
80mg Gliclazide
30mg Actos (Pioglitazone?)
10mg Ramipril
10 mg Simvastatin
You seem to be doing well looking after your husband in spite of the fact he's not making it easy. The Metformin could well be giving him stomach ache. He should take it when he eats even if it isn't exactly 12 hours between doses. Just do the best you can. To help lower his blood levels he needs to reduce the carbs he eats so should cut right down on bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, starchy root veg and flour based products as these will convert to glucose and raise his blood levels. Bananas are also not very good for him.