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Think I am being lied to by a family member !

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Fallenover09

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Hey, this is going to sound weird, but I am sure that a member of my husbands family (his stepmom) is lying to everyone about her diabetes. Basically, she was diagnosed with type 2 about 18 month - 2 years ago, and since then she tells everyone that her sugars run at about 40 all of the time. She had a 'major' hypo yesterday and her BG were 19. I have had type one for over 12 years now, I know what happens to the body when you have high sugars (I stupidly stopped using insulin for 5/6 months when I was a teenager, and very nearly died) but she is showing none of the signs. Does type 2 work differently at all, in regards to high prolonged BG levels? She is a bit over weight, hasn't lost any weight at all, doesn't seem to be going blind, or having kidney issues, I know when I was stupid I lost quite a lot of brain functions, falling asleep all the time, not being able to concentrate, things like that...but this woman has done those things ever since I met her 4/5 years ago. Also my blood monitor doesn't have readings that go that high, if its above 34 I think it just comes up with 'HI' and she claims to have readings of 75 sometimes, are there any monitors out there that have readings that high? She also claims the doctors can't help as her body doesn't absorb insulin, so even if she injected (which she doesn't) her blood sugar readings wouldn't change. Now everything I know about diabetes, is telling me she should be dead after this long, or at very least near death in hospital, but she isn't. When she said she had the hypo yesterday, I asked her what signs did she have, how did she know she was having a hypo? And she said all the same things I have when having a hypo, numb face, tingle fingers, room moving, irritable, all that stuff. If she is lying like a few of us believe, what I don't understand if why she would research hypos, but be so over what could be possible for high sugars...so I can't find anything online, that any of what she says is true, so thought I would ask you. I would like to believe her, but I'm sure it's not possible. Thank you :)
 
You are talking mmol/l she is probably talking mmol/mol
the convertor on this site gives 40 mmol/mol = 6.7mmol/l
 
So what would 19 be? She lives in the same city as me, so under the same nhs guidelines. Everyone I know here who has diabetes all use mmol/l same as me. Surely she would be on the same??
 
Thank you, I think I will ask which meter she is using. When she talks about it, she says her sugars are really high, like she can't function high. Thank you for that though :)
 
For a meter I would have thought the US mg/dl would be more likely but her figures correspond to mmol/mol which is used for the HbA1c.

I don't see any reason not to believe her, it's probably just a confusion over units.
The meter should give the units in the display.
There might be different versions of the same meter or it might be possible to change the units so just the make might not help.
 
Yes I think you're right, you have been very helpful, to be honest I didn't even think of units, I think I thought of everything except that! Thank you again
 
I don't believe that there is such a thing as a meter that measures in mmol/mol which is used the unit used for HbA1c not capillary blood testing.

Blood glucose meters measure either mg/dl or mmol/l. Those on sale at the moment are not able to change between units. Some meters produced before about 2005 could be changed and this caused problems when people didn't realise what unit they were using.

The readings she gives are impossible on a mmol/l meter, as you say they don't read that high.
The readings you give would in mg/dl be very low.
40mg/dl = 2.22mmol/l
19mg/dl =1.05 mmol/l (does a meter actually get that low before it says 'lo' ?)
75/mg/dl= 4.1mmol/l

Sorry, I think that she's very muddled to say the least.
 
Athought crossed my mind that no adult is obliged to tell anyone what her medical condition is, even if it would be wise.
You have to let her guide any discussions on the subject.
Hana
 
Hopefully this is just a unit misunderstanding but if not, who cares ! Why should she tell anyone her true readings ? If you think she is not telling the truth, just ignore her. Liars often give up when no response is received.
 
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