Craigyboy1969
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Morning all, not diabetic myself and I'm asking for advice on the following..
My wife was Diagnosed type 1 in 2012 and in the whole manages the condition pretty good, however the past few months she has been struggling keeping her bloods controlled through the night, often waking 3 sometimes 4 times to use the loo and then waking with a headache and blood counts first thing can be anything from 11 upto low 20,s. Yesterday we had an appointment with the diabetes consultant at the local hospital but was told upon arrival that the appointment had been cancelled earlier in the day ( great) anyway after insisting we eventually got to see a consultant who made it pretty clear from the off that medication would not be changed for the nighttime and that my wife should experiment a little by increasing the dosage of night time insulin by 2 clicks and monitor from that, my wife explained that she had done this on numerous occasions and it had resulted in lows been had,got the feeling at this point that we were wasting our time,anyway I'm sat here at work thinking as I usually do as to what I can do or try and sort out going forward as I feel that because my wife manages her type 1 pretty well that she's getting fobbed off,We have gone back to our Dr and asked to be put with a community diabetic nurse to see if we can get her treatment changed, I've even thought of contacting our local MP as 2 appointments since January this year have been cancelled last minute which to me isn't acceptable due to the diabetes been a serious condition, I've also wondered how we go on about getting her private treatment, has anyone on here gone down the private route?? Sorry if this goes a bit wayward,I'm typing this while at work on my break, which is another worry as I'm a permanent night worker and often worry about kerry while I'm here etc...
Cheers craig
My wife was Diagnosed type 1 in 2012 and in the whole manages the condition pretty good, however the past few months she has been struggling keeping her bloods controlled through the night, often waking 3 sometimes 4 times to use the loo and then waking with a headache and blood counts first thing can be anything from 11 upto low 20,s. Yesterday we had an appointment with the diabetes consultant at the local hospital but was told upon arrival that the appointment had been cancelled earlier in the day ( great) anyway after insisting we eventually got to see a consultant who made it pretty clear from the off that medication would not be changed for the nighttime and that my wife should experiment a little by increasing the dosage of night time insulin by 2 clicks and monitor from that, my wife explained that she had done this on numerous occasions and it had resulted in lows been had,got the feeling at this point that we were wasting our time,anyway I'm sat here at work thinking as I usually do as to what I can do or try and sort out going forward as I feel that because my wife manages her type 1 pretty well that she's getting fobbed off,We have gone back to our Dr and asked to be put with a community diabetic nurse to see if we can get her treatment changed, I've even thought of contacting our local MP as 2 appointments since January this year have been cancelled last minute which to me isn't acceptable due to the diabetes been a serious condition, I've also wondered how we go on about getting her private treatment, has anyone on here gone down the private route?? Sorry if this goes a bit wayward,I'm typing this while at work on my break, which is another worry as I'm a permanent night worker and often worry about kerry while I'm here etc...
Cheers craig
