Concernedpartner58
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Carer/Partner
My partner doesn’t live with me but we see each other regularly. He has recently been diagnosed with Type 2 with an Hba1C of 149 which I understand is completely off the chart. He is 64 and had become rather wobbly and vague as well as tired, napping all the time. He has lost a lot of weight over the last few months without changing his diet much. He drank a lot of full sugar cola and definitely has a sweet tooth. He says he has given all that up; he drinks Coke Zero but has still eaten the odd sweet when he feels like it. The doctor did not give him a blood glucose monitor or really, according to him, details about the problems of such high blood sugar. Apparently he said he had never seen such a high reading. He put him on Metformin twice a day and a statin once a day. My daughter had gestational diabetes with her last baby and so we became familiar with finger prick testing daily and keeping blood sugars low by not over indulging in bread, pasta, rice or potatoes, plus getting a resting glucose reading. He has been really resistant to this but I finally got him to do a test two hours after I prepared a low carbohydrate dinner for him. His reading was 16.3. His resting rate was 14.7. He thinks that because he is on Metformin he can eat his I usual food and doesn’t view this as a life threatening disease. I am really concerned about these levels and don’t know what I can do to persuade him that he is not really taking this seriously. He thinks he is. He thinks that all the symptoms he has had have improved so it’s fine, he doesn’t seem to think that more damage is being done. I’d like to hear from anyone who has either had this experience or gets why he doesn’t want to do everything he can to bring the blood sugars down. Many thanks