Help Please - Diabetes Message Board

dayna5 · 05-30-2002, 08:15 AM

Hello,

I am writing in need of help for my aunt who is insulin dependent diabetic. You are taking insulin, Lantus 27mg once a day, pm, prandin 4mg am, noon 2mg, dinner, 2mg, glucophage xr 500mg tablets, 2 pills am, 1 noon, 1 pm.

She is visiting me from Maine. Whenever she comes to my house she is able to control her diabetes. At home, even with meds, sugar is usually between 220-400. Within the last couple of days she has had her sugar down to 80-120. That is great except when she wakes up, around 8AM her sugar has been dropping lower and lower, 59 hitting lowest.

Now she is so used to her sugar being high, that is when she feels good. When her sugar is regualated, she feels crappy. When she gets her sugar level controlled and she starts feeling really crappy she just wants to bring her sugar back. Does anyone have any ideas? She is eating correctly here where at home she is not. Please help me help her, i don't want her to want to bring her sugar back up to 280 because that is where she feels the best. This has been long going, many years, and she lives in maine, so i am not sure (not to offend anyone, but she way lives in the boonies, so I am not sure how great her doctor is) She has all the faith in him, but the way I think (being a non-diabetic) that after all these many many years, they should have figured out how to control this monster.

Any help will be appreciated, whether it be eating a cracker, or something so trivial, you never know what we don't know.

Thank you in the premature hopes that I get answers, and thanks for reading.

dayna

WallSal55 · 05-30-2002, 11:06 AM

My mother is on insulin, all I know is that the doctor
changes her insulin dosage, or the amount of food she
is to eat. But my mom has regular checkups, and a staff of nurses she can call. My mom is 73, and recently has said he blood sugar can go as low as 59.
I got on her right away to call the doc, go see him,
maybe it was time for an adjustment in diet, dosage.
My mom lives 20 miles away from her doc. If your aunt is alone, she may not care what she eats. I have days when that mood strikes--I just don't care. But I do have family that comes in the door at the end of the day, so I am not totally isolated! Their presence
in my life gets me back in line.--I want some grandkids
to enjoy so I better take the best possible care of myself! Perhaps she can meet others with diabetes in
her area?

dayna5 · 05-30-2002, 12:23 PM

Thank you for your quick reply. I think I figured out the problem. I think.....while she is at home, she is eating really not healthy foods. (they have little money, so eating correctly is expensive, no excuses, just true) Her doctor adjusted her meds to her sugar levels in maine, where she was eating wrong, she is now eating right, but is keeping her meds at same level as in Maine. Wouldn't it make sense that would be the cause of the dropping of the sugar. She probably is "over-insulined", lol....not sure if that's a word. I just suggested to her that she go back to 25 of insulin as to the 27 the doctor just increased. If i am way off base, let me know cuz i am not diabetic and i don't want to hurt her.

I agree with the support system of Maine other diabetics but she is so far away from civilization that the closest store is like 20 minutes away. (and to think i'm think of moving there, lol)

I think, since she does so well here, other than the dropping of sugar in the am, she should move here...so if ya'll pray...pray for her level's and maybe a little selfish prayer for me to have her come to stay with me so i can take care of her.

Thanks a bunch, still any suggestions greatly appreciated,
dayna

putertech · 05-30-2002, 01:07 PM

Does your Aunt take her Lantus at night? I did when I first started taking it and always had lows in the morning. I started taking it in the morning and things improved quite a bit.

dayna5 · 06-14-2002, 05:09 PM

My Aunty is back and still looking for advice to keep her sugar stablized. I gave her all suggestions, and she really appreciates everything. I already told her that if her sugar is down to sixty again, she is going to the hospital.

thanks again,

dayna