Hello., I am the son of an 86 -year -old person with type 1 diabetes for more than 20 years.
After a long time, I have decided to contact other people in search of a help that I hardly find in doctors.
My father's main problem is undoubtedly obsession, rather than diabetes.He has become his life, his only "distraction."It does nothing but continuously control (never less than 3 and usually 5 or up to 8 times a day), see that it has it low, eat, see it high, start walking through the hall of the house for hours for hours, measure yourself, eat, ...
But once this is clarified, there is a more physiological issue that escapes me.It has been injected with 22 units of Trebisa for months (very slow action insulin) and punctually, when at noon before eating it has it above 200, 2 or 3 units of actrapid (fast -acting insulin) to compensate.It is necessary to clarify at this point that has passed through 3 hip operations and that at their age they will not put another new prosthesis and that those that have already spent.He is doing between 1 and 2 hours of walks up to date and that is taking away mobility, he is wearing him some hips that he will never be able to recover and I have recommended that he control his sugar levels from other fronts, which he cannot continue doing all thatexercise.
The point is that controlling the food and with the 22 units of Tresiba, many mornings gets up with 50. As soon as he gets up, he eats something to recover and the rest of the day moves between 100 and 180 that is very good for him.But for example, 2 days ago he had a long"Prohibited" and the exercise he did, continued with 200 in the morning.
What I want to go is that there is no way to find a balance.Do what you do, certain days, without a reason that we can explain, it has levels that deviate much from the average, all that without wanting to think the levels that will reach mid night after dinner a lot for fear of getting up with the decline.
Anyway ... we are going very badly and needed to tell somewhere in search of help beyond the endocrine that treats it like an animal and do not go beyond the numbers.My father has a tendency to shoot the levels, both up and down, without an apparent explanation for us.
Is this normal?
Thank you very much and greetings :-)