Just a quick bit of back history before I get into everything. I have been a T1 for 21 years, my husband (whom I've been with 13 years), was diagnosed with T2 about 3 years ago when he got a job that have him health insurance. I had been noticing the signs of diabetes, weight loss, mass consumption of liquids..etc.
He was put on metformin and Lantus (37u) a day. His insurance wasn't great, so one bottle of lantus was $180, and test strips were a few hundred as well. THANKFULLY, I take just enough lantus to warrant needing 3 bottles a month (like I use 2 bottles plus maybe 20 units a month), as such, I have a surplus and so his lantus needs are taken care of. I also get test strips to check up to 6 times a day, but usually only need 4 checks a day, so his test strips are taken care of. The metformin is about $20 a month without insurance (last August he last his job with insurance and the place he works now is a small business and diesnt have to give insurance to employees, and he doesn't make enough to pay for insurance).
Okay so the real issue here is I'm really worried about him. He says he feels crappy all the time, he looks pretty bad, says he's always tired. I usually say "have you checked your sugar, sounds like it might be high?". He always says he checked it and it's fine, but won't tell me a number or range. I've been extra worried the last week because he seems worse. Tonight I decided to take a quick perk at his meter. Which, I really didn't want to do because I always hated when I was a tern and my mother would look at mine. Now, I totally understand skipping a check here or there but his last entry was in NOVEMBER!!!
I want to confront him so I can help him before it gets out of control and he ends up in the hospital. (He's been eating a lot lately and it's all garbage food. He had 4 Klondike bars today...) I'm so worried about losing him and it seems like he doesn't care. I have given him small doses of humalog before when his blood sugar was high, in the mid 300's and he complained of feeling bad. And I made him drink lots of water in case of ketones. He's even for a 4 week supply of Trulicity that I have gotten him from our doctor (she prescribed it for him on the last visit he went to). I got him to take one dose of it like 2 months ago and I could tell he felt better.
What should I say to him to get him to take his diabetes more seriously? I'm really worried about him. I haven't even seen him take his lantus in a while... he may still be taking it, but I'm not sure. I feel like I need to at least get him to check his blood sugar so I can know what it is, then get him to take the shit of Trulicity. Unless his sugar is crazy high.. then I'm not sure how is convince him to go to the hospital.
please advise, especially if you are a T2 that has been non complaint in the past. Thanks, sorry for the wall of text.
UPDATE: I talked with him. I asked him if he could please check his blood sugar right now for me. It was 286. He had stopped taking his lantus about a month ago. I asked him at the very least to please take his lantus everyday. I said I know injections suck, but I don't want him screwing up his kidneys or eyes, etc.
I have retinopathy myself and I don't want him to go through anything like that. I cried talking to him. I asked him to please at least check his blood sugar a few times a week if he can't commit to 2-3 times, or even once a day right now. Some check is better than nothing. I asked him to do it for me if he didn't want to do it for himself because I love him and don't want to lose him.
It went well. I asked him things and told him why I wanted him to do those things. It was all very calm and he said he would take the lantus and work on checking his blood sugar more. So I feel better, for now at least... hopefully he follows through, but I think he will.
Thanks for all the input everyone!
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