As the title says, my husband was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes today. He is 36, but his uncle had adult onset type 1 in his 30s so apparently this runs in his family. We have been seeing strange symptoms for years but never put it together- frequent urination, extreme weight loss, swollen and red feet with some skin changes (this last one only happened in the last few months and is why I finally convinced him to go to the doctor). They did blood work and his fasting blood sugar was 394 this morning. I can't remember what the A1C was. My husband is very anti-doctor so all these tests and multiple doctor appointments in the span of 2 weeks has been really hard for him, and the diagnosis was really unexpected and he's going to take some time to adjust and understand what he needs to do. He's a brilliant and highly educated person so it's not that he's stupid, but as his mom told me today he's a "medical moron."
To start out, they (the GP we see) put him on the once daily Tresiba injection pen. This puzzled me a little bit because I didn't think that was sufficient for type 1, but I don't really know anything at this point (that's why I'm posting). It may well be that we see it doesn't do enough and he needs to switch to multiple time a day injections. The doctor gave him an injection at 11am and his blood sugar was at 270 before dinner tonight. Hopefully it gets better tomorrow.
So that's the background. Assume I know absolutely nothing about this yet, because that's pretty near the truth. I would greatly appreciate any tips or advice you might have for both supporting someone who has this disease and for the person with diabetes himself. My husband isn't a redditor but I will pass everything along. At this point, I'm helping him with the testing and injections because he's a bit afraid of the whole process. And I'm scared too. I need him to be around for me, and for our future children. I need him to take care of himself, and I want to help and coach him in any way I can and that's appropriate. Thank you for letting me into your community.
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