Comments on: New here, looking for support! (sorry long)

By: kathrine200

kathrine200 — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:40:14 +0000

Ask your DR to write you a prescription for a glucose emergency kit, its quite a big needle, but there if it’s needed. If you need to email me back and I can give you more information on it. I have a presscription to get one every month even thought the pharmacy tells me not to stock pile, only get another one if i used one, screw them. ha

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:37:41 +0000

Thanks for responding to me Jerry!
I truly appreciate your input and your comments have raised several
issues for us. I did contact my husband’s doctor (not an
endocrinologist) about the Actos and he said that there are new
studies that are combining the use of Actos with insulin for type 1
diabetics for better control. I am still very concerned and I really
do want him to see a specialist. We will work on that.
And, we are getting a prescription for the glucagon injection kit!
Thanks again SO much. It is so wonderful to find people out there who
want to help! :0)
Andrea

By: Denise Elayne

Denise Elayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:13:55 +0000

That is really weird. Actose is almost never given to type 1
diabetics. You’ll see that as soon as you start doing some research
on it, it will often be referred to as a drug for type 2 diabetics.
It could definitely cause the low blood sugars you are suddenly
seeing. Is your husband seeing an endocrinologist? Do you trust his
doctor?
Does the doctor know what’s going on?
You should have a glucagon injection kit in the fridge at all times.
You’ll need a prescription to buy it, and you should have a nurse or
doctor explain how to use it. Your husband’s doctor should already
have taken care of this.
I’m not a doctor, not in medicine in any way. I’m just another type 1
diabetic. I would advise your husband to consider seeing another
doctor immediately.
If the doctor who prescribed the Actose is not an endocrinologist,

your husband should insist on being referred to a specialist.
Jerry