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Wellness Lab Blood Test

Posted in Uncategorized | August 27th, 2011

wellness lab blood test
what will happen to me if sugar wont go down?

my husband has type 2 diabetes over 10 years and just has started getting treated for it the past 3 months. He got all kinds of lab and stuff and it came back high cholesterol, high blood pressure, thyroid problems and now they are testing his liver because the numbers are elevated. His sugar runs over 300 the lowest it will ever go is 230. It’s ran high like that for years they say. He’s having chest pains and he stayed in the hospital over night. they said his cardiac tests were fine. but when he was hurting they gave him nitro and it helped the pain. Do you think it is heart. and why won’t his sugar go down. I have switched him to diet pop. any suggestions or comments i would appreciate because i don’t want him to die. He doesn’t work. Just stays home watching tv. we are trying to go to the wellness center 3 times a week but we are going slow because i don’t want to over work him. thanks
he’s taking metforum another sugar pill and now he is on insulin 1 time daily. long lasting.

With the medications available today it is virtually always possible to achieve ‘goal’ glucose. The most typical medical regimen is to add in medications as follows: metformin hydrochloride up to 850 mg 3 times daily; pioglitazone (Actos) up to 45 mg daily; saxagliptin (Onglyza) up to 5 mg daily or the related sitagliptin phosphate (as sitagliptin – Januvia) up to 100 mg daily. After this basal analog insulin is added. There are 2 such forms of insulin: detemir (Levemir) and glargine (Lantus). The unanswered question when adding in basal analog insulin is what to do with the oral medications. If the above does not achieve control a bolus analog insulin is added. These include: aspart (NovoLog), apidra (Glulisine), and lispro (Humalog). With some combination of the above good glucose control is nearly always achieved. He needs to be on something to lower LDL cholesterol as the goal for a diabetic is 70 mg/dL. The blood pressure needs to be controlled. Thyroid problems are easily diagnosed and treated. Elevation in liver enzymes is often caused by visceral adiposity – a much preferred terminology as opposed to fatty infiltration of the liver – due to an elevated Body Mass Index. He clearly did not experience a myocardial infarction (heart attack) but that does not mean that he does not have coronary artery disease. This may well need to be evaluated. Sitting at home watching television is not a good option if he is able to walk 20 minutes a day. I wish you both the very best of health and happiness and in all things may God bless. JR