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Alex - Interview 07  

Alex - Interview 07

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background: No personal details given.
Brief outline:Alex was diagnosed with diabetes three years' ago. He is currently taking metformin and gliclazide.

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Alex prefers to know what is happening to him and keep his diabetes under control and checks his blood glucose twice a day.

 



I'm more aware of what I'm doing. And I do find that if I do more exercise than walking, it does bring it down, I don't know if there's any sort of factor there that says that's what should happen or not but it does to me. Anything physical and it will reduce it, well that's what happens. So to me it's a good thing that I'm in control of it, and it's not sitting about waiting and wondering if there's something wrong. I know twice a day if it's in control, and it has been for the last month.

Do you feel it's better this way that you actually can see what your blood sugar level?

Yeah.

Compared to how it was?

There's been a couple of occasions like yeah... It wasn't totally under control I can relate back to Boxing Day when I was at my daughter's house for the Boxing Day dinner, and that was [I] just probably over-indulged in the wrong things and I don't mean alcohol, I mean sweets and desserts etcetera. And it shot off the scale, it was away back up at high twenties just for one meal, but again it dropped back down within 24 hours again. So you learn then in the early stages that doing the wrong thing can affect it, which long-term will have an effect. So I prefer not to do that now, and try and keep it in check.
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