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Philip - Interview 02  

Philip - Interview 02

Age at Interview: 68
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 46
Background: Philip is a retired company director who is married with no children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.
Brief outline:Diagnosed at 46, Philip took metformin for 5 years and is now on insulin (NovoMix 30). He also takes amytriptyline, alloprinolol, simvastatin, bendroflurizide and atenolol.

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Philip says that remembering to test blood glucose levels at regular intervals can be difficult when he is socialising.

 



So can you tell me how taking insulin on this regular basis affects, affects your life?

It affects my life very little. The only problem is if I go out to dinner at night. And just before I eat I go into the Gents and give myself my jab. Or if I'm with friends who are not worried about it, then I'll just lift my shirt up and put a, put an injection in the side of me. Other than that it really doesn't worry me at all. I mean I'm used to doing it in the mornings before breakfast. I have to say that once or twice I have forgotten to take it in the evening. But basically I just have my insulin there on the side of my dinner, on the side of the table, and just before I eat my dinner I take another 20 units of insulin. And it's no problem at all to me.

What about testing your blood glucose levels? How do you find that?

Then again, in the mornings it's fine, at lunchtime it's fine. It depends what I'm doing in the late afternoons. It also, depending, it depends where I've been at night whether or not I actually remember to do it before I go to bed.

One of the things I stopped doing a year ago is drinking as much as I used to. I mean being a rugby player, you, your whole life revolves around beer and partying, and I must admit until fairly recently I used to drink more than I should. I've recently had leukaemia, and one of the things that I was told is that I had to cut my drinking right down. Which I've done. So if I go out at night and I've had one or two drinks, I come home and I may forget to do it late at night. But usually, as I'm becoming more used to doing it, then I do it without even thinking about it.
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