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Asking For Mother, Female 70, Peshawar

My mother aged 70 years having diabetes more than 26 years now along with Blood Pressure. Recently, her sugar levels aren't getting in control. Her sugar levels at Fasting around 140mg/dL to 190mg/dL and in Random after 4 hours of meal comes to around 250mg/dL to 380mg/dL. Her recent HBA1C was 9.3%. She is also a high BP patient. Apart from BP & cholestrol medicines, she is using for Sugar control

Getryl 2mg once before breakfast and once before Dinner. Sitaglu 50mg (1 + 1) Dapa 5mg

Her kidneys are weak (but not on dialysis yet), and under treatment of Nephrologist for kidneys, BP and sugar. Recently she had some pains in left side of abdomen for which ultrasound and CT scans were done but everything seems normal. Doctor then stopped Metformin which he thinks not good for kidneys and can have a suspect pain for abdomen. For substitute of Metformin 500mg (1 + 1), he adviced for Dapa 5mg. But nothing has improved much and her sugar levels are not getting in normal Range. I really need

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I really need advice from Diabetologist on this. Due to Covid, don't want to take my mother to hospitals / clinics.
For your Reference
Creatinine : 1.8mg/dL
Urea : 55mg/dL
Potassium : 5.9mmol/L
Chloride 103mmol/L
Sodium 141 mmol/L
Bicarbonate 29mmol/L
Uric Acid 5.9mg/dL

In Urine R/E, her Protein is mostly +++


Please note, She don't want to use insulin in any case. I tried to convince her but she don't want to

Endocrinologist in Peshawar - Asst. Prof. Dr. Tahir Ghaffar Khattak

Asst. Prof. Dr. Tahir Ghaffar Khattak - Endocrinologist

MBBS, FCPS (Medicine),FCPS (Endo), MRCP(UK) | Peshawar

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Need to start insulin with that and that will surely work. Add Inj Lantus solostar 10 units at bed time AFTER dinner along with the current medications

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Thank you very much sir. My mother dont want to . Is there any possibility to increase any dose of the current medicines for the last time and if that doesn't works, I will surely make her start insulin ?
thanks in advance

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