Hello everyone,
Is there anyone out there having chemo who, like me, also has Type 1 diabetes?
I am finding managing the two extremely challenging - the dexamethasone creates a wall that my insulin finds hard to jump over and the G-csf injections gave me massive hypos three and a quarter hours after injecting which at night put me at risk of falling into a diabetic coma.
The oncologist has made it clear that this isn’t her area so I’m on my own, albeit with the telephone support of my diabetes team. We made an advance plan for chemo 1 but it was wholly inadequate. Now I have a revised 10 day diabetes management plan for chemo 2 but it will be very much a case of trial and error. My requests to include an endocrinologist into my MDT has met with a flat refusal.