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• #27
Diagnosis of type 1 at age 63 is unusual. He is between a rock and a hard place, on the one hand, the pills will help reduce the risk of developing complications of diabetes (e.g. heart, kidney and eye disease) but on the other hand, exercise will help lower his blood pressure.
I think he needs to talk to a diabetic specialist.
He was 63 when he was diagnosed, he is now 65. Strange to develop type one at that age- they did lots of tests to try to work out why, but no conclusions seemed to be reached on that one.
He's got high blood pressure as well, for which he has pills to bring it down- but those make him feel constantly knackered, so he cannot summon the energy to go for his morning walk, which makes his sugar shoot up...
I think this is stupid, and that he should put the pills on hold and go for longer walks- see if that brings the pressure down. But I am in no way a medical person.