Type 2 diabetes

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Dh was diagnosed with this just over a year ago and has pretty much ignored all the advice and rarely took the medication as prescribed. Unbelievably, considering how he acts, he has really bad health anxiety.
For the last three weeks dh has frequently had a raging thirst, frequent urination and a fungal infection he's also been very lethargic and sleeping at every opportunity.At a hospital appointment on Friday for another blood condition (polycythaemia vera which he takes chemotherapy tablets for) he had lost 9lbs.
Until yesterday he refused to accept that it was the diabetes although he has been taking the metformin as prescribed. I bought the urine dip sticks and they show levels between 500 and 2000 mg/dl.
I have offered to make an appointment with GP but he said to keep out of it and he will sort it which he might in time but I think he needs to be seen quickly.
So, how serious are the levels and does he need to be seen quickly? He drives me mad googling every complication but refusing to do anything to prevent it tbh.

Tbh it sounds pretty bad anyway and if he does collapse it's out of his hands anyway because you will have to ring for an ambulance, don't bother phoning a gp. They'll say ring 999 as its an emergency by then. But these are all classic symptoms of uncontrolled diabetes.

I don't understand dipsticks, we have a blood monitor for dh.

If he won't go you can't force him.

sounds from what you describe he has gone past the oral medication stage and needs insulin now !

depending on his age and other factors he might also might be LADA or MODY which are other variations, its not always as simple as T1 or T2

as said, you cannot force him ..... but maybe sooner rather than later he will have no choice, he will just get so ill ha wont be able to function very well.

I can be hard accepting conditions, of course it can , and we can all be ostriches at times.. No one wants to change their diet / lifestyle, habits of a lifetime and / or take medication for a condition you have for life and for which there is no cure. Sooner or later he will have no option .... or he will have to face up to the medical consequences of uncontolled diabetes ( and it aint pretty