DEPRESSION????

I am writing this post for some advice... Some good advice..... :)

I am in need of advice for my fiance. She is diabetic (diagnosed about four
years ago.... semi-uncontrolled until about three months ago)

After a nice summer vacation, she came down extremely sick. She was out of
medication (she told me it wasn't a big deal) she was out of test strips
(she told me she could tell "by feeling" what her sugar levels where) and we
had a vacation that included indulging in all the WRONG foods. When we got
home form the trip, she slept for hours and hours and hours.... At first, I
thought it was me or something I had did wrong. After a while I realized
that it had to be the diabetes (at the time I was totally unaware of the
effects of diabetes) When I finally realized it could be her BGL I tried to
get her to go see a doctor. She refused adamantly... I mean she even
threatened to leave me if I called the paramedics....


Long story short..... I took her to she her doctor two days later. Her BGL
was close to 600. God only knows how high it was those two days prior. She
refused to stay in the hospital but the doctor put her on insulin (sliding
scale) up her meds (drastically) and I am trying to control her diet...

She has slipped into a depression that has gone from bad to way way worse.

I got her back to the doctor, explained all her signs/symptums and gave
showed the doctor all the intake notes on meds, insulin, and other stuff ZI
had been charting. The doctor now took away the Glipizide and put her on
Lantus 1Xday with Regular Insulin on a larger sliding scale to account for
all carbs/suger intake. The doctor also put her on an anti-depressant.....
That made things way worse.... She went from thoughts of leaving me to
thoughts of suicide....

Finally, I got her off the anti-depressant and she is starting to stabalize
a bit more but, she is still going through bouts of extreme depression....

Is this normal?

Even though we are stabalizing her BGL with the insulin, she still binges
all the time... Almost daily. She has gained some weight and this makes her
even more depressed. I urge her to get more and more exercise but, her
depression seems to be taking all her energy away. The more she is
depressed, the more she binges. The more she binges, the more she is
depressed.

How (if anyway is possible) can I help her to stop this ugly cycle of
events?

Has anyone gone through this before?

Does everyone go through this?

She is definately in denial. (Her answer to the problem is "If I don't think
about it, it won't affect me.") She tells me to stop treating her like she
is sick but I tell her that she is sick This is an illness that will never
go away but this is an illness that is 100% controllable if she just takes
matters into her own hands. (Since all of this has happened, I have done
much reading and investigating into the illness and have educated myself
quite well on all the facts of diabetes except those of depression
associated with the disease.)

How do I help her through this?

Like some of the threads that I have read in this groupd say, I am not going
to let this beat me or us. I love this woman very very very much and want to
have a long and loving relationship with her.

What more can I do to help her understand?


Thanks in advance... Please post...



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