How To Write A Hypoglycemia Case Study

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CHIEF COMPLAINT
This 53-year-old Hispanic male, with 27 months to serve, is here for followup of diabetes, and hyperlipidemia, hepatitis C.

SUBJECTIVE
Overall he feels well. He stopped taking the glipizide because he had an episode of hypoglycemia. He starts work at 7:00 in the morning and cannot eat until 8:30 if he takes his glipizide before he comes to work then he has episodes of hypoglycemia and the guards will not let him change how he eats even though he was offered food in the kitchen. His only real meal is breakfast but he eats a very big breakfast and is not hungry the rest of the day. He exercises regularly. His other meds are Metformin 1000 mg twice a day, lisinopril which he does not take, aspirin which he does take.

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