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REALLY kinda FREAKING OUT

Melinda — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:48:19 GMT

Obviously I am a t1--with it being D Awareness Month, I decided to do a check on my kiddos. I have tested my oldest before and he is always normal (today was 125), my youngest though has never been tested and was 195. He had some crackers and a cookie about 30 minutes before the test but so did my oldest. I am planning to test him again in about an hour and a half to see if it's come down. But I am fighting back tears of fear and worry that my baby may have to deal with this too. Any yays or nays as to whether this is a valid concern right now? I know pre diabetes is 200+ but normal range is typically 90 to 145. HELP

My son

Molly — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:09:26 GMT

My 4 year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 last Dec. Now my son who is 6 is starting to have accidents, and not making it to the bathroom. Am I over reacting or is this a cause for concern? He moods are kinda up and down too, but that could be from a full summer of activities. He seems to be eating good and not overly thirsty. Let me know what you all think.

Thanks Molly Fry

NEWLY DIAGNOSED 5 YEAR OLD

ragsy — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:56:35 GMT

PLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THIS . i AM TERRIFIED... I DONT KNOW ANYTHING.

Prediabetics

mik11swim — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:26:38 GMT

I was just wondering what prediabetics were. I heard that Bret Michaels daughter has this and I didn't know what they meant by this.

Friend with a high BS reading

Joey — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:22:06 GMT

Hey everybody! So last weekend I was out camping and was checking my bs level before i ate lunch, a friend of mine was curious of what his mite be, so we checked it out and he was 13.1, he hadnt ate anything all day and it was going on dinner time. we checked it again later that day and he was down to 6. is this something he should get checked out or is it normal for some people. He's in his early twenty's and fairly active.

Just a story that's made me wonder

Angie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:27:56 GMT

Okay, those who know me know my 15-year-old son was diagnosed April 2009 and that he's a dancer. Summer 2008, he went away to dance camp for 4 weeks. This meant he was dancing A LOT. This meant that he was eating on a university meal plan where he picked out whatever he wanted to eat three meals a day. DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND. There is nothing about this story that should make you think that I think his food choices caused his T1. But I know that he made daily horrible food choices. I witnessed it one weekend when I was there to see the Paul Taylor Dance Company. And my son and I share a 15 year old friend who was also at the camp and she confirms that his choices were horrible.

Twice that summer he got sick. Like vomiting sick. Vomiting sick is really strange for him, as in it hadn't happened in years. The first incident, one Saturday night, he had been at a Contact Improv Jam for a few hours. Walking back from the jam with friends, he got really sick, stomach hurt horribly, and he collapsed (didn't not pass out). Counselors called EMTs. We get a call at 11:30 p.m. that EMTs are with my son!! They didn't find anything wrong. (Nobody checked blood sugar that I know of.) Counselors got him settled in bed and checked on him throughout the night. He stayed in bed Sunday. He stayed in bed half of Monday, then resumed life at dance camp.

A few weeks later, he left a Battleworks performance halfway through because he felt so bad (and he was loving the performance). He curled up on a bench in the lobby of the theatre until it was over. (He was 14 and not allowed to go anywhere by himself.) He felt horrible and stayed kind of wimpy for a few days.

So during the intervening 9 months, he went to school and danced with no illness that I can remember. He's always been underweight and I don't think he was gaining during that 9 months. I not really sure when the weight loss before diagnosis started but he lost over 10 pounds.

So his dad and I have wondered if this was some kind of precursor to the development of his full-blown T1. My sons blames the first incident on a milkshake and the second on food poisoning. ??? Of course, we will never know. This was all nine months before full blown diabetes. And since that presented itself during a trip to Rome where he was literally having 2 gelatos every day with lots of pizza and pasta, and then returned to the States and starting vomiting (voluminously and repeatedly hours later) within 24 hours and not recovering and regaining strength for three days before I finally took him to his pediatrician----well, it's hard not to experience that without eventually thinking of the previous summer and wondering about a connection. Again, I KNOW the gelatos or other bad food choices did not cause the diabetes. He'd been losing weight and drinking, drinking, drinking, and acting strange from the moment we arrived in Rome. But I think that all could have sent him over the edge---such that when we were finally in the ped's office, his blood sugar just read HI (which meant over 600) and by the time we got to the ER, they admitted him straight away, with threats of ICU, but fortunately just in on Wednesday and out on Friday.

Thoughts? Similar stories? Not symptoms leading up to dx, but half a year or so before dx?

The happy part to the story (for me) is that at dx he was 85 pounds. Put that boy on insulin and BAM!!! His weight gain was immediate. And he started growing in height as well---body's response to much needed weight gain in a 15 year old? In September he was 110. He's still underweight (what is he now, 5 foot 7?), but he looks SO much better. Some of you have heard this part before from me, so I'm guessing I should really turn out the light and go to sleep.

Are You In The Panda Study or Other Long-Term Study?

Monique H — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:10:55 GMT

Our ped endo has brought up the Panda Study as an option for our family. I'd be interested in getting our T1 son's brothers tested to see if they are "at risk", especially our youngest. And, I like the idea of contributing toward diabetes research. But, I'm not sure what kind of commitment it will take, and whether or not our boys would be willing to commit to any long-term follow-through.

Is anyone in a long-term study of this type? What has been your experience? Recommendations?

At the time of diagnosis

Sue — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:23:58 GMT

They say type 1 is caused by a virus... was anyone really sick when they were diagnosed?

I had scarletina right around the time I was diagnosed. They told me the virus wiped out my pancrease.

Any other stories?

A1C as diagnostic tool

Matt Johnson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:31:03 GMT

I was reading this article on CNN yesterday...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/08/diabetes.screening.a1c/index.html?iref=newssearch

and I just was thinking to myself that this was a little behind. I'm certainly no expert but my physician definitely used my A1C test as the diagnostic tool for me. As I was reading this article, it was seemed like it was announcing A1C testing as some new breakthrough tool or process to use. It seemed like an outdated pointless article to me, but maybe that's just my opinion.

Brother has hyperglycemia, but no diagnosis yet... what do you think?

Mad Evans — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:20:23 GMT

So my brother has a frame similar to mine, super skinny and tall. I've always worried he'd develop type 1, and I think he may. His wife was down for the weekend and she was telling us that he was diagnosed with thrush (a fungal infection of the mouth) and was urinating quite a bit. When she went home, I sent her with a glucose meter and told her I'd send with her some instructions for my brother.

I did a psuedo-glucose tolerance test and it was just above normal, in the impaired glucose tolerance or "Pre-diabetes" range. However, he had a big dinner that night and ate lots of desserts and I told him to test the next morning for another fasting glucose number just in case.

280.

I was so shocked. 8 hours of fasting after a big meal and he was 280???? I couldn't believe it. Obviously, he and his wife a freaked out and he has a Dr.'s appointment for next week. I'm pretty sure he's had high blood sugars for a while now since he was diagnosed with thrush (which happens sometimes in type 2s when their sugars are high, but not critically high, for long periods of time) and he's had symptoms for quite some time now.

So what do you think he is? Type 1? Some other form?

As an interesting side note... my diabetes is kinda weird too. I don't require as much insulin as a lot of my T1 friends and I'm auto-antibody negative. So maybe we both have some sort of genetic form of diabetes and mine is just more severe? Who knows...

If anyone has any similar experience or has anything to share I'd be happy to hear from you.

Craving Milk??

Daniels Mom — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:41:24 GMT

During the weeks prior to my son's diagnosis he was drinking huge amounts of milk. Craving it I think. He could go through a gallon a day. (He was 9 not 19).

I read of another community member who said the same thing. "Milk was the only thing that quenched her thirst".

Anyone else experience this?

Diabeti-versary

Bethany — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:49:16 GMT

Heyyyyy, my mom just told me that today, 1 yaer ago, my she brought my to the hospital 'cuz i was really sick. You guessed it, i had diabetes!

So one year from then, i look back on that horendous first week and shudder. It amazes me how much we change in a year, from being completly ignorant, to practicly knowing it all (well.. about diabetes... except for the cure...) Please post here if you have any comments realated to being a 'newbie' or changing, or please tell how long you have had Diabetes (from when you were diagnosed to now)

Thank you :D