Type 1 diabetes

I have seen a number of similar threads with
questions and comments about
proper regulation,insulin types;
Lantus & others, and the ability to
take care of one’s self.
Here’s the info:
Your Diabetes is NOT going to disappear,
so, it would be to your advantage to
learn all you can.
How else could you possibly take care of yourself?
Forgetting your meter or forgetting to check your bg
is a bunch of crapola. Did you forget to put your pants on?
There is NO EXCUSE for not testing your blood sugar,
and taking insulin as needed.
When meters first came out, the average test took two minutes.
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I’m a type 2 diabetic 65 years old. I’ve had diabetes since I was 27
(for 37 years) Although I have always manged - for the most part to
maintain good bg levels. I started getting neuropathy in my feet
and my hands a few years ago. My HB1Ac’s run between 6.0 and 6.5. My
doctor told me about a vitamin B1 supplement called benfotiamine.
I’ve been taking it for almost two months along with my regular
vitamin supplement and it’s really working. After about three weeks
about 50% of my feeling returned and it continues to improve. I
thought that I would share this with you as the neuropathy had become
a real problem. I found the benfotiamine at www.diabetesresources.org

Hello All,
I just joined this group tonight. I am a 16 year old newly diagnosed
juvenille diabetic. I was just diagnosed in June. I’ve done good so
far but it seems the reality of it is just now all settling in on me.
So I decided it might help to talk to some people who know what im
going through.
~Becca~

We have tried to keep Brian home for 2 weeks at a time and show him
how much better his bs are. But he just refuses to see it. To him
none of us now how he is feeling so we are hoping the camp will help
him see that others have it and still have a ‘normal’ life.
He use to love basketball, track and now he doesn’t do either one.
We are not sure about the shot sites. Brian only weighs 75 lbs when
we can keep weight on him (has always been skinny).
We don’t have a support group around here for kids, I tried to get
one started but had no luck with it. Not one call from kids
interested in it.
When we call and talk to the endo office they just tell us to give
him his shots and watch him. The endo is suppose to be the top in
the field and is the only one in our area. ( would have to further
than 200 miles to find another one)
The counseling has helped alittle and we have put him on Zoloft for
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Ahhh… I can’t wait to see the replies to this. I am soon to be dealing
with the same type of child I believe. My son (10) is newly dx (6 weeks
now) and is going to be the exact same way. He leaves his monitor all over
the place, forgets his insulin, sneaks food, makes up blood sugar levels,
etc. Somehow when we went for his A1C last week (his first one) it was only
7. When he went into the hospital with the dx his bg was 800 after not
eating for almost 24 hours. What do we do with these guys? I want to hear
from the parents of some problem children! lol
Good luck with your kiddo, I don’t have a bit of advice for you other than
saying that the diabetes is his responsibility and he needs to deal with it
or not be able to go do the neat things he wants to do. If mine forgets
his monitor somewhere but wants to go out the next morning, obviously he
can’t go because he can’t test while he is out. If he doesn’t do his
insulin until noon the he can’t go to dinner with his buddy at 6 because his
shot would be too early in the evening, etc. I use it as subtly as I can,
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My son Brian was dx 5/02 He is not doing well with it at all. He
is 14. (The honeymoon wore off in sept.) We are sending him to
diabetes camp next weekend. 7/27 He is very mad at us about it but
the dr says he really needs to go. Anyone have anything to say about
the camps? Are they good? Helpful?
He uses humilun and humalog, twice a day. He has been hospitalized
5 times since he was 5/02. His A1C in June was 12. Not good at all
but at least it was on the chart this time. We have to give him his
shots but when he stays with friends he comes home high and doesn’t
take his blood sugars. How do you make him do the things he is
suppose to without making the diabetes who he is? If we punish him
for not taking his bg then to him we are punishing him for having
diabetes.( like not letting him stay the night with friends, etc.)
Do or have any of you experienced this? How did or do you handle
it? We have him in counseling but he refuses to talk to him, says
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O.k. folks I’ve got my “Why me (us)” blues out of the way for a while
at least. I’m sure they will sneak back in at times. We started
Chelsea on N and R when all of this first came up. Which as you know
is pretty restrictive about carbs and times to eat etc. She wants to
now switch to Lantus and (whatever the other one is called) and use
the pen needles so that she can eat whenever she wants, even though it
means more shots. Does anyone have experience with this and did your
children like it? She is not at all interested in the pump.
Ginger

Has anyone used Gurmar. It is a herb that claims to reduce blood
sugars. Please let me know if this has worked for you. Thanks Randi’s
Mom.

I am home now. Have been on a trip
for 2weeks.

Thanks to everyone that responded to yesterday’s tirade. I thank God
for all of your words of encouragement but especially for the
permission to feel the way I do. If you or your child does not have
type I there is no way to understand. Again yesterday the mother of
my daughter’s friend said to me “It could be worse.” I was sitting
there crying my eyes out. She’s even a nurse. I couldn’t believe it.
How stupid does she think I am. I know. I know. I know. Next time
someone tells me that my response will be, “When your child is
diagnosed with Type 1 come tell me if you still feel that way.”
Just because you know it could be worse does not make it any easier.
I thank God for my daughter. I thank God I have her to give shots of
insulin to twice a day. I thank God I have her little fingers to
prick four times a day to test her bsl. But maybe if we all wouldn’t
let it “fit” so well into our lives. Maybe if we didn’t get “used” to
it. Maybe if we didn’t become complacent to it. Maybe if we all
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