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Hi there,I've been living in Spain (I am not British) for some time now and my son is type 1 diabetic so I may give you some info.Private insurance as far as I know don't cover diabetes costs as it is pre-existing condition.when you get all the residency documents and tarjeta sanitaria ( HEALTH...

Hi @novorapidboi26 I was just checking the test results from 6 months ago and now. He didn't have creatinin in the blood 6 months ago, and I dont' have the blood results from the latest analysis, only urine test results. But I remember his endo telling me on Monday he doesn't have creatinin in...

Hi, @Muneeb , thanks. yes that's exactly what worries me - that it is a separate illness, which is progressive and not related to diabetes, where, as far as I know, with proper care and control of D, you can keep the early nephropathy under control for a long time...

Hi everybody, The last have been full of fear and dread for us. The latest diabetes check up showed high levels of albumines and proteins in the urine. My son was diagnosed in 2017 and we have managed quite well, his HbA1c tests were in 5-5,9% range, only the last one from September is 6,4%. He...

Libre is a super useful tool, I think. We have had a different issue with it: it falls off after 2-3 hours from my son's arm. The first two times the nurse at the clinic put it on his arm and he went back to school, calling me after 2 hours to say it has fallen off during basketball game.Me and...

Thanks @helensaramay for this advice, I really appreciate it. You are right, I will wait for some kind of trend to appear.We have half unit pens and we upped his bolus for the dinner for 1/2 unit so 2 hours after it's 6,7, hope it won't rise later.

Hi and thanks @Fairygodmother. Yes he takes the whole dose of lantus with the evening meal, but what you said may have sense.I wonder why the endo didn't mention such possibility, I will ask her. It may also be that the honeymoon is ending, as I find it more diffulct in the last few weeks, for...

Its something we still have to learn and work on @helensaramay, I know, we still believe there can be some control over D... and what happened just shows us the opposite, so yes, managing not controlling... I liked your analogy @evilclive its just that I don't drive precisely because of that...

Hi @evilclive and thanks a lot for your thoughts. Both things you said make sense...I was also thinking about the injection site problem, but dismissed it as he has been diabetic for less than 2 years? The growth spurt can also be the reason. @helensaramay thanks, yes, he's got tests in school...

Hi everybody Last night 2 hours after dinner my son (12) had a bg of 20.We've done everything as usual, the same amount of carbs and humalog dose so this came as quite a shock.After the correction it fell to 7.7 and stayed there until the morning. Otherwise he's very well contolled and never...

Hi there @yoyogali what you experience though is rare, it can happen to some of the honeymooners, according to our peadiatric endocrinologist.I also encountered a number of sceintific studies on the internet describing the phenomenon. The doctors don't know exactly why it is happening to some of...

Hi our son who is 11 wad diagnosed last March.Soon after we got him a libre.In the beginning he was happy with it, not once did it come off in scholl or even in thr pool practice.Then one time we have accidentally hit the bllod vessel and it was very painful and bleeding.after waiting for a few...

Oh, I didn't know, too bad.Hopefully it will be approved in Europe soon.I guess it is a serious competition for regular insulin producers hence the delay...

I was also curious about it.It souns really good from your experience.Do you still use it and if not why not? Is it possible to get it on prescription in Europe or has to be self-funded?

I recently saw that DRI in Miami has an ongoing clinical trial for T1D called POSEIDON which administers high doses of vitamin D and Omega 3 to T1 patients.They do not necessarily look at it as a cure but rather explore whether it can and how much affect glucose control. I was wandering has any...

My son (11 years) is now 9 months since diagnosis.We had three HbA1c tests so far.First in June and was 5.8%, second one in September and it was 5 and few days ago it was 5.2%.I am so so happy and just hope to be able to continue this way.....

I hear people say that control will be much more difficult post honeymoon.Is that really so? The greatest benefit of my son's honeymoon is overall stability of his blood sugars and very low occurence of only milder hypos (around 3.5).I would absolutely hate to see that gone and I am dreading the...

Maybe this will work http://diabetika.es/en/120-lancing-devices

I would like to spare the fingers of my son as much as possible so the price is secondary to me.I was wondering if anybody had experience with using the device and if its really painlesd as they say