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Hi! My daughter (3) is possibly going to be diagnosed as T1, but she either doesn’t fit the usual criteria or we have caught it early, but I’m confused really.. I went to the GP about constipation, she’d had some pain in her abdomen as well so the GP tested her urine for a uti - no uti but glucose +++, blood sugar was then tested at 15.7, ketones 0.1. Off to the hospital and they didn’t believe me when I said I was referred because she may be diabetic, they checked it then (a couple of hours later) and it was 12.5. A couple of hours after that it was 4 and her ketones were 0.7. They were confused and wouldn’t commit either way if she was diabetic or not and wanted to monitor her blood sugars for a few weeks + send away for autoantibody tests. Her hba1c was 5.4.
So fast forward she’s had some good days and bad days, some days her sugars never went above 6, other days they were over 12 after meals. She swings high and then low quite quickly, often from 4 - 12 - 4 within an hour. All the way she’s never had any classical symptoms of diabetes such as thirst, weight loss (although she’s always been a slow gainer), etc. All her antibody tests came back negative and her c-peptide was marginally low. Still don’t know what’s going on.. could she actually be diabetic, or is this just some strange toddlerhood thing? She eats a good diet, lots of fruit and veggies, minimal processed food really, very active. Just looking for support as the docs are being quite vague..
So fast forward she’s had some good days and bad days, some days her sugars never went above 6, other days they were over 12 after meals. She swings high and then low quite quickly, often from 4 - 12 - 4 within an hour. All the way she’s never had any classical symptoms of diabetes such as thirst, weight loss (although she’s always been a slow gainer), etc. All her antibody tests came back negative and her c-peptide was marginally low. Still don’t know what’s going on.. could she actually be diabetic, or is this just some strange toddlerhood thing? She eats a good diet, lots of fruit and veggies, minimal processed food really, very active. Just looking for support as the docs are being quite vague..