Recent Content by crushersmum

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    Is Type 2 Coronavirus low risk

    https://alama.org.uk/covid-19-medical-risk-assessment/ is an excellent website being used by local council HR departments to assess the risk to workers returning to work - The tables are updated regularly as evidenece changes and takes into account HBA1C as well as type of Diabetes and age and...
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    My daughter wont take her insulin

    Been there too. From a parent who came out the other side after a very battered 5 years of fighting (including Trying to watch every injection & testing and injecting my teen while they were asleep as I knew they had missed injections too & also ending up with social services on my back) you...
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    Airplane travel

    My husband flew back from Colombia on 1st May, everyone had to wear masks, Temperatures were taken at the airport, but most importantly the food was very poor and not sufficient for a 16 hour flight ( which followed 24 hours on a bus) So if you are planning to fly, take your own food...
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    Paradoxial Low Blood Sugar, Has This Ever Happend to You??

    My son uses lolly pops which do not need to be eaten for the sugar to get into your bloodstream as it is absorbed through the mouth. We used them when he was sick when younger & could not hold down food & now after alcohol (Frequently from the street Angels team who conveniently hand them out...
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    Have you managed to get prescriptions for extended travel?

    Insulin oges off if over 30C for any time- which does not usually happen in Europe ( might this week) but will if you go anywhere more exotic. My Brother-in-Law ( also T1) travelled to Kenya few years ago & the fridge didn't work & his insulin went cloudy and almost stopped working so he had to...
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    Type 1 Lifer being put on Metformin

    My son was put on Metfomin when he was only 16 years old after being diagnosed with Type 1 aged 11. He was seriously underweight at the time ( due to poor control so bad it had stunted his growth) - The doctor at the time said she had been to a recent conference that said Metformin could be used...
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    Have you managed to get prescriptions for extended travel?

    My son is leaving for a 6 month placement in Central & South America and his GP originally said a month ago that the prescription would be no problem but when he tried to actually get enough supplies for the trip a different GP in the practice said the limit was 3 months supplies and he would...
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    My Son doesnt want to accept

    Hi Sharon, I feel for you and understand precisely as I went through exactly the same. A son who accepted diabetes for a few years then hit puberty & with added mood swings and testosterone of growing up he rebelled big time. The total breakdown in trust between us damaged the family beyond...
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    really bad rage

    I had EXACTLY the same with my son when he was a teen. ( 6 smashed windows in one year as he put his fist or insulin pen through them!) We finally cured it when we realised that it is ENTIRELY related to sudden high blood sugars - which as I am sure you know can triple within the space of 20...
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    how high and how low have you been?

    Depressingly, my son - who had a few rebellious teanage years, & has spent weeks on end over HI on the meter ( ie over 33 for 10 days running when he was 15!) & when admitted to hospital in one of his worse bouts, was off the scale of the hospital meter at more than 47... but back to normal...
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    Does anyone else with T1 not ever test?

    I have a T1 son aged 17 who does not ever test - Does anyone else with Type 1 NEVER test & manage ok? He was told to cut down tests to just once a day by his medical team, about 3 years ago so he did ( he had been testing regularly 3-5 times a day until the day he was told to stop) and as he...
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    Healthy long term type 1's

    There is a very positive website of oral histories of people through the last century with diabetes - most were well into retirement when they were interviewed. I used to get far too worried when my son was first diagnosed, & this site releaved the worry slightly. The hardest part will be...
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    Ketoacidosis

    You can't educate your child - at 13 they WILL NOT LISTEN. Particularly not to parents & if they are adamant that they are in denial, neither will they listen to hospital staff until they are seriously ill. My son rebelled seriously at 13 ( 8 hospital admissions in 2 years) & nearly all of...
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    Gloomy email from JDRF

    http://www.diabetes-stories.com/index.asp is the most fantastic website of Oral histories of diabetes - & includes the story of hte 74 year old in the TV documentory. It is a great way to look at the progress through the century & how so many people have survived far longer than the 20 years...
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    Diabetics have to queue?

    Thorpe Park gives passes to my son who has type 1 diabetes. I started asking for one after we spent 3 1/2 hours in a queue one day in August to a water ride ( tidal wave- which leaves you soaked to the skin at the end) & ran out of food during the time as we had left all the bags including the...