Recent Content by Lennycollins

Appreciate the feedback- you sometimes think you’ve cracked the code, but diabetes has a way of always flinging a curveball!! Add in teenage hormones and it amplifies it even more. I agree that you need to deal with the ups and downs and perfection is seldom achieved. Wish I would stop...

Thanks for this - I’m lucky in a sense that she’s so compliant (she’s never missed a bolus since diagnosis). I think it’s the sporadic (not food related) spikes that comes with puberty and menstruation that raise her pretty quickly to around 11-12mmol from being steady at 6mmol. The problem is...

Thanks for coming back - yes I think she is doing well, as a parent you want to protect and advise your children so this is definitely my problem.

Hi - Some advice / reassurance required (I think?). I’m the parent of a teenager daughter (16) diagnosed at 8…. so we have lived with this for some time now. Recently however my anxiety with her numbers (via her cgm) had risen significantly. I’m not sure why as she has never had an HbAC1 over 58...