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Hi, Yes Sue thats what my OH said. But as far as I'm aware the hospital do a full bloods for it as do our diabetic clinic at the surgery. Michael says hes only ever had the 'posh machine' at the clinic in town. Which I think would be almost impossible to get him into, esp when the surgery here...

Hi Suzi, I really do feel like I am stuck. Hes not moving downhill, but hes not moving uphill either. I would expect if this was all just a 'viral issue' as they call it, he would be at least starting to get better. Its like being in limbo. I'm really trying not to worry, while still keeping an...

Hi Steve, I just wanted to reply to your post as I am the wife of a T1 with similar problems to yourself. My husband has been diabetic for 18yrs and has, according to his mother, always had problems with agression when hes is close to a hypo. From my experience of him, the last 10yrs have been...

Thanks again everyone, I dont have access to a blood and ketone machine, only my husbands. But i will ask a friend who I think has a machine too so will find out. Sue - I cant believe someon in A&E told you that. Like you say they obviously dont know anything! But it makes a valid point. We...

Hi, Thanks jen for your post. I really dont know what to think. Our strips only show ketones. And showed a trace last time and I just checked his BG which was at 9. Ok thats on the higher end of the range but he'd had a lolipop an hour or so before that. When you say a glucose tolerance test it...

Just a quick update. Did his BG, it was at 9. He did have a lolipop about an hour or so before that too, so could equate for the slighly higher than normal reading. But surely thats ok. Yet another odd ball just to confuse me! Thanx again guys x

Hi, I have a 2 1/2 year old with what they call pre-diabetes, but he has all the drinking/weeing symptoms of a diabetic. He is actually trained but I have to say its harder now that hes having these symptoms. He trained at just over 2, although not at night he still wears a pull up. He was...

Hi again, Yes lilibet, i too thought pre-diabetic was in T2 adults showing very near diabetic levels. But my GP backed up what the older consultant said. He calls it glucose intolerance, which he says is a more accepted term by newer qualified docs. He said its not seen everytime with children...

Hi and thankyou, I too didnt realise there was such a thing as a pre-diabetic! I thought you either were or weren't but apparently not, esp in children, where there can be what the consultant called a honeymoon phase. Stange if you ask me! Anyway, I have been watching him carefully over the...

Hi Sue, Thankyou so very much for that information. It is more than the hospital gave us. I made an app 2day for him with an very highly rated and experienced doc at our practice, who was full of information and was disapointed that we were treated as we were and confused as to why we were not...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on ketones. I have a little boy (2 1/2) who has just been diagnosed with glucose intolerance or pre-diabetes as one consultant called it. We are to keep check on him, regularly checking his urine for ketones and a 3montly doc app for full bloods etc. But when i...

Hi, thankyou I have only a short time to reply just now so it will be quick. I have since been back yesterday morning a whole hrs drive for a dipstick test! When they said, yes its fine, then had the idea they were sending us off home. I was not fo rit and wanted an explaination. To discover...

Hi, and thankyou for the replies. I possibly didnt explain the whole situation. He has a basal insulin at night then a fast acting insulin as and when he eats, depending on how much and what he has eaten. His probelm being that he has lunch for example to suit a regular (or as precdictable as...

Hi, I took him to the doc this am. She didnt do any test etc, just sent us in to hospital. We got there to discover his BS was at 4.9. Which really confused me. How could it be so high then again so low? After a while they came to us saying they suspected he had what they called pre-diabetes...

Hi, I'm writing on behalf of my husband, who hates comps lol. He is T1 and has been sine he was a child he is now 29. He has a very active job, he is a farmer and it can vary from chasing cows to sitting in a tractor all day. He is by the clinic told to keep his BS between 6 and 9 for his...