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We have been carb counting since Christmas, although have never been on a course, thank god we have intelligence! It is only through reading on here I have found out that there are courses! Also we cannot maintain hba1c under 8, although when i ask questions about it all i get back as an answer...

Hi I would like to approach Reading Hospital about a pump for my son (age 11). Does anyone know how Reading stand on helping to get them? or are they anti? I would like to know in advance so I am mentally prepared! From what I have read on here, some hospitals are more willing than others! Thanks.

Hi Thank you so much for that! I will be enquiring at clinic on our next visit about obtaining a pump for Scott, so that site is invaluable to me. Thanks Tracey

Hi Nicola My son is type 1, he is now 11 and was diagnosed at 4. He too used to cry at injections, it was very harrowing so my heart goes out to you. Then they cahnged him from the syringe and bottle to pen type injections! We have never looked back since. I dont know if it is psychological, I...

I would also like to add, that apart from lists of carbs everywhere in the kitchen, I do have a big calculator as well! hahaha.x

My son went onto the carb counting at Christmas. We went to see the dietian who gave us a small printed list of carbs, told us to do 1 unit insulin to10g of carbs and left it at that! ( No Im not impressed with the clinic and never have been!Thank God I have a brain!). This didnt work out ...

Hi Lisa. Im scotts mum. Scott is now 11 and he was diagnosed as type 1 at the age of 4. I know what you're going through, shock and despair and thinking you will never cope, but you will! Scott has accepted it a lot better than I have, I still have moments of not coping but they pass...

Thanks. I am totally confused over a lot of things. I find when we go to clinic, when I ask questions they try to brush me off, it feels that they dont want me to know too much or as much as them! Or maybe they just dont know! Last time when I asked about the varience in his blood sugars the...

Hi. I was totally entranced by all the information on low carb diet as I have never been told about this! Is it because my son is a child and therefore it is not suitable for him?. For breakfast he has cereal, lunch sandwiches and in the evening cooked meal, with potato, rice or pasta! Oh my...

Hi again. I would also like to add that the best thing I found was a blood tester that could be used on the forearm. Scott absolutely detested finger pricking(understandably) and it became a battle ground. Then I was told about the free style monitor which we could use on the arm! (Apart from in...

Hi Ellies dad. My heart and love go out to you both. My son is now 11, he was diagnosed at 4. At the time I was shell shocked and didnt think I could cope! But now it is second nature. Things will get better. Scott does all his own blood tests and injections and Ellie will too. It was me that...

Thank you for the replies it has helped. We went into hospital as Scott was vomiting all day, empty stomach, then ketones 4+. They put him on drips, then in passing one of the nurses said "cant bring the sugars down too quick or he,l get edema on the brain! She then left! I was still reeling at...

Could you please explain to me, why, if the blood sugars are brought down to quickly, it can cause brain edema? Thank you.

Hi, thank you for the replies, I do feel better today,still a bit weepy but not as bad!I think it helped just letting it out and writing it down. Scott seems fine today, it doesnt seem possible a few days ago he was so ill with drips in. At home he does all his own blood tests and injections, he...

Thank you for the hugs, im still embracing them! I feel such anomosity towards the 2 doctors who messed up the lines and couldnt do them properly,and put my child through pain, I want to tell them they need to go back to med school and practice and that my son is a child and not a piece of meat...