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Reporting back ... we saw the consultant on Thursday who said William should carry on using his tummy for the time being as his arms are too thin. So it's a weight gain programme! Unfortunately he's had to go back on iv antibiotics as the infection has come back, so that's a bit of a blow, but...

Thanks everyone for these v.useful replies. He does 4+ injections a day (depending on how much he wants to eat between meals!). We have our first appointment with his consultant this afternoon since diagnosis, so I have a great long list of questions and one will be whether he can use his arms...

Hi Danny. My son is newly diagnosed too and has had quite a few hypos as his blood sugar gets stabilised. I think you need to talk with your diabetic nurse about how to tweak your insulin/diet to sort out the hypos. My son has had to drop the amount of insulin he uses as his sugars get more...

Hello all. My son (aged 13) is a newly diagnosed diabetic, on the MDI regime. He also has lymphoedema which prevents him from injecting in his legs, and to cap it all, he is very skinny! So he is just injecting in his (not very chubby) tummy. I am keen to avoid the fatty lumps problem and just...

Thank you for your reply! It will be good to see a chiropodist as his feet and legs are quite swollen by the lymphodedma (basically lymphatic fluid that can't drain because his lymphatics are faulty, which makes him vulnerable to infection). Also interesting that you can use the arms - right now...

Hello I'm mum to a 13 year old boy who has had primary lymphoedema all his life. For the last month, he has had a deep leg infection that wouldn't completely resolve despite IV antibiotics. Last week, we had the additional diagnosis of type 1 diabetes ... double whammy. He is so much better now...