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Hello hun i would def go to ur doctor when my son was 4 i left it and left it thinking no it cant be but had looked up symptoms of diabetes and he seemed to have a few of them, anyway he ended up really poorly and had i been able to go back and be pushy i would do it, better to be pushy and be...

goodness 2 children with diabetes must be really hard i struggle with one, i think im going to insist on this course as everyone seems to think that it helps a lot and will give me a better understanding too where as at the moment everything seems to be more luck than judgement, i find school...

yeah i gave him some extra rapid at lunch too hun im trying my hardest going to ask again about a carbohydrate counting course to give me a better understanding of it all which should help, i do have a ketones meter here and do test for them so dont worry hun on that front also got the sticks...

I feel for u hun my son was diagnosed at 4 and is now 8 its hard work and stressful sometimes, i cant help with the advice but just offering my support ur not on ur own

hiya 8 units wasnt the correction hun he usually has 7 anyway i added a unit to bring down some of it but dont like to go too mad as school dont really have a clue what is happening when he goes low its all such a worry i tested him again when i left and hes gone down to 27 instead of just...

oh ok hun thanx didnt know that i thought i lost it at 13 for good so good to know we get it for a few more years after its very helpful

thanx for ur replies guys i will have a look for the books u have recommended i havent read much to be honest only what i was given from the nurses it does feel a daily battle at the moment, ive just been to work (which is at his school) and hes complaining hes feeling unwell i tested him and he...

dylan is my world he loves football swimming and taekwondo and is always so brave and gets on with everything with no complaint like so many of these wonderful children we are all so lucky to have

he was 4 well nearly 5 when he was diagnosed but we never realised and we nearly lost him after i took him to hosp really concerned they sent us home saying he was just dehydrated and gave us dyralyte to give him he ended up in a coma and being rushed to hospital in an ambulance, lucky for us...

Hiya thanx for ur reply, he has just been changed in the last few months to levemir and nova rapid hes having 8u of levimir and then 7,5 and 5 of rapid, he has just started injecting himself with the help of a pen mate which makes me so proud of him for doing it when i think back to the first...

Hello all, i wanted to pop on and just have a quick chat, i have an 8 year old son who has diabetes and was diagnosed at 4 after the first year i was told he also has coeliac showing in his blood so had to go in for a camera to be put down his throat, the results came back and they have told us...

hello my 8 year old son is diabetic and we do get disability living allowance the nurses told me i could get it but we only get it until he is 13 so this maybe why the person at the jobcenter got confused we also get carers allowance as well which is all a big help as it meant i could cut my...

just posting a reply have phoned the nurses this morn and she is changing when we give the levemir (currently at 6pm) to breakfast time to see if this helps, she thinks the excessive hunger could be a growth spurt but may want to do some extra test in the near future to make sure as my son also...

thankyou both for your replies i am going to phone the nurses this morn i was just seeing if anyone on here had any suggestions in the mean time, begining to get me down a little bit that he is always hungry to the point he will cry for food so hopefully will get it sorted soon thanks again

Hello all im new to this but hoping someone can help, my son is 8 years old and was diagnosed at the age of 4 we have recently had his insulin changed to levemir and nova rapid insulins 4 injections a day only he is constantly hungry he eats as much as both me and my partner and then is asking...