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Hi all, My 9 year old granddaughter has recently been diagnosed with type 1 but for a coup,e of years has been treated for an under-active thyroid, hypermobility and migraines. She is taking thyroxine for the thyroid and propranolol for her migraines, but recently she is getting headaches again...

Thank you, I try my best to be all the support she needs, but it's difficult when you have 2 more to look after ! Your absolutely right, I don't know how she feels, and as I am the closest person to her, then this teacher has no chance of understanding ! There was obviously a problem I just...

Thank you everyone for your thoughts. I know the pen is being stored correctly, and as far as I know it is working correctly, as this did not happen the day before. My granddaughter has some emotional problems and is struggling at school, she has already got an underactive thyroid, hyper...

Hi Fob123, usually it is only at school, she is not having a happy time at school, it's always been the same, she has a lot of emotional problems, due to her parents, that's why her and her sister and brother live with us. There is not much sympathy towards children with emotional problems...

Hi Noblehead, love the name. Yes a correction should have been administered along with the food insulin, she should of had 11 in total, but I can't see that she had that much and her levels to go even higher !

Is a real worry for her, and us, she and her brother and sister live with us, and as she has not long been diagnosed with type 1 everything is a worry, and her levels have been quite stable, they have never been that high since she left hospital, so it is a real worry ! I know she has no faith...

Hi Natalie, She has a Novo Echo pen, which should record the last amount, but for some reason it doesn't ! Plus they keep that one at school, and they way things are with them, they would make life very difficult if I asked to see it !! I don't think she could have got hold of sweets as the...

Yes she did. She thinks that the teacher did not push the button that releases the insulin. The teacher did push the needle into her arm, but she started counting to 10 before she pushed the button, and my granddaughter kept telling her but she didn't listen ! Eventually she did push the...

Hi Everyone, I have never used a forum before, so if I make mistakes, please excuse me! My granddaughter who is 9 has just been diagnosed with type 1, and as much as she is coping ok with it, we have just come across a problem at school. When she went back to school after having a week in...