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Hi All, apologies for the rant...my son's latest hba1c was 6.9 he is 11 years old. Very happy with that. Now the but ...15 months into this condition and I am feeling fed up, angry, and keep wondering why? I go through the motions of everyday life, try to be positive...but all I think is...

Hi, my son age 11 is on a pump, and has been running high for the last 4 hrs. Corrected via pump. No joy. Cannula changed. No joy. Injected correction. No joy. Changed the whole set. No joy. Increased his temporary basal...slow reduction in number. Feeling :(:confused::mad: Any suggestions...

So my son is on a pump (since August) today is the day we needed to change his cannula, he was running high just before I did this so I put it down to the cannula being old. I change the cannula and test an hr later he's coming down verrrrry slowly ...so we opt for an injection and change the...

Hi there, please can someone explain why after breakfast my 11year old type 1 son feels terrible. He feels shaky, sick, no energy. He doesn't have a high sugar breakfast. Feels slight better with protein. But why does this happen????. He is on an insulin pump since 1 month ago but felt the...

Hi, Today my 10 year old had a hypo. We are carb counting. We treated the hypo the same way as we always do. EXCEPT... This hypo refused to shift. I treated it with juice, then coke, then lucozade, then some more, a few more repetitions of the above, spoon full of honey, glucogel...after 14...

Hi, I am trying to decide what pump we should go for my son. He is 10. Does anyone know what the cgm feature is like on the veo? As its only the Veo that has a cgm. How accurate is it? 2 sites or 1? Pros and cons. Its a choice between the veo and accu chek. My head hurts from reading. Any...

Hi, My son (diagnosed in Dec 2012 type 1) is running a temp and naturally his Blood sugars are matching the high temp. Apart from keeping an eye on Ketones, if his blood sugars are high 2 hrs post meal do I keep correcting them throughout the day? what about during the night? He is eating...

Hi, we have been refused a place in a secondary school that was our first choice for our 10 year old boy (diagnosed type 1 in December 2012. A few factors to help paint the picture: 1. At the time of applying We were not diagnosed. So our criteria is different from original request. 2. We are...

As a mother of a beautiful 10 year old boy (diagnosed type 1 on 101212) my heart is broken. I feel so selfish that it's about how I feel, what I want, what i need. Will I ever cope?