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Excellent well done Smiley!! Fab idea to swap with friends and a good attitude towards your sugar intake! x

cld it be he just needs more insulin due to the fact he's older, eating more and growing, puberty etc???? I know my son is much younger but he tends to get those symptoms when he needs to increase his insulin dosage... He is only on 2 injections a day tho of a mixed analogue insulin so may b a...

Hi there I hope things are going OK for u both - in the very beginning its a bit like ur constantly running up hill with no sign at all of the horizon!! My son started school in Sept04 and was diagnosed Mar05... Our school wldnt do his bm's Which quite irritated me as they claimed it was due...

Just wonder how u got on with this ??? First time my son went to a friends for tea I was really worried - I put together a factsheet to give to the parents about what he couldn't eat rather than what he could and how to manage hypos etc... As for meals I dont carb count so that wasnt an isse...

We do the same sort of thing - he always says I cant go trick or treating cos I'm diabetic and cant eat the sweets!! To which we say EVERY yr that yes u can have the sweets but not all at once!!! We do the same and keep everyones sweets in a jar which get doled out for hypos and treats after...

Sophia this sounds so much like how my sons symtoms went at the exact same age!! lol...Except for ending up going into hosp due to the rash he developed! And yes the appetite after diagnosis was unbeleivable!

Wow!! 2 diagnoses within a day of eachother - that must have been an absolute nightmare!! It was bad enough having 1 child diagnosed at 4!! For us my son had a really easy natural labour and was breast fed till 9mnths and they say if ur born by section ur more likely to get it and breast fed...

Bought one for my 9yr old son (for his birthday) who has had type 1 since he was 4yrs old ... I have to say the machine is fabulous and its the first time in 5yrs he has been eager to test his sugar!!! The machine plugs into the Nintendo DS and comes with a DS game - it downloads points u earn...

I'm really struggling with this one! H usually has the regular flu jab each yr tho I havent booked this yrs yet and am really really unsure about the swine flu thing especially as it hasnt been around very long and the side effects and risks etc are not highly publicised... maybe due to lack of...

My son was 4 when he was diagnosed with type 1 = he's 8 now and has done his own BM's since he was about 5 1/2yrs and then started to do his own injection at 6 but then got in a bit of a pickle about doing it after a while so we went back to us doing it until he was 7 and then we explained how...

Reading those quotes makes me feel a little better about my son's appualing hba1c on his last appt! Its over 10 at the mo - we really struggle to get his insulin right especially thru the colder weather - he tends to spike up and down all the time its really frustrating - but it seem s we're...

Loving this thread ! And making a mental note of some of the great things about being diabetic for when my son gets one of those - its so not fair moments! Especially the queue thing! We waiting ages in legoland once to get on a ride - almost got to the front when H had a hypo and we hadnt...

Hi Jenny thanks for your post Sounds like life is even more challenging for you! Difficult enough with lo being only 2 1/2 without the diabetes and downs too! Looking forward to sharing the good and the bad!! CM X

thanks Ken Just been having a nosey round the youth club and seen a few helpful posts already - looking forward to using this fab resource for my little man and meeting a few new people too!! x

hi there - I'm new here and jst wanted to say I really feel for you with such a little one being diagnosed with type1 My son was diagnosed at 4yrs and we struggled in the beginning to get our head around the whole thing but can't imagine how scarey your time has been getting ur little one...

HI there I am a mum of a type 1 diabetic who is 8yrs old and has been diagnosed for 4yrs I also have a very awkward wont b told type 2 grandmother !lol! Dont know what is worse?!?!?! Just want to say a quick hello and hope to meet some other parents of a diabetic child and even grandchildren...