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Thank you so much Si, his diabetes specialist has now agreed that he could go on a DAFNE course as it would be very much to his benefit to do so. All we need now is dates, and hopefully this will help him focus. Lol at 'i was that teenager once '! Sadie x

Thanks dragon girl, will look into that.

Hi Jenandkhaleb and thank you so much for your detailed and caring reply. For some reason when we got the letter it was missed so I only opened it late last night and I thought 10.4 was a really bad level. I still need to tell my son but of course he is still in bed being a teenager! Yes he may...

Hi all My son who is just sixteen, was diagnosed with type one diabetes eighteen months ago. His hb1ac levels were fine the first couple of times, ie 7, 7.5 etc. But the latest thing we have got is a letter saying that it has now gone up to 10.4, meaning that his diabetes is poorly controlled...

If you use a diabetes pump to regulate type 1 diabetes, do you need to move the siting of the pump every few days? My son is debating going on to a pump and he has his review tomorrow, but we would like to have the correct information when we go in, and cant find anything definitive on this...

i agree with all those who say Zak should have his stuff with him. my son was 14 when diagnosed, and keeps snacks and his pen and blood kit with him, with extra snacks kept in his year head's office. periodically we top them up and he's had a year like this with no probs. the meters and pens...

Hi there, my son who is now 15, was diagnosed just over a year ago. we have never heard of dafne but he was basically told about carb counting, varying the insulin doses and just eating as normal, only avoiding sweet drinks and sweets themselves. is this the basis of the dafne system? when we...

hi sue glad you are getting your diabetes under control. i am a mum of a boy with type one, and i had not before realised that people with type two were not automatically given meters and test strips. i think this is scandalous. i also wanted to point you in the direction of a brilliant forum...