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Hi it’s my disabled son (19)that has diabetes and we are only a couple of months into it. We struggled to get levels down but with medication and diet we got there, he is always in 5-6 1/2 range. My query is: Halloween last night and son hasn’t ate a sweet since diagnose! BUT he had a candy...

He has had cliclazide for two weeks now with no change and testing four times daily just now and have been checking Him before bed as worried about him not recognising anything unusual when in bed. His average bs for the week is 17. More worried about the high levels !

Thanks for the replies, guess it's a waiting game for now. I do have the carbs sorted so we will see what the next few days bring with his meds been increased. He is a great eater and eats all so that part has been easy. Think it's time to pester the docs on Monday for a type diagnose!

Hi how soon after diagnose did your bs reduce, did it take a few weeks etc, we are getting no - where, son is 19 and learning disabled so I'm controlling his food intake and have lowered his carb in take. Meds just keep going up and up! Two weeks in and I'm confused! Think we are heading to...

Thanks azure I will ask about this! I was rather confused that they wouldn't say which it was!

Should say they kept him in hospital for 24 hours and sent us home with meds.

He is over weight 11 stone and only 5 ft 3. He has been this weight for years and I put it down to his thyroid which he receives medication for. We have had no sudden weight loss! And no noticeable increase in drinking and peeing. He is up on a night anyways with bowel problems so I wouldn't...

Thanks for replies, he was picked up because I took him to doctor for something else and he had some bloods taken? Got a call that evening to take him to a &e. We do not have a type 1 or 2 diagnose just that he is def diabetic, don't think they want to say yet. I have reduced his carb intake and...

Hi my son is being monitored ( now two weeks), he has not been given a diagnose of type 1 or 2 yet. His blood sugars aren't coming down so they have prescribed metformin along with his gliclazide for the next week to see if comes down. His bs are between 15-23 just now. Those that have a type 1...