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Thanks, I guess it was a relief that it was diabetes for you..... You mention keytones. The other strange thing was that my son had no keytones. But this very high reading for long term sugar. Would anyone know why that would be?!

Thanks for all these replies, extremely helpful. My son is coping really well generally, but he's putting weight on really quickly and I want to make sure he isn't hungry but also slow this gain down. He doesn't eat junk, which is a good start. But he's eating more frequently. I'd fill him up...

That's really interesting, thank you. Could you explain a bit, how having the wrong levels of insulin can lead to overeating please? Luckily this kid is the least fussy eater of them all, so I would be able to make changes I'm sure. He has a good diet as it is but since diagnosis has been...

Ah right, thanks for that. Diabetic nurse said his case was odd, hence the word wierd. Sorry. Every medic that saw him were surprised he weren't flat on his back. I suppose I'm hoping it's not type 1 because it's so hard seeing him with all this kit and coping with all the admin and planning and...

I'm concerned that the medical folk dealing with my son's probably type one diabetes are hoping for the rest of his insulin producing cells to die, to make management easier. Is there any way to preserve them or boost them? I'm a sceptical type of person and have avoided medical intervention and...