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KellyMBl

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Hello,

I’m after some help. My 14 year old daughter has struggled with headaches and vomiting in the mornings. It often wakes her - she will often have episodes of feeling sick / headaches / tiredness throughout the day and it’s often random. I have suspected it’s to do with her blood sugar for a while now.

I’ve said to the GP I’ll monitor it at home for two weeks and we can discuss. This is a day as follows. Could someone let me know ideal times to test - I’m guessing the waking / before evening meal and after.

Monday
Dinner 6pm
6.10pm 7.6
7:15pm 11.7
9pm - 6.8

Tuesday
7am - 6.5
5pm - 5.3
Dinner 7pm
9pm 8.1

Like I said at the moment it’s a test to see where we are,

Thanks in advance
 
For the best information I’d suggest testing on waking, before each meal and 2 hrs after each meal (noting what it was). You could add in 1 hr and 3hrs if you want loads of info and have enough strips. We can’t diagnose but this page give guidances about what to expect https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html. Remember glucometers are not precise instruments so take levels with a little pinch of salt And consider what the meals consisted of. It may be nothing to do with glucose though. Post viral effects, stress, migraine, Vitamins, iron, ferritin and hormones could all be suspect too.
 
KellyMBl said:
I’m after some help. My 14 year old daughter has struggled with headaches and vomiting in the mornings. It often wakes her - she will often have episodes of feeling sick / headaches / tiredness throughout the day and it’s often random.
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Just to make sure, can she be pregnant?
Parents do not know everything.

Headaches and vomiting can be symptoms of undiagnosed diabetes, but it's associated with numbers in the high teens or higher.

If she has been feeling this poorly for a while, has she been to the GP for a blood draw to check on the most common culprits?
If not, ask for it, and ask for a hba1c to be added because you're worried about diabetes.
 
Hi @KellyMBl and welcome to the forums.

I'm sorry your daughter is unwell. Is there a particular reason why you think her issues might be blood sugar related?

I think the others have already made helpful suggestions but, if you are doing blood tests, I'd also suggest doing a spot test when your daughter feels particularly unwell....?

As a childhood diagnosed T1 with a T1 mother, I was diagnosed very early (just had to wake in the night asking for water for two nights running to get my mother to have me tested) but I've also experienced the other side of the coin with my own two children,

Was I worried that they might become diabetic? Yes I was , though even with one T1 parent the chance is still pretty low. I used to keep a tub of urine testing strips in the bathroom and test their urine if they seemed "off". While this doesn't tell you much (sugar only passes into urine when your blood sugar is over 10mmol/L) it would certainly have picked up any drastic increases of blood sugar.

I am just wondering how cooperative your daughter is feeling about repeated finger prick blood tests and whether you should have the GP do one set of blood draws to rule out the obvious first....

Good luck, I hope you get a diagnosis soon.
 
KellyMBl said:
Monday
Dinner 6pm
6.10pm 7.6
7:15pm 11.7
9pm - 6.8

Tuesday
7am - 6.5
5pm - 5.3
Dinner 7pm
9pm 8.1
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Can't diagnose anything here, on the face of it the readings I've highlighted in red are the only ones I'd question.
There can be large variations in meter readings & how clean your hands are before a test.
Hormones & stress at that age can play a huge factor,
Ask your doctor for a HbA1c test & go from there, it's like a 3 month average of blood sugar.
 
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