Hello to All,
I would like to ask you all : how was the diagnosis of your T1D done?
For us, it was not very good, so I would like to know if what we went through is often observed or not.
My child who is now 12 yo, was diagnosed 6 years ago. As parents, we observed the classical symptoms: extreme thirst, going to the toilet all the time, irritability, loss of weight, sunk eyes. I could see my child was not well, so I looked in my family medical book and suspected my child had T1D. We took him to our GP, and decided first not to mention our suspiscion. But I told him that there was not one bed sheet, blanket, or towel dried in our house anymore, and that my child, at the age of 5, was drinking over 2.5 l of water per day. He suggested we should make a chart and give our kid some stickers if he would not have a wee during the night.
We then said to him we had thought about T1D, which he rejected. We asked for a blood test, he refused. We demanded a blood test, and he sent us to the lab. 4 adults sat on my screaming child and we managed to take a blood sample, whidh revealed a BSL of 22 half a day later. Our GP did not use a BSL test or a simple urine test, which would have given a fair idea about the problem in 20 seconds....So pointless to tell you I keep a horrible memory of this time.
I would give a 2 out of 20 to this GP...
What about your experience of T1D, either for yourselve or your child?
I would like to ask you all : how was the diagnosis of your T1D done?
For us, it was not very good, so I would like to know if what we went through is often observed or not.
My child who is now 12 yo, was diagnosed 6 years ago. As parents, we observed the classical symptoms: extreme thirst, going to the toilet all the time, irritability, loss of weight, sunk eyes. I could see my child was not well, so I looked in my family medical book and suspected my child had T1D. We took him to our GP, and decided first not to mention our suspiscion. But I told him that there was not one bed sheet, blanket, or towel dried in our house anymore, and that my child, at the age of 5, was drinking over 2.5 l of water per day. He suggested we should make a chart and give our kid some stickers if he would not have a wee during the night.
We then said to him we had thought about T1D, which he rejected. We asked for a blood test, he refused. We demanded a blood test, and he sent us to the lab. 4 adults sat on my screaming child and we managed to take a blood sample, whidh revealed a BSL of 22 half a day later. Our GP did not use a BSL test or a simple urine test, which would have given a fair idea about the problem in 20 seconds....So pointless to tell you I keep a horrible memory of this time.
I would give a 2 out of 20 to this GP...
What about your experience of T1D, either for yourselve or your child?