Hi All, I know I should ask the doctor but we will talk to him in 6 weeks and would like to be ready then to discuss this with him....
My son was diagnosed only on Saturday; discharged from hospital today. When diagnosed his BG was over 30.
HBA1C was 11% (or 97 mmol/mol (normal between 20-42).
He is now on fixed doses 9 units of insulin before meals and 32 units of Lantus before night.
He is 15 years old, 66kg.
From reading this forum I believe that his Lantus dose is too high is not it?
Do you think it is because he is newly diagnosed or because he is the teenager and still growing?
I hope this can be lowered in the future, however I have concerns why is Lantus so high?
I would rather have his body to 'try to work' rather then being on high doses from the beginning?
What are your experiences and thoughts on this please?
For how long would we have to be on fixed doses? is it until honey moon period will be over?
Another question is - how we can be sure that he has T1 and not T2? We have insulin resistance in our family/at least 5 people
but not T1 at all. They did not check his insulin at A&E and gave him inslune straight away. How can we check that he has T1 and not insulin resistance?
Thank you very much in advance for every opinion!
My son was diagnosed only on Saturday; discharged from hospital today. When diagnosed his BG was over 30.
HBA1C was 11% (or 97 mmol/mol (normal between 20-42).
He is now on fixed doses 9 units of insulin before meals and 32 units of Lantus before night.
He is 15 years old, 66kg.
From reading this forum I believe that his Lantus dose is too high is not it?
Do you think it is because he is newly diagnosed or because he is the teenager and still growing?
I hope this can be lowered in the future, however I have concerns why is Lantus so high?
I would rather have his body to 'try to work' rather then being on high doses from the beginning?
What are your experiences and thoughts on this please?
For how long would we have to be on fixed doses? is it until honey moon period will be over?
Another question is - how we can be sure that he has T1 and not T2? We have insulin resistance in our family/at least 5 people
but not T1 at all. They did not check his insulin at A&E and gave him inslune straight away. How can we check that he has T1 and not insulin resistance?
Thank you very much in advance for every opinion!