My 12 year old has just been diagnosed!

[diabetesmum]

Hi Findacure,
Nice to 'meet' you - another mum with 2 type 1 kids, there aren't that many of us about!
Sue

 

[lionrampant]

I spoke to someone on another forum and they told me to try heating it up a little before using it. it seems to have worked because she did not complain last night for the first time in ages. she was on novomix 70/30 41 units on a morning and 30 on a teatime before they changed her over to the
three injections we could not keep her bg level at teatime down, but she was having hypos at dinnertime. now most of her bg levels are within 4-9 so she needs all the insulin she is on.

You do not and I mean bloody well do not expose insulin to heat, nor freeze it for that matter (especially don't freeze it actually).

Get it changed. Stinging is a known side effect of Lantus in some people - she's allergic to it. She can be switched to Levemir with the greatest of ease.

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I'm sorry to be so visceral in my phrasing, but it scares the hell out of me when this sort of info starts getting passed around.