My daughter wont take her insulin

Hello, I did the same when I was younger, I also noticed I lost a lot of weight then I did it for that purpose. I had an amazing doctor who took me back on the right track. In all honesty, the teenage years are the hardest but also the years you start to really understand implications (I took it as a learning curve), she will be ok, but if you notice her loosing lots of weight, please ask a specialist to talk to her. She will be ok.

Annie Mum to Ella said:

I have a now 21 year old daughter who has had diabetes since 4. Always had problems with injections - I did it for her (even going into school) till she was 18. Then she wanted to start going on holiday with friends and that was our turning point. For 2 years previously I had found a device - available on NHS - called Insujet. There are no needles and it works with pressure. It changed her life. No dealings eith putting needle in - and removing safely. No squeamishness over needles. No declarations at airports which embarrassed her.
It is so easy to do. She always would only do in her legs and was getting lumps. Now she will just lift up her top and do in stomach too. It is unbelievable the change it made. Really easy to dial up
You do feel the pressure but no needle pain. She has now taken control FINALLY of her insulin admin and her levels are so much better because of it. She had a fear of pulling out the needle as once one snapped off in her leg so understandable. Also the stigma of a teenager doing needles. This has taken all of that away.
Google them (Insujet) or ask your GP - everything on her repeat prescription.

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Yippee ! hurray for Insujet .

Alerted to this post again by Hooha - do you use Insujet ?
Another thing my daughter got very down when they moved her to minimum 4 injections so I fought for her to use Actrapid (Humulin S is similar) which is a slower fast-acting than novorapid (it is gentler so less highs and lows - lasts 8 hours) so covers her for lunch and snacks until evening meal (all day). Even then she sometimes doesn’t need Actrapid in evening. Still takes Levemir morning and evening but it is amazing how just doing her Insujet morning and evening makes her feel that diabetes is not taking up every moment of her life. Her hba1c is better than when she rebelled against having injections every time she ate.
she will take novorapid of there is unexplained highs and she needs to get levels down quickly.
It is not for everyone but teenagers are troubled by so many things and being different is a tough one. It got us through and she is still on that regime. Her consultant at the time said medicines had moved on and she needed to do 4 injections with levemir and Novorapid. My argument was she was happy to use Levemir and novorapid at times but old doesn’t necessarily mean worse. We have had paracetamol for years and everyone still uses it. So if a certain insulin improves someone’s life why not do it. And Actrapid did that for my daughter. Don’t know what she would do if they took it off the market.