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<blockquote data-quote="SophiaW" data-source="post: 122938" data-attributes="member: 13451"><p>Just to reassure you that the needles we use to inject insulin (if your son is type 1 and needs to inject) are much smaller and finer than the ones they use to draw blood. Jess doesn't mind the insulin injections at all, she barely feels them. Initially the finger prick tests took her a while to get used to, but their fingers do toughen up with time and now she doesn't mind the finger prick tests at all, actually quite often she will do her test herself without being asked to so that just shows how much she has got used to it. The diabetes nurse did tell me that when we were first struggling but I didn't believe her, I never thought we'd get to this stage but we did and fairly quickly.</p><p></p><p>Annually Jess has a diabetes review where bloods tests are taken for various testing, she hates that and it's quite a challenge for her to overcome her fear of needles on these occasions. She also had bad experiences when she was younger with them trying to take blood very unsuccessfully making it a long awful ordeal for her. For the annual blood taking we offer to treat her to a new toy if she can be brave and get through the test. Thankfully we've found a nurse in the adult section who has a knack of getting blood from Jess without a huge ordeal so we ask for her each year now and it's made things a lot easier for Jess. The staff at the children's ward were terrible, I never want to go there ever again.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if they will diagnose your son as diabetic. When Jess was diagnosed her readings were off the scale they were so high. You may have picked up his diabetes very early which is a good thing, or he may not be diabetic.</p><p></p><p>If they need to do a finger prick test on your son again, check that the lancet is set to about 1. You can adjust how deeply the lancet pricks, if they had the lancet set too deep it may have hurt him more than necessary. But initially it does sting a little until you get used to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SophiaW, post: 122938, member: 13451"] Just to reassure you that the needles we use to inject insulin (if your son is type 1 and needs to inject) are much smaller and finer than the ones they use to draw blood. Jess doesn't mind the insulin injections at all, she barely feels them. Initially the finger prick tests took her a while to get used to, but their fingers do toughen up with time and now she doesn't mind the finger prick tests at all, actually quite often she will do her test herself without being asked to so that just shows how much she has got used to it. The diabetes nurse did tell me that when we were first struggling but I didn't believe her, I never thought we'd get to this stage but we did and fairly quickly. Annually Jess has a diabetes review where bloods tests are taken for various testing, she hates that and it's quite a challenge for her to overcome her fear of needles on these occasions. She also had bad experiences when she was younger with them trying to take blood very unsuccessfully making it a long awful ordeal for her. For the annual blood taking we offer to treat her to a new toy if she can be brave and get through the test. Thankfully we've found a nurse in the adult section who has a knack of getting blood from Jess without a huge ordeal so we ask for her each year now and it's made things a lot easier for Jess. The staff at the children's ward were terrible, I never want to go there ever again. I don't know if they will diagnose your son as diabetic. When Jess was diagnosed her readings were off the scale they were so high. You may have picked up his diabetes very early which is a good thing, or he may not be diabetic. If they need to do a finger prick test on your son again, check that the lancet is set to about 1. You can adjust how deeply the lancet pricks, if they had the lancet set too deep it may have hurt him more than necessary. But initially it does sting a little until you get used to it. [/QUOTE]
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