Hi all i haven't chatted on here for a while as up until yesterday I was under the impression that my daughter Megan's diabetes was well controlled . Meg had her routine hospital appointment yesterday , before had she had usual obs carried out including Hbc level. As we enter her doctors office i see a look of dismay on her doctors face and the other two nurses present. We were then told that her level has shot up again. I puzzled asked how this could be possible as Megan's blood readings have been fantastic lately . So they ask for Megan's recording book have a look through ( most of these results they know as I email them through once a fortnight ) then they ask for Megan's monitor . The nurse looks through and tells me the monitor readings aren't the same as what meg has wrote in book . I'm still puzzled and looking at my daughter thinking any minute they will tell me this is a terrible mistake . However they don't tell me there is a mistake Megan has infact been falsifying her readings for the last two months. On closer inspection of her meter once we got home i could see that Megan at times doesn't check her bloods at all other days its once or twice a day all readings are high between 22 and off the scale . Although meg has had a touchy start to her diabetes i honestly thought she has cracked it. Day after day she tells me her readings and I presumingly see her checking her bloods and taking her insulin before meals as I am in the same room as her whilst she is doing so. She must of however mastered the art of miming doing this.
Now is this normal for her age group ? I am racked with worry and guilt that ive allowed this to happen and concern I'm a single parent so have no input from her dad and just lost as to what is going so wrong . I know I now need to take readings from her monitor rather then book know I need to be keeping a closer eye but don't know why it happened in first place. Megs reply was i don't know . Any help would be great .
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