To think this is the start of type 1 diabetes

[NeuroSpicyCat]

Hand hold please.

My 13 year old son informed me tonight that he wet the bed last night.

This has never happened before.

His late father had Type 1 diabetes which started around this age.

My son also has a sore tummy (that comes and goes) and sore calves (that come and go).

He seems to have low mood also.

He's always been really thin.

My husband (his stepdad) is driving to A&E with him right now. I’m staying home with the other 4 children. (I can’t drive).

I’m autistic and scared. I’m so worried for him. AI said he is highly likely to be diagnosed given his symptoms and family history, and he’s likely to be urgently admitted to hospital.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

Exactly.

It will be a finger prick test it gives results immediately.

Surely you should have just booked a GP appointment to discuss your concerns and gone from there?
Why are you clogging up A+E? Is it an emergency? No it’s not.
People like you are the reason the NHS is struggling so much.

I am sick to death of people abusing the system.

@Pricelessadvice agree!

Yes highly improbable

It could have been DKA can kill a person.

If your child does show the symptoms of diabetes then it’s important to seek medical attention asap. OP’s DS doesn’t have diabetes symptoms though.

For countless other things too and it's not a classic symptom.

I hope your son is ok.

A few years ago people used to say Google is not medically trained. I think we need to remember that neither is AI and both can send us spiralling unnecessarily.

How humiliating for the son. Daft overreaction on the OP’s part.

Stomach PAIN can be a symptom. An occasional stomach ache that comes and goes as OP describes is not.

It can do ,my son went from feeling off in the morning to collapsing by 7 in the evening, he.was in critical care within an hour.

Aside from a stomache ache which is present in any number of other conditions there was no symptoms of DKA.

T2 is more hereditary than T1. Having a parent with T1 only increases your chances of having T1 by 1-9%.

I didn’t say l didn’t have a good GP. The norm for most of us is to try to ring in at 8am for a telephone consultation. Once all appointments are taken you’re signposted to A&E or walk in centres.

OP’s son was triaged and asked to wait to see a doctor. It was a two hour wait. If they had done any of the things you suggested the wait would likely have been much longer. Walking out of A&E after you have been asked to stay and told that more tests are likely is the stupidest of advice in the circumstances. A finger prick blood glucose test only gives your levels at the time it’s taken. An HbA1c gives a more accurate overall picture and DS was in the best place to get it, and any diagnosis as a result.

That's why patients are to go through 111, either by phone or online. Or contact the GP during normal hours. As we all have to share NHS care, it's annoying when people are feckless and OP is being obtuse saying in every other post 'AI made me do it'. AI diagnosed my child.

I am all for listening to your gut feeling where health is ragged but here she blindly trust AI and uses shared resources that are already underfunded based on what some random AI tells her. I feel sorry for the doctors and nurses who have give to uni for years and years and have to put up with 'AI told me'.

I don't think posters understand just how dangerous type 1 diabetes can be it csn be fatal if left untreated so its better feeling a bit daft than the alternative!

And your medical qualifications would be ? If OP had genuine concerns that T1D was possible then she did the right thing. It’s absolutely not the same thing as people who regularly use their A&E as an alternative to GP for minor ailments.

I would not sit in A&E at 2am with a well child when the concern for which I visited had been all but ruled out.

He wet the bed .

Stop using AI to make medical diagnoses! From your description, this was not a medical emergency at all.

And what about Gemini's medical qualification?

But OP’s DS didn’t have any symptoms of T1D?

Those saying she overreacted, type one diabetes killed a little girl called Lyla Story from Hull. She was diagonsed by her GP with tonilistisis in May 2025 16 hours later she very sadly passed away in her sleep next her to parents from DKA.

op didnt overreact, if anyone ever suspects type one its always ALWAYS best to get it checked out.

She has wasted ED time by using AI to make a diagnosis and then freaking out about a well child who wet the bed once!