Dn just diagnosed with diabetes

[supermama212]

niece (12) just diagnosed with diabetes. In hospital :( they are teaching her how to use insulin. she went to A&E after her throat was burning - she drank orange cordial- what could cause this? Blood test confirmed. im in york she is as well - at the same hospital my DD just home from!! Has anyone been/ is in this position? thank you - its just so

ahhh paddy! niece says that all the calorie counting is the hardest bit. just the inections and blood tests. oxy thank u if i have anything to ask i will x

oblomov not oxy goodness me! its the pain from my foot...

Hi Oblomov :)

Supermama..in time she will get used to a certain meal being a certain number of units...that bit def improves will experience :)

she has tried ( and failed!!) to explain carb counting to me for when she comes here and i cook. how r u paddy? i just want to say thank u for being such a source of knowledge and someone to lean on! :) :) :)

niece has been admitted to hospital :( she has a sicky bug. is throwing insulin up and her food so it wont work. they arent coming this wk/end to see me, me and dd going up to them on the train to see her and my family. how we will manage with me on crutches i am looking forward to know! will keep updated, will do it via phone so if grammar/ spelling is bad sorry in advance!

:( it won't be that she's throwing the insulin up...when you're sick the body produces adrenalin which pushes the blood sugar up...stomach bugs are a NIGHTMARE when you have diabetes...if one of my kids come down with them (thankfully they hardly ever do) i have to let DH deal with most of it so as not to catch it!

As she's only relatively early days into diabetes they'll want to be extra careful..they may put her on a glucose and insulin drip till it settles

Hope you manage ok on the train..for goodness sake don't fall down and break the other foot!!

i managed on train. still 1 foot working!!
at the hospital, she is on drip :( as early days she will probs be in around a week. keep u updated

she wasn't in hosp very long at diagnosis compared to me when i was diagnosed in the mid 80s...she will be fine...sick days are hard to handle at the best of times...has she got ketones?

she has ketones paddy! they think she will be home by tommorow - dishcharged.
i go to york again tonight -home sweet home!

plenty of water to flush them out...you have to be v careful with ketones and feeling sick :/

be careful on the ice!

She has been discharged this am. Paddy, she Is drinking lots of water. How will that help the ketones????

paddy saw dr this am at fracture clinic. Need to go for tests as I might have calcium deficiency....

it helps you to flush them out of your system..along with the excess sugar..both are very dehydrating...how high did she go?

is the calcium deficiency why you have broken it so badly?

it could be why i broke it so badly paddy!!
i don`t know when my appt is but hopefully in next two to three weeks.

Niece is still off school, DR says she should be ok to go back thursday. She is resting at home - watching telly etc

highest she went was 5.9!!!! is that bad?

Nah 5.9 is completely normal..how strange...if she was sick they prob needed to monitor things...how high was she at diagnosis?

how's your foot feeling now?

5.9 is brilliant - just right!

i think she was somewhere around 2.1 i cant remember ...
my foots feeling better, i am going for tests on friday... I hope i have not got calcium deficiency. Anyone here with calcium deficiency??

2.1 is seriously hypo - too little blood sugar and has to be treated by eating glucose and followed by some slow carbohydrate like wholemeal bread.

today she went back to school and the doctor has asked her to go tonight to check her bloods at the hospital just to make sure she is better now.

i have got calcium deficency, i am on vitamin k tablets - 2 three times a day :(

I don't want to scare you. And I really hope i don't, but ....
every diabetic functions at a different level. I have met diabetics who have never been lower than ......... BG of 2 or so.
some have never had nightime hypos. My hypos have been known to be horrific, not dissimilar to an epeleptic fit.
Yet, sometimes at 2.3 I am so low, I slur my words and have trouble opening a bottle of lucozade.
Yet at 1.9 I was cooking a roast, serving glasses of red wine to 4 guests and chatting away, so much that even dh didn't even notice i was low (and he spots everything!!) and I was so busy carving lamb, doing roast pots, etc, that I didn't even notice I was low., It was only when I stood still for one millisecond, to stir the gravy, that I suddenly realised i was very low. Did a test and was shocked to see it below 2, at 1.9.
So, we are all differnet and can all cope with difrent levels.
Hope that hasn't scared you too much, and has actually helped.

it has helped not scared me! she fuctions at 1.9 as she was cooking at school the other day and it was only when she stood still getting equiqmet out for icing that she realised she was low, she was 1.9 - friend didn't realise either

she was 1.5 last night and was still working - doing homework, taking dog for a work.
sis notices these things and didn`t!
whereas when she is 2.4 she realises and cannot function!

You guys are spot on! My son was complaining because he had to get out of the swimming pool when hypo and the teacher wouldn't let him back in - he gets very belligerent when he's hypo. He's had a couple of Hypos in the twos at the end of this week, so we 'ran him' higher yesterday to ensure tht his liver is getting a chance to recover.

We're hoping to get a dog soon and will train it as a hypo dog if we can (got a friend with one, so lots of good advice).

they are traing donald ( the dog!) to be a hypo dog!
i love the dogs name!

Love it!