Is this diabetes??

[Flossie44]

My dd (15) has been getting severe headaches after eating, for a few weeks now. She’s quite fiesty too.
She’s been asleep a lot earlier than normal.

(My youngest has health issues so I have a lot of kit at home already).

Tonight I checked her blood sugar levels….they were 16.3 on the first try. I made her wash her hands and try again. They were 11.3.
We all did ours a couple of weeks ago and dd’s were 10.6.

I have tonight also dipped her wee. She has ketones that are black on the chart. (The scale goes up to dark purple).

Obviously I will go to the gp first thing tomorrow but is this diabetes??

Sounds like it to me- very strong possibility. Get her straight to A&E would be my advice.

Fingers crossed it's something new serious

Really hope you are at hospital with her, and everything is under control.

Thank you. Went to gp and her blood sugar levels were normal 🤷🏻‍♀️
She’s so symptomatic. Headache, nausea, tiredness. Weeing more.

She had bloods taken there and then and we were told they’d be back at 5:30 this evening. We haven’t heard results yet. Were told it would be tonight or tomorrow!

The gp said she wouldn’t expect them to be high last night and normal today. But they were! And we’ve checked our own machine on others in the family and it was normal. So machine fine!!