my daughter is almost 15, when she has her period her pump is put on a different program. Me and her endo noticed her numbers changed when she has her period. She is on the omnipod pump, so we had to name the program, funny story though, my daughter had an attitude that day at the endos office. So i told ther doc to name the program “fred”, well now her 17 yr old brother knows that when she on her “fred program” she is very moody. So much for privacy. Where are u located?
I love feeling like i’m not alone with this group.
Mia, you are not alone in your feelings, I still cry a little everyday, but keep chugging on because we don’t have a choice, Hang in there, Sending you big hugs. We are the only family in our town with a child with Type 1 so I know how alone feels…I am very thankful for the great friends I’ve made here, they are awesome and are great sounding boards. We always seem to be battling highs or lows with our son, thankfully at 7 years old, he feels “shaky” when he is low, so we know to check him. We just switched our treatment plan to 3 injections a day to see if we can get better control, so far I’m not seeing much difference. Hoping to start the pump this summer… Take care.
Hi there.
It ain’t easy raising kids with D. Especially in the beginning, lots of trial and error, discouraging a lot of the time. My wife used to take the readings as a personal reflection of our failure to manage our kids. I have type 1 and we parent 2 type one kids. I hope you are doing well, the numbers will stabilize with lots of tracking, measuring, and analyzing. This site is great for support.
Take care.
http://www.three2treat.com
Thanks to all of you for posting. It is so up setting but hopefully things will stabilize soon. Hate this for her.
I agree too. When I was first diagnosed, I was testing 8-10 times a day, and 11 years later, still test OFTEN. Rarely do I only test 4 times. My standing orders from every doc have always been to test morning, bedtime, before each meal, and before exercise. Throwing in a post meal check randomly and if I happen to get up at night, check then. I wonder at insurance companies that will only allow for a max of 4 strips a day. (how about the strip errors?) And that the ADA would recommed that. Especially when you are trying to discern if lows are a result of carb ratios, or too much background insulin, you need more then just pre-meal and bedtime sugars.
Oh, and I forgot that at first diagnosis, I was told to test when I felt low, and 15 minutes later. (to ensure the low was adequately treated)
Hate this for you too, mom! Hugs!
This is almost exactly what we do. My 10 year old son does have a CGM though, so sometimes the check is just a “look at the CGM check,” but it still happens. Then if he’s lower than 100 or higher than about 180, we actually check and correct (but have to check again like you said) but if he’s in the dream range of about 120-160 I go to sleep and forget about it. Unless of course it was a crazy day for one reason or another.
She is on Lantus and Dr. was raising every couple of days 2-3 units. Just started her on Novolog tonight 6 units for after dinner.