My daughter was diagnosed in January 2019, just after her 10th birthday. She will be 13 on New Year’s Eve. Lately I’ve become very concerned about her sleeping. I have difficulty waking her in the mornings and she’s often late for school. Every day, she has a nap after school and has to be woken for her dinner. Sometimes she goes back to sleep after dinner and we have to wake her for supper. At weekends she seems to sleep all day. She is difficult to wake and often seems confused on waking. She has admitted to me that she’s fallen asleep in class on a number of occasions.
In the last few months her control hasn’t been as good as it had previously been. She’d had a growth spurt and started her periods and her glucose levels were very high. At her last clinic in September her hba1c was 74 and her team were very concerned. She’s on Tresiba and Fiasp - we increased her Tresiba dose and adjusted her carb ratios and, while she still has highs, the situation has improved.
I’m really worried by how tired she is all the time. I don’t know if it’s linked to her diabetes or whether she has another health issue, such as thyroid? My husband thinks it’s ‘just her age’ but it doesn’t seem normal to me. Has anyone experienced anything similar?
In the last few months her control hasn’t been as good as it had previously been. She’d had a growth spurt and started her periods and her glucose levels were very high. At her last clinic in September her hba1c was 74 and her team were very concerned. She’s on Tresiba and Fiasp - we increased her Tresiba dose and adjusted her carb ratios and, while she still has highs, the situation has improved.
I’m really worried by how tired she is all the time. I don’t know if it’s linked to her diabetes or whether she has another health issue, such as thyroid? My husband thinks it’s ‘just her age’ but it doesn’t seem normal to me. Has anyone experienced anything similar?