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my son is diagnosed with diabetes. T1
i feel so sad can’t deal with it please advice me .
i am in shock ..
 
Hi and welcome.

So sorry to hear about your son's diagnosis. How old is he and how is he managing? It is a shock to all of us when It happens and it is totally normal to feel overwhelmed and even grief, but it does get easier with time and experience I can assure you and a lot of it rapidly becomes second nature. Not sure if you have passed your test to drive a car, but when you first learn to drive you have to consciously think about everything like steering and changing gear and indicating and looking in the mirror, but once you have been driving for a while you start to do these things automatically and it is the same with diabetes. You find a routine with it and whilst it can be frustrating at times and need more thought and planning to do things, it will not prevent your son from achieving his ambitions (unless he is set on being an astronaut). There are even airline pilots who are Type 1 and our previous Prime Minister and some top level sports people, so lots of role models for your son to seek inspiration from.

Which insulin's is he on and how long ago was he diagnosed? Do you have any technology like Freestyle Libre to help you manage his levels? There are such fantastic advances in technology these days that I am sure diabetes will become much easier to manage in the next 10 years. There are already people who have insulin pumps which receive readings from sensors and adjust insulin to keep them in range. It is not perfect but it's all very clever.

Anyway, just wanted to reach out and offer you some support and comfort and hope. Hang in there it really does get easier and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
 
rebrascora said:
Hi and welcome.

So sorry to hear about your son's diagnosis. How old is he and how is he managing? It is a shock to all of us when It happens and it is totally normal to feel overwhelmed and even grief, but it does get easier with time and experience I can assure you and a lot of it rapidly becomes second nature. Not sure if you have passed your test to drive a car, but when you first learn to drive you have to consciously think about everything like steering and changing gear and indicating and looking in the mirror, but once you have been driving for a while you start to do these things automatically and it is the same with diabetes. You find a routine with it and whilst it can be frustrating at times and need more thought and planning to do things, it will not prevent your son from achieving his ambitions (unless he is set on being an astronaut). There are even airline pilots who are Type 1 and our previous Prime Minister and some top level sports people, so lots of role models for your son to seek inspiration from.

Which insulin's is he on and how long ago was he diagnosed? Do you have any technology like Freestyle Libre to help you manage his levels? There are such fantastic advances in technology these days that I am sure diabetes will become much easier to manage in the next 10 years. There are already people who have insulin pumps which receive readings from sensors and adjust insulin to keep them in range. It is not perfect but it's all very clever.

Anyway, just wanted to reach out and offer you some support and comfort and hope. Hang in there it really does get easier and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
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thank you for your support he is on Nova Rapid
with meals ,and long acting at night .
 
Hi and welcome. My daughter was diagnosed 2 years ago just before her 9th birthday. It takes time to adjust and get your head around the daily practicalities. You will all adjust but it takes time and is very difficult in those early weeks.

Is he home or in hospital?
 
How old is your son? My daughter was diagnosed at age 6 and has just turned 15 so we are approaching 9 years of this. It really does get easier with time and will start to become second nature after a few months. I presume the diagnosis is recent, you sound like you are still in shock, yes it is a life changing diagnosis and you have to grieve, but take it one step at a time, learn what you need to do and there is really no reason why he can’t continue to eat all his favourite foods, go to parties, carry on with all his hobbies and so on. It just takes a little bit more planning, not very easy to be spontaneous any more and you do have to carry quite a lot of stuff around with you all the time. But my daughter now says she can’t even remember being able to just sit down and eat without having to do sums and insulin doses, it’s just part of life for us now. Yes we still get it wrong occasionally but you just deal with it and move on, and we still occasionally get days where we get a bit fed up with it all and don’t want to bother with it any more (obviously not an option!), but those days get fewer and further between. Keep asking questions, you’ll get there because you have to 🙂
 
Hi @eman@, welcome to the forum.

It is a massive shock when your child is diagnosed and it takes time to get used to. The good news is that it does get easier. I know that might be difficult to realise at the moment, but you are in the very early stages. As time passes, you will learn more and become more experienced. What seems really difficult and takes a lot of thinking about now will soon become routine and part of normal life to the point where you don’t really realise you are doing it.

We’re all here to help so ask anything you want, and remember, no question is too silly.
 
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Thebearcametoo said:
Hi and welcome. My daughter was diagnosed 2 years ago just before her 9th birthday. It takes time to adjust and get your head around the daily practicalities. You will all adjust but it takes time and is very difficult in those early weeks.

Is he home or in hospital?
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hospital i did a urine test then we found it so they referred him to hospital, we are going home tomorrow.
 
my son is 9 years old .
is that right people with diabetes their life is short ?
 
Eman @ said:
my son is 9 years old .
is that right people with diabetes their life is short ?
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Not at all Eman, I am T1 for almost 40+ years and it doesn’t slow me down, treatment and management is very good these days and it’s improving at an unprecedented rate.
Your son will be fine, you just need to help him find his way so try and be strong
 
Hi and welcome. We are 6 weeks into our 11 year old grandson's journey with Type 1 diabetes. The initial diagnosis is a massive shock and there's lots of information to take on board but now after a few short weeks life is becoming easier and he and us have adapted to this new routine. He's back doing everything he did pre diabetes and eating more healthily too. Some days are still a struggle but we just make the best and get on with it. There's lots of support on here with someone always able to help.
 
Eman @ said:
my son is 9 years old .
is that right people with diabetes their life is short ?
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Not any more! I think it used to be said that it was a life shortening condition, but these days there is much more knowledge about it, better insulins and equipment, so as long as you always do your best to look after him as the doctor tells you and don’t ignore the condition, there is no reason why he shouldn’t live as long as anyone else. My mum was diagnosed in 1967 at the age of 22 and is still here now at the age of 76 and she hasn’t had all the equipment to help her that we have, she couldn’t even do her own blood testing for many years because the machines hadn’t been invented!

I know at the moment it feels like your life has ended, the first few weeks are hard, but honestly you'll soon get used to the new routine and so will he, and there's no reason why he shouldn’t be able to go back to doing everything he did before.
 
thank you for your assurance i have hope there will be a cure for it soon .
Ameen
 
Eman, I am sorry to hear that your son has just been diagnosed with T1. I have known a few people with T1 over the decades and all have on the outside led normal lives (and still do). I am sure there was/is some inner anguish from time to time but it does not seem to have held them back in terms of work, family and social life.
 
@Eman @ - I dunno if it will shorten my life yet, cos I'm only 71, so other people will just have to wait and see what I die of ! I certainly haven't had any reason to think it's going to be soon anyway.
 
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