My son isn't due another HbA1c until mid May but I would love him to have one done just to give me some encouragement things are going the right way.
His last one a month or so ago was 11.2, down from 12, but he had been through a period of rebellion/denial and had been 'forgetting' to inject and testing was a real no-no. He did reluctantly start testing a couple of times a day for a couple of months, but is again refusing to test. His regime has been tweaked by his team, and as I have said before, he/we have NEVER been told about corrections or adjusting doses ourselves, so though I would confidently do it, he won't, and won't let me get involved. However, having said all this, he does seem to be pretty much doing as they have asked.
He now has 24u Humilin M3 at breakfast, 7u Novorapid after school to cover snacks, Novorapid carb counted at dinnertime and 28u (I think) of Lantus at bedtime, and does seem to be following this regime, so I do feel much more positive about things.
The thing that makes me pretty confident he is following this is that he has started having the odd hypo again. He hadn't had one since July last year, with any BG readings he did ever do being in the teens. A month ago though, within 48 hours of the tweaking of his doses, he had one, and now has on average about one a week. He did have one at half past midnight a couple of days ago. I heard him go downstairs, but that is not unusual for him as he sits on his computer until some unearthly hour and does go downstairs for a drink/snack from time to time. A few minutes later he went down again, crashing and banging around so this time I was out of bed like a shot. Of course I was met by an aggressive 'What do you want? I'm only getting a drink!' At that point I actually didn't suspect a thing and just thought he was being inconsiderate and noisy, as he was getting a sugar free drink.
The next morning though he admitted he had been having a hypo, his worst ever he said. By that, he meant worst ever symptoms, not reading, as he didn't test until after he felt ok at which point it was back up to 4.0. He said he nearly fell going downstairs and felt very disorientated. I of course said he should have come and got me, I had heard him go anyway, but as I said hadn't thought anything of it first time. Of course as soon as I said he should have got me he turned all 'teenager-ish' on me and said 'I knew I shouldn't have told you!' I tried to say that he could have fallen downstairs and seriously injured himself being so disorientated and that I could have done the runnning down for Coke, but he just told me to leave it, and wouldn't talk anymore. He apparently had 2 Cokes, and I found open packets of dextrose tablets all over his bedroom floor the next morning, so I am not sure just how much he had! I used to keep a Coke next to my bed in the early days, but he got angry about that so I took it out, and have suggested many a time he keeps one or two in his room, but he says they are too tempting so he won't.
He still won't ever let me discuss anything D related with him, I just wish we could have a proper chat sometime, but I have backed right off and go days without mentioning it or asking anything. He has gone back to not testing at all, the other night was the first time in a month, he has just treated hypos before without having a clue how low he actually is. I know the key is to actually treat the hypo, so that's all good, but I would love to know what his morning readings are once in a while. Maybe when he wakes this morning I could have a little word........!
His last one a month or so ago was 11.2, down from 12, but he had been through a period of rebellion/denial and had been 'forgetting' to inject and testing was a real no-no. He did reluctantly start testing a couple of times a day for a couple of months, but is again refusing to test. His regime has been tweaked by his team, and as I have said before, he/we have NEVER been told about corrections or adjusting doses ourselves, so though I would confidently do it, he won't, and won't let me get involved. However, having said all this, he does seem to be pretty much doing as they have asked.
He now has 24u Humilin M3 at breakfast, 7u Novorapid after school to cover snacks, Novorapid carb counted at dinnertime and 28u (I think) of Lantus at bedtime, and does seem to be following this regime, so I do feel much more positive about things.
The thing that makes me pretty confident he is following this is that he has started having the odd hypo again. He hadn't had one since July last year, with any BG readings he did ever do being in the teens. A month ago though, within 48 hours of the tweaking of his doses, he had one, and now has on average about one a week. He did have one at half past midnight a couple of days ago. I heard him go downstairs, but that is not unusual for him as he sits on his computer until some unearthly hour and does go downstairs for a drink/snack from time to time. A few minutes later he went down again, crashing and banging around so this time I was out of bed like a shot. Of course I was met by an aggressive 'What do you want? I'm only getting a drink!' At that point I actually didn't suspect a thing and just thought he was being inconsiderate and noisy, as he was getting a sugar free drink.
The next morning though he admitted he had been having a hypo, his worst ever he said. By that, he meant worst ever symptoms, not reading, as he didn't test until after he felt ok at which point it was back up to 4.0. He said he nearly fell going downstairs and felt very disorientated. I of course said he should have come and got me, I had heard him go anyway, but as I said hadn't thought anything of it first time. Of course as soon as I said he should have got me he turned all 'teenager-ish' on me and said 'I knew I shouldn't have told you!' I tried to say that he could have fallen downstairs and seriously injured himself being so disorientated and that I could have done the runnning down for Coke, but he just told me to leave it, and wouldn't talk anymore. He apparently had 2 Cokes, and I found open packets of dextrose tablets all over his bedroom floor the next morning, so I am not sure just how much he had! I used to keep a Coke next to my bed in the early days, but he got angry about that so I took it out, and have suggested many a time he keeps one or two in his room, but he says they are too tempting so he won't.
He still won't ever let me discuss anything D related with him, I just wish we could have a proper chat sometime, but I have backed right off and go days without mentioning it or asking anything. He has gone back to not testing at all, the other night was the first time in a month, he has just treated hypos before without having a clue how low he actually is. I know the key is to actually treat the hypo, so that's all good, but I would love to know what his morning readings are once in a while. Maybe when he wakes this morning I could have a little word........!
