My two -year -old daughter is diabetic

Hello, I am Cristina, a mother of a two and a half year old girl who has recently diagnosed with DM1.

I wanted to tell our story a bit.My daughter had been asking for a couple of months at night, when she is a continent and before she endured all night.This was getting worse until a couple of weeks ago, who asked for pee every two or three hours and made a lot.He also started asking for water at night.I am a nurse and this made me suspect a bit, so one night I made a urine strip and the glucose came out very high.With this I was already clear that it was going to be diabetes, but until you go to the doctor and tell you ... well, you maintain a small hope.We went on the emergency room the next day and confirmed the diagnosis.It was a very large stick even "knowing it."That same day we were admitted to the plant to put the treatment, adjust dose ... I have to say that the positive part of all this is that when we realize so soon, the girl was very stable and the income has been very short.Also for my part, being a nurse, I am very used to putting these treatments, every day I am calculating insulin doses for my patients etc.So it has been relatively easy if we think that the knowledge of the disease I already have them.A week ago we went high and I think we are doing well.The girl continues with quite high glucose levels, but well I understand that they want to go carefully when adjusting doses.It always scares a hyper more than a hyper.Luckily, I think my daughter had a fairly varied and balanced diet and more or less adapts well to what you have to eat, even if we have to weigh everything you eat, etc.In the end it is being a change in our routines.Everything seems to be "good", the problem is that I am quite bad.I'm sad.The shock of the first days has already passed, but I am very sorry and I don't know how to manage it.I guess almost everyone who is here have gone through this.I do nothing but think that we have left the hospital, we are at home adapting, we do the best we can, but that this disease has come with us.This disease will be with my daughter forever.And no matter how much they tell me that the girl will not be limited and will be happy, I think this for her is a burden.And it will always be.And how unfair it is that such a small child has to have these concerns.I only think that children with this age have to enjoy, play, without responsibilities ... And unfortunately my daughter will have that limitation.I am so obsessed with the issue that I even feel bad when one day I like a chocolate in hidden, when I think Christmas comes and everything that supposes that in family meals.I don't know, I'm having a bad time.I just hope that little by little we see that the girl makes normal life despite her controls.And nothing wrote this here in relief mode, and to read some similar cases and see the light a little when thinking about the future.Thanks for reading me.

Hello Cris.I understand you perfectly because it is a whore, for anyone but more for a two -year -old girl.I started with 9 years, I have 52, all my life, I am a family doctor in C of Health so I understand you even more.

I know that this will not console you but think that the children who debut today have the "luck" of having many more means and more accurate and less limiting treatments than those who debuted in the 80s. Cdo I started the insulin was pork, then the, NPH Q were enslaving, the glucometers began, there were no sensors ... Anyway, within the bad, it is much less bad.I would like to have debuted with these means if my destiny was to debut.

This forum is wonderful, I am almost since that it started and we are a great family so I encourage you to go through it in CDO, for what you want.A strong hug.

Hello Cristina

Encourage, woman, your girl will be great and be very happy.For her there will not be a before and after.It will normalize insulin treatment because it is a baby.

The rebel stage will be in adolescence when the goal is to be part of the group and freeze with it, be all the same.But by then he will be used to and will be responsible for his treatment.

Today life is easier for diabetics, although I debuted 10 years ago and yes, I have a before and after, with a great change of life.But I have to say that I have taken it and I get along, although there are days to erase from the calendar.

Do not feel guilty, you eat your cake, your chocolate, your jellyle ... The girl has to normalize all behaviors, that there are things that will not be able to eat without her dose of insulin.And over time he will learn that some are not worth it.

Cristina, I know how you are having it because my daughter started with 5 years and the blow was brutal too, 30 years ago.At that time, NPH insulins and mixtures had you with your soul in suspense, day and night.

I went to the psychiatrist, because I had an anxiety that did not leave me or breathe.

He gave me Seroxat and Orfidal, and I balanced myself a lot.I had to be fine., I kept working because of that neither cume nor anything.

She barely affected her, she understood quickly and learned to use the fast for whims.The truth is that, with those insulins and the tendency to hypos, I ate everything.

With the change from slow to Toujeo, he almost forgot the hypos, and that leads a very active life, sometimes with visits of works and scaffolding.., He is an architect and loves to paint.At the moment the eyes and analytics remain well, without complications.Even good defenses has.Class never lacked diabetes.Of course, always with your sugar lumps in your pockets.

You have to go slowly, pointing doses, controls, hydrates .. seeing how it reacts.

You can give it Christmas sweets at food, with faster., .. I don't know how slow it wears ... there are more hydrates than others.

Quiet and slowly, little by little ... treatments and diabetes are not going to prevent you from having a long and happy life

A hug !

Hi Cristina, at first it is always a stick but a day will come when it will be normal and surely you will take it well.

Much encouragement, the girl is going to grow perfectly and will be as happy as any other boy.

I do not see it as a disease but as a metabolic disorder.

Not in ten years but surely in 20, when the problem problem, which is to deactivate the self -immunity is achieved, the perfusion and implantation of islets of lagerhams and beta cells will be common, together with the cancellation of the genes that express theAuto immunity.

So probably before 2045, young and with life ahead, he will be saved.

Until then, to take care of yourself and try to be happy as the most.

Cheer up!!!