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About a week ago my father was told that he had diabetes. What should he do now?

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I’m 29, and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 24 years ago. My control for the last couple of years has been pretty good (HbA1c of around 6. 0), but I do suffer from high glucose readings in the morning. Is it okay to occasionally get the balance very wrong and have a very high reading ?

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I am 37 years old and I have diabetes. I was diagnosed over four years ago and started on shots then. Shortly thereafter, I lost 60 pounds and didn’t take anything any more for diabetes for almost a year and a half. I had a lot of stress and depression. Now, I weigh over 360 pounds and, my blood sugar stays high, I feel nauseous and tired, and I sense the first signs of neuropathy. I am becoming desperate.

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My daughter is 9 and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 3 years ago. We cannot get her to do her on blood tests or shots. Although it is easier to just do it for her, I’d like her to develop some independence. Any ideas?

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I have had type 2 diabetes for almost two years, treated with diet and exercise, I am taking a diuretic along with steroids, and my blood sugar average has been 135 mg/dl [7.5 mmol/L] for the last 30 days. How long should I let it go this high? How high is too high before a diabetic drug is added?

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I had an abdominal injury with rupture of the abdominal wall, and I had immediate onset of gastroparesis. Two years later, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and no one seems to know how to manage my blood sugars adequately.

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Our daughter became very unstable after the first year. She was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and was put on medication to help which worked to stabilize her blood sugars for a while. Then she had other problems including celiac disease and was put on a pump, but she is still very hard to keep stable. Any suggestions?

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I have done testing during the night, and most recently, before bed my blood sugar is is normal, at 3 am, it’s slightly higher, and then when I get up in the morning, it’s high! I was just reading some information on Lantus, but I’ve never heard of it. Is it possible that this would work?

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I have type 2 diabetes treated with 10 mg of Avandia once per day along with 500 mg of metformin three times per day, and I average 8.0 mmol/L [144 mg/dl] in the morning and 5.5 mmol/L [99 mg/dl] before my evening meals. Why are my blood sugars higher in the morning?

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We very recently moved to Phoenix from Michigan, and since the move, my eight year old daughter’s numbers have been terrible. She is on Lantus with Humalog, and used to use an insulin to carb ratio of 1:15, and it is 1:10 which seems like quite a large increase. in insulin. Could this just be an adjustment in climates for her?

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