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My eight year old daughter was diagnosed with diabetes 18 months ago. I have many questions.

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Our 6 year old son has had Type 1 diabetes for 15 months. Over the past several months, we have experienced many instances of his glucose levels being low at lunch and high at dinner. And do you have any suggestion to stop this occurrence?

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My 13 year son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a few months ago. However, he gets colds on and off. Is any decongestant that he can take that won’t raise his blood glucose too much?

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My daughter is 11 years old and has had diabetes for four years. We are beginning to have a lot of trouble controlling her blood sugar. What I need to know is, are there any types of insulin that can be used other than N and R, to help us get better control of her diabetes?

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If his blood sugar approaches 400 mg/dl [22.2 mmol/L] before lunch, or before his bedtime snack, I would like to give him a small amount of Humalog rather than wait six to twelve hours. My endocrinologist is very much against giving him any additional injections. Why would this be?

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My son is six years old and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was two and one-half years old. We are having difficulty with wide blood sugar swings and he feels terrible most of the time. I don’t know what to do. Do all children with diabetes struggle as my son is?

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Our doctor in Panama believes our two year old daughter has MODY. Can such a small child be placed in oral agents? If she does not have not type 1 diabetes, how can her sugars levels be controlled (given that she does not need insulin)?

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I am on Glucotrol with Actos, and now my blood sugars will not go down for anything. I run about two miles every other day and consume about 245 grams of carbohydrate per day, but I cannot get my blood sugar to normalize. My doctor is mentioning insulin, and I don’t think that is the answer so I am making an appointment with an endocrinologist, but what should I do?

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I have type 2 diabetes and have been taking insulin for the past month, but it doesn’t seem to work even though they increased my dosage. When my blood sugar was normal, I could barely see across the room. I ate some sweets, got my blood sugar back up to a high level, my vision returned to normal, and I felt better.

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We recently moved, and I need advice on changing my nine year old son’s insulin doses. His blood sugar is averaging over 230 mg/dl [12.8 mmol/L] at every meal. I have tried adjusting his doses and am failing. The numbers are still high. Is there some type of information I can read to show me how to adjust his doses?

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