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Diagnosis and Symptoms

A client of mine has been told that her son has “brittle juvenile diabetes”. His mother says he was told by a doctor that this means it will be very difficult to control, she should plan on spending considerable time in the emergency room and doctors’ offices since his blood sugar levels are likely to fluctuate significantly. Is this true? What is “brittle juvenile diabetes”?

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There many relatives with diabetes on both sides of our family, and I am concerned about my daughter who has been drinking more, constantly hungry, and recently she has been wetting the bed at night. Can you have a normal urine test and still have diabetes? Should she be tested further?

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My daughter’s a teenager who has had erratic blood sugars since about the age of 10. She’s seen two endocrinologists who both agree they are rather odd levels, but no one really knows a cause. Is there an autoimmune disorder to the cells that sense the level of glucose in the blood and thus cause the pancreas to need to guess amounts of insulin to put out and cause erratic blood sugars in a person without diabetes?

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My almost four year old is always thirsty, urinates a lot, is hungry a lot, but has not lost weight. I have tested his urine sugar, and it has always been negative. I have never tested first thing in the morning, but I suspect he is okay. What do you think?

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I have not been diagnosed, but I seem to have all the symptoms of hypoglycemia. I have tried to remove most of the sugar from my diet, and I thought that I was starting to get it under control, I had been eating more sugar then normal over the holidays, and today I had an attack. Should I see a doctor or a dietitian?

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My 28 year old friend who had gestational diabetes and has diabetes in her family, has had several infection requiring antibiotics during the last six months. She has had two non-fasting blood test that were negative for diabetes. Can you just give me your insight?

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I have type 1 diabetes and have noticed that my friend has started to show symptoms, so I checked her blood sugars which were 7.1 and 8 mmol/L [127 and 144 mg/dl]. Should I encourage her to see a doctor?

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I have noticed symptoms in a friend’s son. On my advice, the mother purchased a “cheap” meter to test him at home, and his fasting blood glucose is within normal range, but when he eats, his blood glucose shoots up. The boy’s doctor feels these are perfectly normal readings and refuses to do an oral GTT or GAD antibody test, but did do an A1c which was 4.6%. Is it normal for a teenager to swing so rapidly and broadly?

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My daughter was diagnosed after a urine sample was detected with sugar and a blood sugar test resulted in 280 mg/dl [15.5 mmol/L] reading. Throughout her stay in the hospital, her sugar level remained normal. Is she in the honeymoon stage already, or was she misdiagnosed? The doctor “thinks” that we may have caught it so early that her pancreas is still working.

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My husband recently became ill, and the doctor us that he had type 1 diabetes. My husband was then sent for a glucose tolerance test which was essentially normal, with the exception of elevated insulin levels and elevated C-peptides and has now been referred to an endocrinologist. This information has been puzzling to us.

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