I am trying to understand how growth hormones affect glucose levels. My daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on April 20, 2006. She has been doing reasonably well, with her last A1c at 7.0. At present, she is on about five units Humalog, one and a half units of NPH per day. Her glucose readings last week are generally around 70 mg/dl [3.9 mmol/L] to 170 mg/dl [9.4 mmol/L]. But, for the past three or four days, she has jumped up well over 200 mg/dl [11.1 mmol/L] at dinner, way above the norms of the week before. And, today, she was 98 mg/dl [5.5 mmol/L] before breakfast. She got four units of Humalog, no NPH. At school, at lunch time, she at 337 mg/dl [18.7 mmol/L]. She only had a small mid-morning snack as usual, certainly not enough to crank her up to over 330 mg/dl [18.3 mmol/L]. She is not sick and nothing in the diet has changed. Is this a typical symptom of growth hormones kicking in and out ?

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.