| swelling in the legs and feet?
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My son has been diagnosed type 1 for a week now. We where at the hospital from Tuesday to Saturday night. Everything seems to be going fine except one little thing. His lower legs and feet are swelling up. He can walk on them, but it's just really odd. I called the doctor but there wasn't much concern from her about it. What can I do to help that out?
After Christmas of this year, my son shot up quite a bit and thinned out. Being that his dad, at 20 years old, was 6'1 and 118lbs soak n wet I wasn't to concerned about the thinning out. (At 35, his dads only just broke the 150lb mark.)
As long as he was eating and drinking, I wasn't worried. He was really packing the food in too. When he knew I was getting off of work, he'd call me and ask me to bring him a cheeseburger or two home as just a snack. Ya know, the boy was eating.
But about two weeks ago he got worse, he seemed to get even more pale and loose even more weight. The doctors said he had Lyrangitus and put him on the zpack.
He did alright through out the weekend, he seemed tired but the zpack is a pretty heavy antibiotic that can cause really harsh cramping at times so when he said he had cramps on that monday and came home from school, I took him off the zpack and told him to get some rest because that was making him hurt.
He wasn't puking, or sick like that. Just achy and tired. I told him that if he wasn't any better by the next morning, that we where gonna have to go to the hospital.
So of corse, the next morning he wasn't better, he seemed worse to me. Much worse. I got the little ones off to school and helped him get ready so we could go to the hospital. At this point he could hardly function. I mean, he walked himself but you could tell it took a **** of an effort and he had to lean on me several times.
Once we went to the hospital and I heard the doctor say his blood sugar was over 500, I knew. Hit me like a ton of bricks. Out of all the things I thought they would say (infection, ect) I didn't expect that. In hindsight now, I see it, he was suffering from some major excessive thirst. He'd drink two gallons of water a day, sometimes more. And I know that's a sign of diabetes but it never dawned on me that my son could have it.
Anyway, the local hospital transfered us to Columbus Childrens where we spent ALOT of time.
So here I am. Nice to meet ya all.  | 
