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05-05-2008, 05:49 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: May 2008
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| | | Hi, Mom of Type 1 from ATL
Hi,
My name is Jessie and I am from Cumming, GA. I have three daughters, Lexi (5), Kassadi (2) and Marlee EDD 5/12/08.
My daughter Lexi has type 1 diabetes and was diagnosed @ 2 yrs old. She is currently on Novolog and Lantus but we are exploring the pump option. |
05-05-2008, 06:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Clearwater
Posts: 110
| | | Hi Raymond family
hi you found a great forum here and we are all struggling with the diabetes condition . Does your daughter go to an endo ? or does she see a pediatrician ? there is a big difference because my nephew used to go to the pediatrician and he knew absoloutly nothing about juvenille diabetes . I would suggest that you make an appt with an endo for your daughter . that way you will maybe be better off in her health concerns . good luck . |
05-05-2008, 06:22 PM
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Posts: 125
| | | Better still - if you are near a big pediatric facility - a pediatric endo. |
05-05-2008, 06:26 PM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 627
| | | Hi, glad to meet you. How is Lexi doing? (And how are you managing -- congrats on your due-any-day baby!)
Pumping is a little more complicated but a lot more flexible and precise. There are parents of toddlers on the childrenwithdiabetes forums who say it vastly improved their child's quality of life. I hope, if you decide on a pump, that you find the same.
Doing a pump start with a brand-new baby might be a little rough -- there's a lot of testing involved so the sleep deprivation could be spectacular. You might want to wait until Marlee has settled in a bit.
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Mom to Aaron, 17, Type 1 Sept. 05
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05-05-2008, 07:21 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
Posts: 968
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Originally Posted by Holly  Better still - if you are near a big pediatric facility - a pediatric endo. | yep a peds endo is the way to go if your not at one already. I saw mine from age 2 to 23.
Welcome to DF and congrats on the coming baby.
I agree, a new baby and a pump start might be rough--but at the same time sometimes it takes awhile to deal with insurance and paper work. The coming summer might be a good time to play with the pump and problem solve while your daughter is not at school.
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MM 722 and CGMS; Humalog & Symlin
a1c 6.8 (12.15.08)
Vitrectomies May 2007 & July 2007
Casually TTC so we'll see what happens.
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05-05-2008, 07:59 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,311
| | | Hi Jesse and Welcome to Diabetes Forums. I am glad you joined. I think you will find a lot of valuable information on this site for your daughter.
Can't wait to hear about your brand new baby!!! Congrats.
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
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05-05-2008, 08:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas
Posts: 64
| | | Hi welcome to the forums!! This is a great place to learn alot about diabetes!!
Molly
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Pumping with Animas ping PINK!!! . |
05-05-2008, 08:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 3
| | | Hi Jesse,
Sounds like you have your hands full. It is a good idea to get your daughter on a pump but take your time and do it when you can all focus on it together. The focused team approach makes sense... It would be nice if there was a way in which someone could monitor your moves on line and see everytime your daughter's blood sugar results were changing. And send you recommendations on what to do so that you as a parent wouldn't have to make all those decisions yourself. I'm sure that would be helpful.... Best of luck with diabetes Forum it seems really cool in hear I'm new as well.
Mary (living with type 1 for 25 years)
Ps. having your daughter on novolog and lantus at her age is so much further ahead than the one shot a day of Lente insulin I took when I was a kid. It actually only lasted 12 - 16 hours. Now the with lantus it last 24 hours so it seems like you are almost on a pump. (By the way Lantus' competitor Levimir doesn't sting as much when you inject it.) |
05-06-2008, 06:21 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 6,393
| | | Hi Jessie & Welcome! Nice people and plenty of valuable information to be found here.
Karen |
05-06-2008, 06:23 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,080
| | | Hi Jesse, welcome to the forums!
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 |
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