Hello

[JBUD]

Hello to everyone i have just regersted today and have rea a few threads and enjoy them all .
i have been a diabetec for 10 years as a type 2 and have recently started humalog i am just learning how to get it right and take my bg alot @ 10 times a day or more i count everything and started a food diary and can see my calories are under 1500 and my my carbs avg 39 per meal.
i have a 9 year old daughter and when i was diagnosed i told my doctor i was going to be a dad he told me she to would be a diabetic.
well i have been on lantus for years now and take glucofage and avandia which i stopped taking because i take humalog

Well thanks for listening and talk to ya later!

[Penny]

Hi JBud and welcome. There is no reason your daughter will have Diabetes because you do. I am the only one of 8 children that has it, and so far, neither my children or grandchildren have it. I hope you have a new doctor.

[mho357]

Hello Jbud and welcome to the forum.

Mark

[DCaplinger]

I totally agree with Penny. I am one of 6 kids. My dad has Type 2, and so do I. None of my siblings have diabetes or any symptoms of it.

Welcome to the forums.

Regards,

[mg_2204]

Hello and welcome to this wonderful place! :)

[gettingby]

Hi Jbud and Welcome.
I have been a type1 for 23 years now. My 17 yr old daughter does not have diabetes.

[granolahippie]

I want to add my welcome! I do not post to much but think its great to have a place like this one, were you can fine support and sometimes answeres~!!

[Alice]

Welcome...it was very incorrect for your doctor to tell you that your daughter would be diabetic...find a new doctor, quickly....please see an endocrinologist if possible. They specialize in diabetes and know more than the general docs.

[Isometric]

Agreed. There is a genetic link in diabetes, but it doesn't work like that. I was diagnosed a couple of years before my daughter was born, and I remember being concerned about this. Now I am glad that I am more aware of nutrition and how diabetes works. I can pass that along to my daughter so that she can live a healthy life right from the start, whether or not she develops diabetes later in life!

Welcome to the forums - I hope the humalog treatment is going well for you so far! I just started on Novolog myself and am still in the process of getting the dosing right. Makes for sore fingers, but you're doing the right thing by testing often.

[beau91]

:party: Hello JBud , welcome to DF. Hope you get your dosage fast before you run out of places to take your test (haha).About your daughter ,I think your doctor made a bad comment .Anyway stick around and you 'l find alot of answers
Bye Ricky

[davef]

Hi JBUD,

Welcome to the forum, it's great place with great people!

[princesslinda]

Hi JBud, welcome! Glad you found the forum. While diabetes does tend to "run in families," there's no way your doctor can know whether or not your daughter will develop it.

The positive changes you are implementing in your own diabetes management can go a long way in making your entire family healthier. If your daughter maintains a healthy lifestyle into adulthood, she can very possibly avoid diabetes.

Bottom line, you can't spend a lot of time worrying about what "might" happen. Live your life as healthy as you can and keep your kids active and healthy...that's the best any of us can do, diabetic or not.

[kgm0612]

HI & Welcome!

Karen

[lewsterr]

Welcome to DF, JBud. Glad you found us!