Maribeth
04-25-2008, 05:58 PM
I am new at this site and can't figure how to answer Guitar Dave's delema on MODY and Meds. My son (7) and I (43) were diagnosed as MODY about a year and a half ago.
I was "gestational" with third pregnancy and it went away after 6 months post partum, severely diabetic from the get go during the fouth pregnancy and then it stayed. about 2 years postpartum, my then five year old was diagnosed as type one. Once they saw it was so unusual, neg. Gad, lower A1c, very thin little boy they did not know what to do. Interestingly, I heard a radio show talking abot a MODY specialist in Chicago where we live and I e-mailed him. Wonderfully he called and led us to corect diagnosis right away. My 7 year old is the only one of all four children with it.
Byetta with a 1/2 prandin was wonderful. Now, after being on Byetta for awhile I can't even take any Prandin anymore or I will crash. My A1c's are usuall 5.6 or under. Before Byetta I was on Insulin, H three meals and N at night. We talked about a pump but then I switched to take Metformin and Januvia with the Prandin. This is probably when I felt my worst. I think the Metformin was the culprit.
I swear by my Byetta. It has turned me into a new person, nice and even numbers, energy, no gain in weight. I can eat limited carbs now without spikes. Before if I even had a piece of natural fruit or a whole grain cracker I would have to cover or go way high.
My son was on five diluted (H) shots a day and then we switched to diet control. He is very small for his age so we quit diet control and are currently off meds and just documenting numbers. We will see.
I am curious about the person from Boylston, MA. I have been searching my geneology and my mother's family name is Boydstun and it traces directly back to there...Just an interesting tidbit.
We are being treated by Dr. Robert Sobel, Dr. Louis Philipson, Dr. Greame Bell (he did the molecular diagnosis on us), and Dr. Hattersley in England reviews our case. It was divine intervention that we hooked up with this group. Can't say enough about them.
Maribeth
I was "gestational" with third pregnancy and it went away after 6 months post partum, severely diabetic from the get go during the fouth pregnancy and then it stayed. about 2 years postpartum, my then five year old was diagnosed as type one. Once they saw it was so unusual, neg. Gad, lower A1c, very thin little boy they did not know what to do. Interestingly, I heard a radio show talking abot a MODY specialist in Chicago where we live and I e-mailed him. Wonderfully he called and led us to corect diagnosis right away. My 7 year old is the only one of all four children with it.
Byetta with a 1/2 prandin was wonderful. Now, after being on Byetta for awhile I can't even take any Prandin anymore or I will crash. My A1c's are usuall 5.6 or under. Before Byetta I was on Insulin, H three meals and N at night. We talked about a pump but then I switched to take Metformin and Januvia with the Prandin. This is probably when I felt my worst. I think the Metformin was the culprit.
I swear by my Byetta. It has turned me into a new person, nice and even numbers, energy, no gain in weight. I can eat limited carbs now without spikes. Before if I even had a piece of natural fruit or a whole grain cracker I would have to cover or go way high.
My son was on five diluted (H) shots a day and then we switched to diet control. He is very small for his age so we quit diet control and are currently off meds and just documenting numbers. We will see.
I am curious about the person from Boylston, MA. I have been searching my geneology and my mother's family name is Boydstun and it traces directly back to there...Just an interesting tidbit.
We are being treated by Dr. Robert Sobel, Dr. Louis Philipson, Dr. Greame Bell (he did the molecular diagnosis on us), and Dr. Hattersley in England reviews our case. It was divine intervention that we hooked up with this group. Can't say enough about them.
Maribeth