Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 >Finally has an appointment with the backup ped today at 2pm and I cant wait.< Good for you for being insistant, ! I can imagine how upsetting all this has been for you. I'll call my mom tonight, but you may do better asking the neurologist for a recommendation, assuming you trust her. Please keep us posted! Best to you and . Becky My horses are barefoot...naturally! > >Reply-To: diabetes_int >To: diabetes_int >Subject: a ped appt finally >Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:41:26 -0000 > _________________________________________________________________ Compare high-speed Internet plans, starting at $26.95. https://broadband.msn.com (Prices may vary by service area.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 , Hang in there and remember is the patient and these doctors need to work with you and ! I wish you could see my endo. He is wonderful with children. He has several ped patients. Of course, he has five of his own. Kay wrote: Finally has an appointment with the backup ped today at 2pm and I cant wait. He gets out of school at 100 today so that will work perfect. I have my blood counts ready I charted them I wrote when the headaches started ,shaking when he would pee the bed (opps kinda not a goog way to put that) How when get gets past 135 he lays and is just wiped out. Iam ready and I have my tape recorder and tape all ready. I had to do this with his old nero. It makes me so mad as thease doctors are from the Universty of Virginia in Charlottesville wich is a teaching hospital and he has gotten the worse care from them each time. Any way Iam demanding that they arrange for a tollerance test for william. They have given me enough of themI have great tollerance but my patience is running thin with them. He starts a new nero in jan in richmond that was the soonest for that but she said that he shoud have this sugar test long before that. I just talked to her she wanted the test done by now she told me not to mess with the ped when I go in to ask them to get him into and endo right away and that they can argue with her about it. She said he is having to big of jumps and his bloodsugar should especially be higher at night it is under 100 usually between 70 -90 and in the 80 by am sometimes it spikes higher his bedtime is 11/2 hours after dinner. shes concerned that his nighttime is so low and his daytime can go135-261 then drop to 90 or below in a fast time she said its not normal.This child hardly ever gets candy maybe 1 every 2 weeks and he dosnt get soda at all he dosnt like it. we dont have sugar on the table we dont use it so we will see what the test says. I have gone through the cupboards and checked levels on foods and found out i need to make a lot of food from scratch . well this to long and i keep getting off subject so i will let you go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 , Let's hope that it is not diabetes, but it does help to be prepared. Please tell them that you want to be checked by the best Endocrinologist that they have at that hospital...this is coming from someone who learned in 1976 that I first had a carbohydrate intolerance with reactive hypoglycemia...which was discovered by a very good Endocrinologist doing a 5-hour Glucose Tolerance Test. (I don't think they do those any more, they have a series of lab tests that they do now.) http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/index.htm For years, I took care of the situation with diet and exercise...about 10 years ago, I went on meds for it...then about 6 years ago, when I developed bad gastrointestinal problems that were caused by something else, they put me on insulin, because at that time the meds were agravating the problem that I was having then....but I have chosen and the doctor has agreed for me to stay on insulin. I take my blood sugars 4 times per day...before each meal and at bedtime. Please tell them that you want him checked by an Endocrinologist, and look and check the badge that the doctor is wearing or the name on his lab coat, to see if they are, or a very good doctor of internal medicine....in addition to the interns (who are learning to be doctors). This website has a lot of helpful information, whether one is diabetic or not...it helps to guide one in eating proplerly and explains what various food do to our bodies. http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/ Below is a quote from a website. I have learned that it always helps me to get as educated as I can be when I go to the doctor....if they know that a person is savy about these things, they will not brush us off. I ask and get copies of " ALL " my reports, and those papers with the diagnosis that they give one when we check out. If they give me the dull copy that I can't read, I have them make me a copy of the original...something that I can read. Diabetes Is On The Increase Among Children. " Diabetes among children is rising rapidly. Diabetes is helped by making corrections in diet. Please educate yourself on this. The following article on diabetes is appropriate for all, no matter what age. " http://www.health-doc.com/healtharticles/Diabetes-children.html Please keep us posted and let us know what you find out. Eleanor Finally has an appointment with the backup ped today at 2pm and I cant wait. He gets out of school at 100 today so that will work perfect. I have my blood counts ready I charted them I wrote when the headaches started , portions of this message have been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 I would not be surprised if they still do the old glucose test that I mentioned in my previous post. A 3 or 4 hour test has the destinct possibility of getting a diagnosis of diabetes when it is really hypoglycemia. There are better test now. Betty > , > > Let's hope that it is not diabetes, but it does help to be prepared. > > Please tell them that you want to be checked by the best Endocrinologist that they have at that hospital...this is coming from someone who learned in 1976 that I first had a carbohydrate intolerance with reactive hypoglycemia...which was discovered by a very good Endocrinologist doing a 5-hour Glucose Tolerance Test. (I don't think they do those any more, they have a series of lab tests that they do now.) > > http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/index.htm > > For years, I took care of the situation with diet and exercise...about 10 years ago, I went on meds for it...then about 6 years ago, when I developed bad gastrointestinal problems that were caused by something else, they put me on insulin, because at that time the meds were agravating the problem that I was having then....but I have chosen and the doctor has agreed for me to stay on insulin. I take my blood sugars 4 times per day...before each meal and at bedtime. > > Please tell them that you want him checked by an Endocrinologist, and look and check the badge that the doctor is wearing or the name on his lab coat, to see if they are, or a very good doctor of internal medicine....in addition to the interns (who are learning to be doctors). > > This website has a lot of helpful information, whether one is diabetic or not...it helps to guide one in eating proplerly and explains what various food do to our bodies. > > http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/ > > Below is a quote from a website. I have learned that it always helps me to get as educated as I can be when I go to the doctor....if they know that a person is savy about these things, they will not brush us off. I ask and get copies of " ALL " my reports, and those papers with the diagnosis that they give one when we check out. If they give me the dull copy that I can't read, I have them make me a copy of the original...something that I can read. > > Diabetes Is On The Increase Among Children. > > > " Diabetes among children is rising rapidly. Diabetes is helped by making corrections in diet. Please educate yourself on this. > > The following article on diabetes is appropriate for all, no matter what age. " > > > > > http://www.health-doc.com/healtharticles/Diabetes-children.html > > Please keep us posted and let us know what you find out. > > Eleanor > > > > Finally > has an appointment with the backup ped today at 2pm and I > cant wait. He gets out of school at 100 today so that will work > perfect. I have my blood counts ready I charted them I wrote when > the headaches started , > > > portions of this message have been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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