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5 hours after leaving my custody he is in the 400's.

I wonder if he has a stash of something he hits when he gets home
maybe find a healthier alternative?
had to look up TIR, time in range, I guess meaning how much of the day one is healthy and how much of day one goes out of range
 
   / Diabetes #332  
If he can break the apron strings that keep getting cinched tighter. We track everything here and when we question him on where he gets his carb number from for something that is way off. He says mom. He recognizes the difference in numbers. Once asked me why his numbers are different here than at home. We do go over the data from his pump and he is interested in it but if an example from home comes up he shuts down. It is a lot.
Sorry to hear about your son being leveraged by the mom. At 15 he can decided to live with you and the courts can't do anything about it.
 
   / Diabetes #333  
5 hours after leaving my custody he is in the 400's.

I wonder if he has a stash of something he hits when he gets home
maybe find a healthier alternative?
had to look up TIR, time in range, I guess meaning how much of the day one is healthy and how much of day one goes out of range
No. It is a 8 hour drive. Eats out or other and that is where we feel incorrect calculations are taking place. It is always under calculated. Lots of data to point to the issue just ignored. Doctors can only work with the information given. I feel the doctors don't push hard enough to make sure information is correct and never do I hear of the health risks if he continues this path. And when I am at these appointments any information or data I present is completely disregarded.
 
   / Diabetes #335  
I thought CGM use with a pump, was now the norm?
It depends on how severe things are. Some Diabetics, even type 1s, are still producing insulin but ithe cells are resisting it. The cgm can have a pump slaved to it.

Or, it can just be a lot more data, and teh ability for near instant feed back. Mine sends a reading to the reciever and my iPhone once very five minutes, 24-7. If you’re paying attention to it, you learn to tell how many carbs your in taking by what happens to your reading over the next couple of hours, and if you are too high, or too low will alarm. Things like when it wakes you up at 0200, because you are down to sixty, you need to eat a bit of fruit, some cheese and a few nuts. If you eat too much fruit, then an hour and a half later when you are almost back to sleep it goes into high level alarm.

At fifteen he should be taking over his own management. it is lots easier now with a CGM, than it was twenty years ago using finger stabs to get a blood drop the size of a pinhead. And that was easier than the 70s, when my father got his first glucosemeter, which required a drop of blood the size of a match head. And that was far easier than the piss strips, and monthly blood draws he had before that.

At his point the young man needs to start learning to handle it himself. There are good books, and good videos out there, and diabetes support groups which can be a big help when you are learning.
 
   / Diabetes #336  
He is a bright kid and should have this down but feel he is held back from doing so. In several correspondence she uses his diabetes as a punishment saying "he can't manage it". One thing he has been wanting to do is get a job. Here is a typical week followed by a week here. The 400 on Christmas week was after back in her custody.


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With the last day removed. When he is here we work on being proactive with lows. He is reactive and once it is past a point takes a bit to get him back in.

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Diabetic Mayor looses sight but reverses it with diet.
I don't believe it. Seems his doctors told him "he would loose his eye sigth and health" if he didn't clean up his diet. Not reverse blindness.
 
   / Diabetes #339  
I don't believe it. Seems his doctors told him "he would loose his eye sigth and health" if he didn't clean up his diet. Not reverse blindness.

It was eyesight in one eye.
“Three weeks after converting to a herbivorous diet, Adams regained his vision. Three months later, the nerve damage to his extremities disappeared and his diabetes went into remission.”
 
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