Type 2 diabetes care plan for school
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You know its incredible what we have allowed diabetes to become. My mother has been type II for about 15 years. It's been a huge factor in the quality of my life. I love her, but it is so extremely difficult to cope with things like low blood sugar reactions and poverty and so many other adversities. I'm 29 and I feel so stressed I think Ive got thyroid imbalance and the adrenal burnout...I'm so sick of it all. And I wouldnt even really have many options for healthcare for her or me.
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Hi Dalki,
Yes, in time your doctor will likely know for sure which type of diabetes you have. In addition to Type 1 and Type 2, there seems to be a type 1.5 ... tho' there's some thought that 1.5s are just in the early stages of Type 1. We DMers (folks with diabetes mellitis) and our docs often call that a honeymoon phase.
I hope you're feeling better now that your bloodsugar has begun to come down. Things may remain volatile for a while, so try to be patient with yourself.
Another thing that has helped is to have a 504 plan in place and to make sure that the school is following the plan and if they are not them to take it to a higher level. Remember we need to be advocates for our kids.
The other thing that I would recommend is that if there are a lot of fluctuations see if it is related to school activity and contact your endocrinologist or diabetic team to adjust you daughter insulin dosages or rates.
The effects of diabetes on the body, however, are about the same for type 1 and type 2 if good control is not maintained. The diet concerns, eating healthy foods in reasonable quantities, are the same.
My answers:
1. 42 years
2. Some years yes, others no
3. Yes, my pancreas no longer produces insulin and the constant variation in blood glucose is slowly destroying my body.
My son is age 17 and diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 11. He has many hyperglycemic episodes and has missed excessive amounts of class time. Our high school limit for absences if 18. He has well over this amount. The school is wanting to deny him credit for classes because of the absenteeism. I don't think this is fair because of the high blood sugars. Unfortunately I do not have a doctor's statement to support each occurence of the hyperglycemia.
When you learned you had diabetes, you and your health care team worked out a diabetes care plan. The plan aims to balance the foods you eat with your exercise and, possibly, diabetes pills or insulin. You can do two types of checks to help keep track of how your plan is working. These are blood glucose checks and urine ketone checks.
Blood Glucose Monitoring Checks
Blood glucose monitoring is the main tool you have to check your diabetes control.
I am a long distancer runner training for a marathon. I have lived with type 1 diabetes for thirteen years. I use the Bernstein dietary regimen and "exercise technique", which consists of eating small amounts of dextrose while running to compensate for the hypoglycemic effect of exercise. The aim is to keep blood sugar normal at all times. It works. Google "Bernstein diabetes" for the book.
I have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes for several years. The diet is the same diet recommended for Type 1 diabetes. Your doctor or The ADA can give you a copy of the recommended diet. The difference in the diet for Type 2 is that you do not have to eat on such a strict schedule. Please be careful to check your blood sugars often. You should not have more than 3 servings of carbs per meal as recommended by the ADA.
Some people are able to control Type 2 diabetes with losing and maintaining healthy weight, lowering carb intake and regular exercise. Some are not, and need medication. It is impossible to answer your question because every diabetic is different and it would depend on how high your numbers were to begin with and what you ate and did. Serious consequences (complications) from diabetes don't occur in 24 hours, they occur over time spent at high numbers.
Many of us with hepatitis C, even those of us who are cured, are dealing with type 2 diabetes. Losing weight and eating low carb is very helpful. My doctor put me on metformin which dropped my fasting blood sugar closer to normal range. But the thing that helped the most was cutting way down on carbs and losing 10 pounds. My A1C went from 6.0 to 5.6.
I just realized that I haven't seen my diabetes specialist in about three years. On my last visit she "discharged" me to the care of my internist. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about 5 years ago, at age 62. My glucose levels are stable at around 110, hB!ac 5.9. I've recently lost 25 kg, do some mild exercise and feel good.
I'm taking metformin twice a day (750 mg).
A suggestion for the school issue is to speak to her teachers and emphasize that this is out of her control and hopefully soon she will be seeing clearly. If you haven't been told about 504 plans, I suggest you look at www.childrenwithdiabetes.com under the diabetes in schools section. It will tell you of the importance of having this plan in place to prevent your daughter from having every possible advantage to do her best in school.
Many times a Type 2 Diabetic will be treated as a Type 1 (on the same medications etc) but will not actually BE a Type 1. Reason being the treatments for a Type 1 are also effective on a Type 2 if that severity of treatment is needed. It is believed that Type 2 can be prevented or delayed in its onset by proper diet and exercise just like you would do if you actually had Type 2. As far as I know there is no way to prevent Type 1.
But my friend with a type 1 diabetic child of seven goes through the same thing and she even had him placed in a school outside her school district that handled diabetes problems better. She also said she looked for a doctor that would back her on absenses due to diabetes. It must be terribly hard on kids with diabetes where they feel so out of place which most kids yearn to blend in with the others. But i would recommend apeaking with her doctor and see what the doctor recommends.
have type 2 diabetes latey bkood sugars beteen 250 -380 seen doctor recently was put o lantus 10u did nothing called doc she said to go up to 15u been a few days should i see a specialst she says she can control has not changed does lantus take awhile to take effect an also o metformin 1000 glipizide and juniva
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