Hi, I am not a doctor, although I feel like I could educate the whole world on diabetes. My son was diagnosed with Type I diabetes when he was eight years old. We have been battling this disease for almost two years. My son was constantly thirsty and always hungry and always cranky in the afternoon prior to being diagnosed. He was wetting the bed every night and drinking a 2 liter of soda in half a day, taking long naps and sweating alot.
What you have described sounds similiar to some of the things that my son was experiencing. The best thing you can do is get her glucose checked. If you know someone who has a meter, you can check the glucose yourself. I hope that her appointment is soon. Diabetes is not something to play around with. Good luck and I hope your daughter does not have diabetes.
Dear Mom_of_4
I am not a doctor either but I have been diabetic for 36 years and have a 14 year old daughter myself. It also sounds like low blood sugars to me. I also have night terrors about sharks when I have low bloodsugars at night and I get real tired first thing in the morning because of really low blood sugars. I have grown used to keeping sugar soda by my bed at night. I also think the best thing you can do is talk to her doctor. Good Luck and I hope everything is solved for you
I am not a doctor, but I have had Type 1 diabetes for 24 years and I have 2 young children. First off, I wanted to tell you that going to the pediatrician is the best thing-you are a good mom and doing the right thing. I like to say that because moms need to be reminded that they are doing a good job. You know your child and you know something isn't right. It may be diabetes it may not, but you will find out. I try and write down all of my questions before we visit the pediatrician and bring the list with me-because in all the rush and hoopla involved in going to the doctor I sometimes forget to ask the questions I wanted and needed answers for in the first place.
Since I do have little ones I understand your dilema too, sometimes my son is not himself-due to change in schedule(we are potty training)starting a new babysitter-the kids are nervous as am I! You never know with little ones. So, as I said before going to the doctor is the best thing and discussing all your issues with them good too-you know your child!
Dear Mom_Of_four,
First off, i'm not a doctor just a person with diabetes trying to answer questions from my experience. To me, it seems unlikely that this is caused by diabetes because diabetics sometimes have a 'dawn phenominon' where the blood sugars rises which wouldn't be helped by juice. Although it does seem to resemble high blood sugar which is what happens in undiagnosed diabetes, but this would be best handled by a doctor who may have better insight than me and be able to know by the symptoms and some blood tests.
good luck with your doctor appointment, bret
hi i'm not a doctor but sounds like she is having low blood sugars at night and drops realy bad in the morning does she drink alot and go to the washroom alot if so she might be border line i've been diabetic for 13 years hope this helps you best to go get her tested for diabeties