Diabetes Talking

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completely…any feelback is helpful…do I just wake up one day and my daughter needs no insulin or does it happen gradually and with signs to let me

Neither? My understanding of the honeymoon phase is that once diagnosed and treated, some type I diabetics eperience a time period where their pancreas begins to work better than it did just before the diagnosis.  The idea is that the pancreas "rests" when fresh insulin is given by injection.  After the rest, it begins working. My sons experience:  after diagnosis, he was taking 1 unit humalog and 7 units nph in the morning and 1 unit humalog and 5 units nph in the evening. total 14 units.  he weighs 30 some odd Kilos, so his insulin intake was about or less than 0.5 units per kilo.  no bad. now, 8 months later, he’s at 1 unit H and 15 units nph in the am and 1 u H and 10 u nph in the PM.  total 1 unit per kilo.  In my book, his honey moon is over.  He swings high and low more than he did before. if you want to email me, feel free. cheers, — John F. Hess, PhD Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy School of Medicine Davis, CA please remove the cow noise before emailing me

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I thought every parent had a honeymoon to do the child thing…. (sorry, I couldn’t resist) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am wondering how the honeymoon phase started in the children type I…has every parent had a child do the honeymoon thing..do some skip it completely…any feelback is helpful…do I just wake up one day and my

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At least in my child, it worked like this…. When we found out Ian had diabetes, they did the three day hospital routine to figure out an insulin dosage and to teach us how not to kill our son.  We fortunately caught it very early, so there was no real emergency life-threatening situation to deal with at the time.  When we left the hospital, we were giving him dosages of 3 or 4 units of NPH/R in the morning and at dinner.  Over the next month or two, his numbers kept getting lower, so we kept reducing the units until we were at 1 – 2 units.  It stayed this way for about six months or so, and then the numbers started to climb.  With that, we started increasing the dosages to keep things under control. The honeymoon period is the time period when the pancreas can still put out some insulin as the outside insulin takes some of the stress off the system.   Even though it looks as if things are "getting better", it’s just a temporary condition until the islet cells completely die off.  I’ve heard of situations where the honeymoon is as short as a couple weeks, and as long as a couple of years.  Everyone is different… Hope this helps a little…   Tom Duff   – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am wondering how the honeymoon phase started in the children type I…has every parent had a child do the honeymoon thing..do some skip it completely…any feelback is helpful…do I just wake up one day and my daughter needs no insulin or does it happen gradually and with signs to let me know.. thanks..Judy in care of jessika judy in care of Jessika 3 yr. old diagnosed 11/24/97

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