Female hormones and insulin changes
My daughter is 10, and flirty on the edge of puberty. In the past 2 weeks, her breasts have been hurting, and her insulin has been insuffient. I've increased her basal, her insulin resistance factor, and her insulin:carb ratios, but she's still high. So far, I've only increased these numbers about 10%. Anybody remember what they went (are going) through with hormones?
Tags: changes, girls, hormones, insulin, puberty
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Permalink Reply by Lee Carter on -
I feel your pain! My daughter was 12 at diagnosis in January 2009. She started her period in April 2009. We never even got things adjusted correctly before she started. Now at a year later, we can usually tell when her period is about to start because her numbers soar! She is not on a pump, so we just correct at mealtime. We also encourage her to exercise more to bring her numbers down. When she first started, she had extremely bad cramps (not sure if this was D related or not), but that seems to have gotten better. Never a dull moment with these girls :) Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by Hebrew on -
Hi.I have a similar problem with my 12 year old.I did not realise what was happening until my wife suggested it to me.I do like you and make adjustments at meal time and that works out fine.You have so many variables to consider with adolescent girls.We do two injections per day.
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Permalink Reply by Jan on
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Starting age 11 and particularly age 12, my niece needed huge basal increase between the hours of 7pm until she would spontaneously drop back to her usual dose usually by 2am but sometimes the huge increase was necessary most of the night, but never past dawn. We are talking a three-fold increase in insulin, up to 3 plus units an hour when she was 12. We did put cgms on to help us, but there are times we did not have the cgms on. Her normal basal dose was also highish, around 1 unit to 1.10 units an hour. This happens erratically and can be different depending on the intensity of the hormones and growth spurt. Basically, we would just increase the dosages and stay up and not go to bed so we could monitor her. Once her period started a different pattern began, a lot easier. She still has the growth spurts but they are not as intense. Things are a lot easier now. P.S. At 10, you are just getting started. This has been our most difficult years with Diabetes, from age 11 to 13. Hang in there! Things will get better.
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