Question-Growing out of diabetes?
Hi all, I have not posted in a while, but last night I hear something
that really makes me curious.
I was talking with a retired RN and told her my daughter is type I
diabetic and she asked me if Jessica(12) had started puberty.
She went on to say that hormones might be the cause of the diabetes and
that in 5 years she bets that Jessica will out grow it and not have to
take insulin. Now I have never heard such a thing and was a bit upset
that she would even say that. Have any of you ever heard of this?
Please keep the subject line so I dont miss any responses. Also I am on
digest.
Thanks Janet
January 23rd, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Janet,
I think Iris, Gale LPN, Karyd, Courtney, Sarah, Wally, and I will all sing
loudly:
THAT RN SHOULD REMAIN IN RETIREMENT! I think she is full of *it,* and I
don’t mean insulin. If any of us aforementioned could have *outgrown* it WE
WOULD HAVE CHOSEN THAT ROUTE.
I think someone would have heard of *outgrowing* diabetes by now. We
would have had news reports, books, hey maybe even movies about it. Please,
don’t get your hopes up. BUT do, and I emphasize DO, look into getting her a
pump. You’ll (she’ll) be soooo glad for the freedom and/with flexibility I
can’t describe it for her. Your lives (entire family) will change. Go to
www.insulin-pumpers.org and check it out.
This RN reminds me of parents who believe their child will be healed -
even as they lie in their caskets! Best to you and especially Jessica.
dr. Jan (age 60, T-1 49 yrs, pumping 16 yrs.)
January 25th, 2005 at 5:44 am
Janet,
I have never heard any thing like that before. I wonder why she told you
that, was there suppose to be someone she knew that “outgrew” it. I have
been a diabetic for 43yrs and found when I went through puberty I had my
difficulty with my diab., and later it became maybe easier to manage, but
still have flucuations on and around my period.
Gail D in IL
January 26th, 2005 at 11:27 am
In a message dated 11/20/1999 11:42:47 AM Central Standard Time,
gloryb@… writes:
<< Janet,
I have never heard any thing like that before. I wonder why she told you
that, was there suppose to be someone she knew that “outgrew” it. I have
been a diabetic for 43yrs and found when I went through puberty I had my
difficulty with my diab., and later it became maybe easier to manage, but
still have flucuations on and around my period.
Gail D in IL
I was 21 or so when I was dx with this disease. I went through so much
denial, that it frustrated my endo. He finally said “Shelia once you have
this it never goes away, you will always have it.” That was hard to hear,
everyone wants to be normal but because I wanted to say I am normal I ignored
the doctor and did my own thing and boy did it catch up to me, not right
away but later in life like the day I turned 40 it started the very next
day!! lol. I am a type 2 but was always told they were not sure if i was a
2 or 1. Then one day he said not you are a type 1 and the nurse even said
you cant be. So I am treated like a 2 but still have problems with what I
am. Just call me a diabetic with a idenity problem!! LOL Shelia :O)
January 26th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
Janet
Thank goodness that woman is retired. How would you like her as a
nurse? Never heard such a silly thing….
Gail
From: jbmoy@… (J Moyer)
Hi all, I have not posted in a while, but last night I hear something
that really makes me curious.
I was talking with a retired RN and told her my daughter is type I
diabetic and she asked me if Jessica(12) had started puberty.
She went on to say that hormones might be the cause of the diabetes and
that in 5 years she bets that Jessica will out grow it and not have to
take insulin. Now I have never heard such a thing and was a bit upset
that she would even say that. Have any of you ever heard of this?
Please keep the subject line so I dont miss any responses. Also I am on
digest.
Thanks Janet
January 27th, 2005 at 11:31 am
I have been a diabetic for 55 years and have never heard of such a thing but
then I don’t know everything either.
Blessings, Wally.
Wally Brown <wallybr@…
January 29th, 2005 at 4:17 am
Thanks for you replies. I too thought to myself she should stay in
retirement. I was kind of floored to hear the comment from her. She
actually said that she bets in 5 years that it would happen. I just
let her talk and told her that I had never heard of growing out of
diabetes.
As for the pump changing our lives I do believe that is true. In fact
we went and saw Nicole Johnson, the 1999 Miss America who wears the
pump, speak. That was a night to remember. By reading this list, I had
already decided that the pump would be our goal. Everytime we go to the
3 month check up, we ask about when she can get on it. The doctor is
pretty good and has a wide range of ages on the pump and he feels we
need to wait still. He has a 4 year old girl on one. The Hba1c’s are
in the 5’s, so we are controlling the desease and at the same time it
is controlling us because we always have that routine to follow.
Thanks again, and if I don’t post again before Thanksgiving. Have a
happy one. I will go to no mail on Monday for a weeks vacation. So
Here I go back to one of 80 lurkers.. LOL
Janet, Mother of 12 yr old Jessica.
January 29th, 2005 at 9:40 am
Janet,
w.O.w. aka Jan again. I’ve set up this scenario of what happened. This
un-w.O.w. finds out you have a young daughter with diabetes and kindly wants
to make you *feel good,* no harm done (in her kindly elderly mind) and tells
you Jessica will outgrow this in 5 years after puberty. She goes to bed last
night with a peaceful smile on her face thinking of the hope she has given
you and Jessica and 5 years from now after it hasn’t happened you will have
forgotten all about it. WRONG!!!
She surely couldn’t have been serious, nor could she have had any
documentation.
When you get a lemon, make lemonade and sweeten it artificially.
w.O.w.
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January 29th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
Hi Janet!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if your daughter really could grow out of diabetes
like an old pair of sneakers!! Unfortunately we all know the reality of
that happening.
A very good friend of mine is a nurse in a neo-natal intensive care unit in
South Carolina and deals with many very sick and preemie babies. Sometimes
one of these babies will have elevated blood sugars from the stress of
surgery, and have to have an insulin IV for a while (few days maybe?). Most
of the time, these babies are not diabetic and the insulin is very
temporary. That is the ONLY situation I have ever heard of that someone
could “outgrow diabetes” even though these babies are never diagnosed with
it.
Well, that’s just my two cents.
Connie
Type 1, dx’d 2/14/98 (yes, that’s Valentine’s Day!)