I thought for a month that my five year old son had diabetes, he had just started school, began to lose weight and was very tired, I took him to my GP on numerous occasions each time being given a different diagnosis, oh he's tired because he's just started school!! I had old my GP about his weight loss and tremendous thirst! And other tests I had done myself one of which was tasting his urine one night after I found him drinking from the tap in the bathroom. Oh well ! All children get thirsty I mentioned the other signs he didn't take any notice of my concern. Until one day I received a phone call from his school saying he wasn't feeling well, I picked him up from school and made an appointment for him to be seen straight away by my GP. I took him to our surgery and when my GP saw me there again with him he said I was a Nuerotic mother!! I told him to test my sons urine and blood, which he did, he was shocked at the results in front of him and told me to take him home he was going to call an ambulance, yes he did have diabetes and there the nightmare began.
My sons life and our life was turned upside down, he was the youngest diabetic the hospital had seen.
My son is 35 now and there have been many many times in his life that I have wondered how he carries on due mostly to his bad control of his condition, diabetes has taken away his confidence he is afraid to move on because of this condition 30 years my son has had diabetes yet in all that time there hasn't been any advancement in the treatment of this cruel condition.
Cheshire, United Kingdom
