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Did you (or your child) have insulin resistance during growth spurts?
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Not sure if it was related to growth but certainly had resistance.
There was no way to measure resistance (or blood sugar level) when I was growing up. First meter (’79) I was already 18 years old and beta tested MDI!
I’m not sure, but looking retrospectively, I most probably did. My final growth spurt occurred when BS testing was limited to one or two readings per year.
We had no way of knowing in 1972.
I don’t know is the most appropriate reply. Monitoring for me was peeing on a strip.
I was diagnosed with T1D in 1956. I went through a growth spurt in 1972-73 and was hospitalized twice for a week each time because there were NO home glucose monitors or CGM back then and my daily dose of insulin climbed to 200 UNITS per day and doctors were afraid to have that administered at home. It was a bit scrarry once it passed, as my blood sugar fell and I could not consume CARBs fast enough.
I have developed insulin resistance in my 60’s currently and use Metformin, Acarbose and Jardiance to help manage it and reduce my daily insulin (25%) and not gain additional weight.
Answered this one because I was curious to see if it would confirm my impression that this community skews toward people dx’d as adults. Seems it was. Dunno if it’s significant of anything, just curious.
I said not sure. I experienced DKA twice when going through puberty in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Identified in 1961 at age 6.
I was 17 when I became diabetic, but if I recall I was already at my maximum height.
I do remember as my boys got older both diagnosed very young that yes as they grew so did the amount of insulin!
Growth spurts? I don’t recall … I was always petite in stature as a child, even before being diagnosed at age 8. I reached a full 5 ft (60 in) at around 14 or 15 and my height remained there until my 60s, whence I began to gradually decrease in height. Am now 58.5 inches tall.
Addendum: I don’t recall ever being told of insulin resistance during growth spurts. I “grew up” in the 1960s and early 70s … no way to measure anything back then the way we do now.
My T1D was diagnosed in my early 20s, no subsequent growth spurts!
No. I was diagnosed as an adult.