teens and diabetes

yesterday my 14 year old son got a tentative diagnosis of pre-diabetes awaiting the results of his a1c. has any1 had any experience with a child or teen and diabetes?

I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic when I was a teen. I was 16, I believe. My gyn found glucose in my urine. I wish I'd had a better medical team at the time to truly impress the seriousness of the issue, but instead, I was basically told to stop drinking regular sodas and to eat more vegetables, and an endocrinologist told me to take chromium picolinate. No one ever requested further testing to check my A1C, my fasting insulin level, nothing. I do recall having had some sort of meal tolerance test (go in, have a blood draw, go eat breakfast, come back for another blood draw 2 hours later), but I don't even remember the results, so I assume they weren't alarming. Looking back, it was all quite laughable - no wonder I ended up with full-blown type 2!

Hopefully, you have a better doc than I did. Or at least YOU have a greater understanding (no one in my family was diabetic at the time) and can work with your son through this. If it is just PRE-diabetes (which some medical professionals will disagreee even exists - you'reeither diabetic or you're not), then he's in a good position to turn things around through diet and exercise alone.

 I have Type 1 diabetes and I have ever since I was 10.

ive been a type 1 since age 11... lots of support lots of education... and a pump and he'll do fine :)

Yeah, my sister's daughter got diabetes at the age of 9. Check out the symptoms in teenagers.

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My daughter was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at age 10 , she is now 15, and it has been a big big struggle the last 5 years getting her to take care of herself :(  I know many many children with it that do well, my daughter just does not happen to be one of them.  She is on the pump . If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them.  I am an insulin dependent diabetic myself for 11 years now.
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