Hi Julia
This is what the doctors are telling me that Ethan has the
start of diabetes.When Ethan was in the adernal crisis his blood
sugar stay at 108 to 112 and in adernal crisis it should be between
40-50.they where giving him glucose and it was not changing it at one
time it was 151 they finally got it down.so we have to see the
doctors on Monday to see if he will be all wright without insulin
right now.

Donna

--- In apeced@yahoogroups.com, "juliap99" <juliap99@...> wrote:
>gl
> Donna,
>
> I'm so glad you were able to catch it with labs. It seems that I
> know how to tell if my own body needs extra cortisone, but how
> diffidult it must be to read the signs of your little Ethan! I'm
> also glad your doctors are letting you know what to look for. I do
> remember as a little girl that I would sometimes need more
cortisone
> even if I wasn't sick. I would get very irritable and angry for no
> reason (different though from a temper tantrum) - I would just want
> to pull my hair out - my parent called it a "cortef attack" but
> basically I just neede more cortisone for whatever reason. Kids
may
> be can be overstimulated and then get physically stress out from
that
> and we Addison's kids then would need more medicine.
>
> I'm glad you were able to get help.
>
> I'm curious - how do they know he had the "start" of diabetes? Did
> they do a genetic test or are they testing his blood sugar and
> insulin?
>
> Julia
>
> --- In apeced@yahoogroups.com, Donna Baggett <ethanbaggett02@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Linda
> >  
> >            I have to let you know that Ethan was not sick when
all
> of this happend.The doctors told me what to look for so this won't
> happen again.I know that it was scary for me.If it had not been for
> us going to get labs i would not have caught it.Thank you so much
for
> you letting me know that ethan is not the only one that this has
> happened to.
> >  
> >  Donna
> >
> > --- On Thu, 8/7/08, lsquittman <lsquittman@> wrote:
> >
> > From: lsquittman <lsquittman@>
> > Subject: [apeced] Re: sodium , potassium and adernal crisis
> > To: apeced@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 3:56 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Donna,
> > I hope Ethan is feeling better. Yes, this is something to watch
out
> > for because during stress times Ethan needs more cortisone. The
> > problem is how much more to give and we don't always get it
right.
> The
> > same thing recently happened to my daughter- high potassium and
low
> CO
> > 2. very dangerous. And the diabetes just compounds the issue.
> > Was Ethan ill when this happened? Had you given him extra Cortef?
> Tara
> > took enough extra the day she had dental surgery but then went
back
> to
> > her normal dose too soon. It is such a balancing act. Perhaps
> Ethan's
> > doctor will give you rule of thumb instructions to prevent this.
> Tara
> > has had Addisons since she was six and has only had two Addison's
> > crisis in the last 30 years if that makes you feel better.
> > Good luck dealing with so many things at once.
> > Linda
> >
> > --- In apeced@yahoogroups. com, "Donna" <ethanbaggett02@ ...>
wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I have a few questions for all of you.Ethan is in the
> > > hospital with an adernal crisis. They have also found that is
> > potassium
> > > is so high that it was affecting his heart and he he can not
keep
> his
> > > sodium levels up.Can any of you tell me if this is something
new
> that
> > > we need to be onthe look out for.The doctors has found out that
> Ethan
> > > has the start of type 1 diabetes.If any of you have any
> information
> > > that would help us we sure would like to know.
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Donna
> > >
> >
>