What does your kiddo say??

[caspi]

My son was dx'd just shy of his 8th birthday. From the very beginning, he would say (and still does say) he feels "funny". The one very important thing I learned early on is to trust him when he says that. Even if the meter says he's in range, we have found that he was dropping and that's why he was feeling "funny". And hungry -- YES, he is always hungry when low!!

His explanation of "funny" is feeling shaky and "just not right".

[Jenneve93]

The one very important thing I learned early on is to trust him when he says that. Even if the meter says he's in range, we have found that he was dropping and that's why he was feeling "funny".

I ditto this. There have been several times when Jack has said he feels low & the meter says he's in range, but we treat anyway because he's dropping. He knows how he feels, so I trust him and go with it. We've never gone wrong trusting his feelings.

[Charliesmom]

Charlie didn't really start voicing lows until preschool and has just gotten really good at voicing lows this year (1st grade). He used to say he feels icky. Now he just says he feels low.

[Beach bum]

My daughter(diagnosed age 4) would say she felt tired or shaky. We were lucky because she would get this odd look and color on her face, so we and those around her would always stop and ask how she felt or would just test her.

In addition to those symptoms she now gets headaches and sweats. We actually had a problem where she was going through a period of being low a lot, too the point she wasn't feeling lows. We are having to retrain her and her body to feel her lows now.

[momandwifeoftype1s]

When Connor was 5, he didn't say "I'm low", but his symptoms were fairly obvious. I described how he looked when he was low as looking like a melting snowman. His face would turn very pale and white and he'd melt to the floor or put his head down on his arms when he was low.

[Meredithsmom]

Meredith was 2 at diagnosis. At about 3 she started noticing lows. She says she feels shakey. She is right about 95% of the time she tells me she feels low. Before she could tell me, and I would test and find out she was low, I would ask her how her body felt. I wanted her to associate that "low" feeling with being low. The first time she told me, I cried.

As for highs, she usually doesn't recognize them. I notice she is thirsty or crabby, or she says she doesn't feel good.

[hawkeyegirl]

For lows, Jack says he feels weak or hungry. But he is 8, and just in the past year he has started catching fast drops. He doesn't feel slow drops at all.

He doesn't feel highs.

[StillMamamia]

When my son is low he says he feels hungry. He also becomes nervous and obnoxious, and sometimes, but rarely, aggressive. When he's high, then he becomed whiny and acts in slow-motion.

[liasmommy2000]

It takes them some time to recognize highs and lows. I would think longer for the younger ones. My dd was five and a half and it took a few months I think. For her she always says she feels shaky. Sometimes she will also feel headachy and nauseous and for some reason when that happens it takes her longer to notice.

One thing I've heard is when you check and see that they are low to ask them how they feel at that moment.

[BittysMom]

Caroline was diagnosed last year at 5. She didn't feel most of her lows but when she did she would say her legs were tired or her belly hurt.