The blood sugar mystery

This summer while I was nearing the end of my pregnancy, I began to get increasingly frustrated with my almost 7 year old. She would be starving an hour before her meal times, and in that time she was teary and insulting, she would walk away stomping and singing under her breath about how momma hates her and never loved her. It was like she was trying to pick a fight with me. I just dealt with it, and realized if I gave her some food her attitude would instantly be better. I felt like such a push over because I gave in to her cranky. I figured once school started things would be better. What happened was it just became more dramatic. Just a couple weeks ago now, we had her school conference. At her conference we learned that this is happening at school too. All of a sudden things began to fall into place. There was more involved than baby jealousy and school getting harder. We went to the dr. The doctor and I both assumed that we were looking at a case of hypoglycemia where blood sugar drops dramatically before meals. He prescribed a blood sugar monitor and a set of lab tests. We've been charting her blood sugar now for a little over a week. But the mystery lies in what her blood sugar is doing.

In the morning when she wakes up after no food for 8-10 hours her blood sugar is still about 100. This is not typical. Then after she eats it drops down to 90. This is backwards. It should not be like this! In the afternoon after school it jumps to 130 then back down to the 90's after a snack, then before dinner it spikes back up to anywhere between 130-180. About an hour after dinner it will be back down to 100 or so. This pattern is not one I can find any information on. It is making me mental. The fits, Whiney, mean comments, attitude, and just plain nasty are symptoms of the high numbers. She had been especially cranky at me yesterday morning as we readied the house for our church to come over. Finally a lighbulb clicked in my brain and I tested her blood. 180. The highest it had been so far. She always tells me not to yell at her, when in fact I am talking surprisingly calm for someone who is being confronted by such attitude. I asked her if things sounded funny when she was hungry and she said everything seems loud and echos like a tunnel. The dr has asked us to watch what she is eating because her BMI number is high, but now to curb the attitude we have had to start feeding her more often. This is a problem because she always feels starving when she is like this so she over eats. Even if I try to control he portions it's never enough. 

If anyone has any ideas as to what is going on inside this little girl I would love to hear them. We go the results of her blood work today and everything was within the normal range. Dr. Was like it looks fine, lets just feed her more small meals. Then I told him the numbers we've been getting and how it's backwards and now he is referring us to an endocrinologist. I'm hopeing for a quick appointment date, but I'm not holding my breath as there is exactly one pediatric endocrinologist on the island. Oh joy.  That means there is no second opinion either.

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