Stomach pain and Diabetes

[Michalo]

My child often complains of stomach aches - which I can relate it to having a low.  However, once in a while (since he's been diagnosed 6 years ago) he has bad pain just below his belly button and this last Saturday was the first time I've seen him bent over.  Although by the time we see a dr. the pain is gone no one seems overly concerned but it's not normal.  Has any one had this and what is the cause and what can we do to eliminate this happening again.  Something tells me it's in relation to his Diabetes but am not certain.

[flower63]

i too have a 13 yr old son with type 1 for 7.5 yrs, he has had many days from school and holidays (so not wagging school) with stomach ache, also not feeling hungry. He is a faddy eater but make sure he gets the 5 a day. He is lathargic alot. The dr say the food could sit in stomach and take time to digest and this may be the cause. It is reasurring, if not sad, to know we are not alone. Not nice how many 'off' days he has.

[momoftwinz3]

I have experienced the same reaction.  The best way I can explain it is a gastritus... spelling.. and occasionallyafter that my body goes through a dumping syndrom. I usually end up with the trots.  I think it's part of the diabetes. I also think it tends to happen when I'm a little more stressed.

[jaredsmom]

I am wondering about my son and his similiar stomach pains.  He complains every day that his stomach hurts.  He has also on his own decided not to eat meat and he has limited his dairy.  He is only 12 years old but has had diabetes now for 10 years. I am worried the diabetes has damaged his stomach. Where can I find more information?

[Mom of Em]

My daughter had the same thing last year.  Every couple of weeks for about 8 months she would complain of stomach pain.  School nurse called me at least 3 different times to tell me Em was in the office with a stomach ache but had no other symptoms, her sugar was fine and did not have keytones.  She missed a lot of school, we went to the doctor several times, they did blood work and all kinds of tests but could not find anything wrong.  Every time she would complain and I would keep her home or go pick her up from school, by the time we got to the doctor's office the pain was gone or subsiding.  They suggested giving her antacids as they could not find anything wrong.  The antacids didn't help.  We started thinking it was all in her head or maybe she was doing it for attention.  In reviewing her sugars, I noticed that whenever she was running high for more than 24 hours, (not high enough to cause keytones in Em but maybe in others)it seemed like when she came back down she would crash and have a bad low, then level out and that's when she would get the stomach pains, after her sugar was back to normal.  That is the only thing we could pin point as a pre-cursor to the stomach aches.  She's on a pump now and so far we haven't had this happen any more.  I know that's not much help and I know how frustrated I was when this was going on with her.

[tiernanA]

Thank you I can relate to this after reading ur comment this seems to be when it is happening to my 8yr old son I feel so helpless as there's not much I can do to ease the pain and he is frightened by it !!!

[JDRF-Team-LRS]

Your insight into the pattern for little Em seems to be quite relevant.  Our bodies endure some trauma with a sustained high and a subsequent low.  I could envision that the digestive tract and/or muscles supporting it could experience some element of fatigue thru it all.

While we'd normally expect to see adverse symptoms during the high or low, itself, perhaps it's the total accumulatoin of all that that causes the symptoms in the aftermath.

I'm glad to hear things have levelled out with the pump.  **Thank you** for taking time to share your insights here!

[Michalo]

I apologize, I should mention that I had checked to make sure he did not have Ketones and he didn't - so that wasn't the case.