insulin and water as i have found helps a lot. insulin alone just takes too long so to help it i drink water. :D
talk to ur parents about it and see if they can give you a little more freedom but u have to prove to them u can be independent
if your parents say it is okay to test in class then you can test in class. And if she asks to see how many water bottels you drink when your high. By law you dont have to show her that or anything else you dont feel comfortable with.
It's been awhile since i was in middle school...okay not that long but... talk to your parents tell them how it is making you feel. The nurse really has NO RIGHT to do that! Really tho, talk to your parents and have them talk to the school!
And by her not allowing you to check your sugars in class..it is AGAINST the law! Most of her "requirements" are against the law if your parents have not asked her to do so.
I totally know how you feel! I am in middl school now also and for the last few years I had to got to the school nurse and check my blood sugar and do my insulin injection in front of her, plus tell her what I was having for lunch. Well that got old fast! I talked to my mom about how I felt she was crowding me and I now do all my diabetic stuff on my own. BUT I found that with out her looking over my shoulder its waaaay easier to slack off a bit-or a bunch, so just be very careful to stay on track! :) Good Luck!
a couple days after getting on my pump(last week!!!!), i had this really high blood sugar so i phoned my mom. she told me to take the correction bolus and then to tell her what it was. it was 3.1 units. one of the first aid people came and was listening to what i was saying. she thought my blood sugar was 3.1 and was trying to make me have juice to bring it up when what i wanted was for it to come down . i was telling her its not that bad and her response was 3.1 is very low! ive had a blood sugar of 1.6 and could think clearly! so then i had to explain that 3.1 was the insulin dose. i was annoyed because i was scared and thought my pump wasnt working. luckily the problem was excercise.
my school had a big news paper atrcal and a big fight with the parnts and the school. but neeless to say parents won.
i know exactly how you feel
my school nurse thinks she knows eveyrything about anything. so when im low i have a chart that my doctor made up whos a professional at this not the nurse! haha. and anyways say one day i went down to only sixty four then i would take one glucose tablet. my nurse is always saying go ahead take more take more you need to take more your going to go low. and its like lady i know what im doing! and then also she makes up her own little rules all the time. it takes me forever to get to lunch just because of her. when i check i have to "keep document" and i also have to tell her everything and i have to show her how much insulin "just incase i do it wrong" then i finally get to go to lunch. but now its apparently different. now apparently she doesnt have to when before she had to that it was a "something" she had to do. also when i was on shots she overdosed me on insulin and when i was home my sugar wouldnt come up. finally we figured out that she gave me to much insulin but she blamed it on me because i shouldve known what i was doing when i had only had the disease for three weeks. also when we were trying to figure out which insertion kit we needed to use for my pump needle i had been going high. really high. so as all of you know when your high you have no idea whats going on in the world. so i was in class and my mom called in and asked what my BS had been when i checked the secretaries said she didnt check. so my mom came in and when i was called to the office she immediately noticed that i was high. my eyes were all big and wide and i didnt know what i was doing. when i checked i was four hundred almost five hundred. the nurse then said she "misunderstood" my mom when my mom specificly said that i had to check at a certain time because of the problems we were having. its been an ordeal with this all! shes soo aggravating i have so many more stories then this but what i now do is my principal is totaly in charge. shes actually a type two diabetec and instead of doing what "she thinks" is right she calls my mom first unlike my nurse. so i would reccoment trying that hopefuly it helps and dont get to stressed! aha at least try not to ! =)
best of luck,
allie
I'm in middle school too.I just walk into the office and the nurse doesnt really mind. I mean, she knows i have diabetes, she just trusts us [theres 3] about not lying about our numbers. We have passes for water bottles, and are allowed to carry purses with food in them incase we go low.