I posted a couple of months ago asking for prayers, my special needs son who is not obese was diagnosed type 1 diabetic. My second post about it was after blood testing the doctors were baffled he was not type 1, but type 2.
Happy to say he is off insulin now and numbers are staying low. He does take Metformin.
The point of this post is he has no reason to have type 2 diabetes. Except one, he has a complicated medical history and has some brain damage from it. During this time he had some anger issues. The doctors prescribed anti-depressant lexapro. We went along with it, was concerned with his anger.
We weened him off of this medication upon the news of type 2. From research into this drug I am convinced it caused his blood sugar issues. We will attempt to ween off metformin and see if he no longer has any issues after getting off lexapro.
Anti-depressants like lexapro are prescribed at extremely high levels in our society. Diabetes has increased along with it. This is just another example of big pharma and the cdc pushing treatments that are unnecessary and dangerous.
For background see this link
https://greatawakening.win/p/15IYCoKMxE/update--prayers-answered--thank-/
interesting thought. good idea, sometimes I do just put my foot down and not explain things. He also has trouble understanding reasoning when I do explain things.
I can imagine. Try some imaginative ways you can help him feel like there is a BENEFIT to him, even if it might not be entirely true. He probably doesn't like to hear "because Mommy/Daddy/Doctor says so...that's why!". I know I'd be in resistance to such a declaration!
Be playful and creative with it. He probably doesn't register "seriousness" nearly as well as "playfulness". You'll be quite surprised at what you can come up with that he's willing to go along with. I wonder if you can make a cumulative rewards "game" out of things. Just a completely random thought that popped into my head.
Anyway, I'm sure you can come up with lots of better ideas. It's worth a shot as less anger/resistance makes for a happier household any way you slice it.
Good luck!
thanks for your thoughts, I am always looking for better ways to reach my kids.