Thanks again to you all!!!!! You're wonderful! I canNOT believe how the 'outside world' is reacting to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My sister in law said that "Valarie needs to know that this isn't an excuse for her to not eat right, or live a healthful life!!"
My mother said "Her insulin was probably elevated because she ate sugar before the test......" @@ Another woman said something along the lines of "Well it's not a big deal anymore. She'll take some medicine and be fine, she doesn't need to be upset." My aunt was going to cancel their long awaited cake decorating class so Valarie wouldn't be tempted to eat the wrong foods. Other people think that if she loses weight then all her problems will be fixed. I'm finding that it's just something that I'd rather keep out of discussion because people really seem uneducated and make comments that end up being really hurtful. SO, when everyone calls wanting to know what happened, I'm just going to tell them that "Valarie would rather I didn't talk about it, as she feels it's private. She'll be fine though"......
She was really upset last night, but is a bit better today. She said that "I just want to be normal, but even when I'm normal I'm not normal." I told her that the medication will help her to become 'normal' and she replied that she "wanted to do it on her own like other girls get to do...."
On another note. I just got the fax from the doctor with the lab results. It's interesting because a lot of the results won't indicate if it's normal range or not as they don't have a pediatric range. However, after searching the web, I found a site (
http://www.labcorp.com/pdf/Pediatric...ology_0981.pdf) that gives pediatric ranges. The testosterone and LH ones were high according to that.
Not sure what to post here, or even if you all will know what they mean, but here are the ones that I think you'd want.
Estradiol - 60
FSH - 4.8
LH - 12.9
Testosterone - 69
Insulin - 22
Cortisol - 11.6