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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
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I just got a new health care provider who ordered a bunch of blood tests. Long story short, everything came back looking great! And, I'm not really sure what that means.
I've been told for the past few years, since my Pre-D diagnosis, that as I was youngish (30's) thin, fit, w/ no family history, I'm probably very early LADA. But 3.5 years in, on LC diet and metformin 2-3x/day, my fasting and HbA1c are great (like *normal* great at this last test, even my nemesis IFG was normal by a hair, after moving metformin up from 1000 to 1500 and switching to a job with less travel!), my cholesterol is still great, I still have low-but-still-within-normal-range c-peptide, and now I just found out I'm antibody negative for GAD/IA-2/insulin antibodies.
Everything looks so good in fact that my HCP had to give me a false diagnosis of PCOS to renew my metformin. I guess that's okay (?) because I don't want to go off my medication/diet and get sick again to potentially get a T2 diagnosis. But, I'm not really sure where this leaves me.
My whole situation started directly following a case of mono. I know there's an association between EBV and diabetes onset, but not how that works. Is there a "prediabetes" that is just due to beta cell damage (low insulin production), but which isn't progressive? Pancreatic prediabetes? Is there any hope that I could recover from this someday, since I don't seem to have insulin resistance or autoantibodies--or at least stop worrying about things progressing?
I've been told for the past few years, since my Pre-D diagnosis, that as I was youngish (30's) thin, fit, w/ no family history, I'm probably very early LADA. But 3.5 years in, on LC diet and metformin 2-3x/day, my fasting and HbA1c are great (like *normal* great at this last test, even my nemesis IFG was normal by a hair, after moving metformin up from 1000 to 1500 and switching to a job with less travel!), my cholesterol is still great, I still have low-but-still-within-normal-range c-peptide, and now I just found out I'm antibody negative for GAD/IA-2/insulin antibodies.
Everything looks so good in fact that my HCP had to give me a false diagnosis of PCOS to renew my metformin. I guess that's okay (?) because I don't want to go off my medication/diet and get sick again to potentially get a T2 diagnosis. But, I'm not really sure where this leaves me.
My whole situation started directly following a case of mono. I know there's an association between EBV and diabetes onset, but not how that works. Is there a "prediabetes" that is just due to beta cell damage (low insulin production), but which isn't progressive? Pancreatic prediabetes? Is there any hope that I could recover from this someday, since I don't seem to have insulin resistance or autoantibodies--or at least stop worrying about things progressing?