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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi so here's my story in late September 2015 I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and was put on a number of oral tablet meds (first Metformin then Gliclazide and then Actos) but was slowly taken off them after certain side effects occurred and was causing me great pain or great inconvenience (I was taken off Actos due to the risk of cancer and weight gain). So then I was put on Jardiance and life was good exercise and diet and taking the medication was controlling my blood glucose very well but was causing almost daily severe charley horses. Finally my doctor said that it was time to reduce my dosage as I was improving and he didn't want to cause damage to my muscles in my legs due to the charley horses. To make a long story short due to a high pharmaceutical cost I was put on Forxiga and only on the 5mg pill. Then all hell broke loose my blood sugars sky rocketed 18mmol/L and 23mmol/L were becoming common things and for 6 months this was an almost daily occurrence. Finally my doctor said that this wasn't good and put me on Gliclazide and Glumetza (a type of slow releasing Metformin). However that didn't control my sugar levels so he added Gluconorm (also known as repaglinide) then came the acute pancreatitis and I was taken off Gluconorm and finally put on Novolin N and NovoRapid. However looking up certain things on the Internet (I know they say never look things up on the internet) trying to see if anyone else was going through what I am and I found that some type 2's are misdiagnosed and do in fact have LADA. My question is am I worrying for nothing or do I have a legit concern here?