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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
It has now been roughly two months since I was diagnosed as diabetic and in those couple of months I have learned a lot. The one thing I haven't yet learned is my type as going on age and weight you would have looked at me and say Type 2, but I presented with Type 1 symptoms. Initially I was put on insulin but after a few weeks came off that and put on Metformin, just one tablet a day at breakfast. Now in that time I have seen various professionals with differing opinions:
- Initially there were the nurses at the A&E who were convinced I was Type 2.
- Then there was the consultant who said she believed I was Type 1 due to those symptoms more typical of Type 1.
- Following on from that there is the DNS at the hospital who thinks I will end up being diagnosed Type 2 but won't ignore that I may actually be LADA.
- The dietician who I spoke to was more inclined to say I was Type 1 and would be on Insulin full time within 6 months, we shall see in 4 months then.
- The GP at my practice who looks after diabetic patients says that he isn't sure but thinks I will be classed Type 2 eventually.
- Then there is the diabetic nurse at the GPs who thinks I am Type 2 purely because of my age and weight at diagnosis.
- But then there is my general GP who took a look at my readings and says that my control and that I can even eat a large carb meal with no spike screams LADA and the honeymoon phase whilst 1 Metformin a day is doing nothing at all.