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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2179670" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>Sort of true, but it's very common for doctors to misdiagnose T1 as T2 because they tend to assume that anyone who is overweight or older (some of them assume that only kids develop T1) must be T2. Then after a couple of years of failed T2 treatment they get rediagnosed as T1. Many older T1s develop the disease very gradually, so that an initial reduction of carbohydrate can keep them off insulin for quite some time.</p><p></p><p>In theory no reason why T2 can't develop T1, but T1 is a rare illness, so not very likely. T1s can become insulin resistant, one of the symptoms of T2, but the other T2 symptom, over production of insulin, isn't an issue because T1s produce no insulin in the long term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2179670, member: 372717"] Sort of true, but it's very common for doctors to misdiagnose T1 as T2 because they tend to assume that anyone who is overweight or older (some of them assume that only kids develop T1) must be T2. Then after a couple of years of failed T2 treatment they get rediagnosed as T1. Many older T1s develop the disease very gradually, so that an initial reduction of carbohydrate can keep them off insulin for quite some time. In theory no reason why T2 can't develop T1, but T1 is a rare illness, so not very likely. T1s can become insulin resistant, one of the symptoms of T2, but the other T2 symptom, over production of insulin, isn't an issue because T1s produce no insulin in the long term. [/QUOTE]
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