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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2285621" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi there, LADA is actually type 1 but a slower onset (LADA isn't even recognised by my Consultant although the term is fairly common). I was diagnosed as 'pre diabetic' and then 3 years later ended up in hospital with DKA. They veered between type 2 (purely because of my age in my 50s) and type 1 because of my presentation and not fitting the so called type 2 profile in any other way. I was started straight away on long & short acting insulin whilst they did a C Peptide test and an antibody test. Both confirmed type 1.</p><p></p><p>I think you should contact your Consultant and request you be given short acting insulin to take for your meals. They are pretty amenable to your needs (as a type 1 anyway), all you need to say is that your levels are rising with meals and you are reluctant to eat normally for you because of this. They may have just started you on Lantus only just to see how you went as you might well be in the honeymoon period, meaning you may still be producing some of your own insulin. What are your levels like?, they will be perfectly happy with the hb1ac of 45 which may be why they have left you on Lantus only BUT that is restricting you for which there is no logical need. Ask for short acting and any adjustments can be made with Lantus at the same time to balance you out. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2285621, member: 451727"] Hi there, LADA is actually type 1 but a slower onset (LADA isn't even recognised by my Consultant although the term is fairly common). I was diagnosed as 'pre diabetic' and then 3 years later ended up in hospital with DKA. They veered between type 2 (purely because of my age in my 50s) and type 1 because of my presentation and not fitting the so called type 2 profile in any other way. I was started straight away on long & short acting insulin whilst they did a C Peptide test and an antibody test. Both confirmed type 1. I think you should contact your Consultant and request you be given short acting insulin to take for your meals. They are pretty amenable to your needs (as a type 1 anyway), all you need to say is that your levels are rising with meals and you are reluctant to eat normally for you because of this. They may have just started you on Lantus only just to see how you went as you might well be in the honeymoon period, meaning you may still be producing some of your own insulin. What are your levels like?, they will be perfectly happy with the hb1ac of 45 which may be why they have left you on Lantus only BUT that is restricting you for which there is no logical need. Ask for short acting and any adjustments can be made with Lantus at the same time to balance you out. x [/QUOTE]
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