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<blockquote data-quote="Claire007" data-source="post: 889637" data-attributes="member: 184290"><p>Hi Suzysuze,</p><p>My symptoms started with a raging thirst, and frequent trips to the loo. In the evenings I was having to go about every 45 min and up twice in the night usually. I also developed blurred vision, and dropped around half a stone in a week, this rang alarm bells so I went to the GP who after trying to tell me it was a urine infection, then tested my urine and said my suspicions were probably right, I had diabetes but it was more likely to be type 2 due to my age.</p><p> I went for blood tests the following day and the GP phoned me as soon as they came back. He said given my results they suspected type1 not type2. My hba1c was 108, my fasting BG was 20 and I had ketones +4. I was sent straight to the diabetes centre at our local hospital and started insulin there and then. </p><p>They said they would treat as type1 as too dangerous with such high readings not to. To be honest, I don't think there was any doubt it was type 1. When my GAD test came back it showed antibodies >2200 ( not sure what that means apart from there shouldn't be any, so it is nailed on), but I was treated as a T1 for 6 weeks before the GAD test came back. </p><p></p><p>I hope that helps, what's your situation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Claire007, post: 889637, member: 184290"] Hi Suzysuze, My symptoms started with a raging thirst, and frequent trips to the loo. In the evenings I was having to go about every 45 min and up twice in the night usually. I also developed blurred vision, and dropped around half a stone in a week, this rang alarm bells so I went to the GP who after trying to tell me it was a urine infection, then tested my urine and said my suspicions were probably right, I had diabetes but it was more likely to be type 2 due to my age. I went for blood tests the following day and the GP phoned me as soon as they came back. He said given my results they suspected type1 not type2. My hba1c was 108, my fasting BG was 20 and I had ketones +4. I was sent straight to the diabetes centre at our local hospital and started insulin there and then. They said they would treat as type1 as too dangerous with such high readings not to. To be honest, I don't think there was any doubt it was type 1. When my GAD test came back it showed antibodies >2200 ( not sure what that means apart from there shouldn't be any, so it is nailed on), but I was treated as a T1 for 6 weeks before the GAD test came back. I hope that helps, what's your situation? [/QUOTE]
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