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- 58
- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hello, I got tested for LADA yesterday. My diabetes journey started a year ago when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, hba1c 50. I went low carb and my 3 month repeat result was hba1c 47, so I thought I was coping with it. But over the summer last year I increasingly felt unwell after eating and my blood sugars more labile. After a particularly unwell day I contacted my GP, my hba1c was 65. At this time metformin was increased to 1000mgs twice a day.
Over the past year my weight has dropped to 55kg, having lost 20kgs. I had gone radically low carb, verging on unhealthy. It all came to a head 4 weeks ago, when I woke up with my blood sugars at 20mmols, glucose and keytones in my urine, it didn't budge and increasingly feeling unwell. So after a week of 3 trips to hospital, multiple phone calls to the GP, I was started on Insulin.
It's a relief now to have found 2 lovely diabetic nurses at the GP and hospital. Whether it's LADA or type 2, doesn't matter as long as I can stabilize my blood sugars moving forward.
Over the past year my weight has dropped to 55kg, having lost 20kgs. I had gone radically low carb, verging on unhealthy. It all came to a head 4 weeks ago, when I woke up with my blood sugars at 20mmols, glucose and keytones in my urine, it didn't budge and increasingly feeling unwell. So after a week of 3 trips to hospital, multiple phone calls to the GP, I was started on Insulin.
It's a relief now to have found 2 lovely diabetic nurses at the GP and hospital. Whether it's LADA or type 2, doesn't matter as long as I can stabilize my blood sugars moving forward.