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I’m shortly having a C-Peptide test as I’ve queried my T2 diagnosis and suspect I may be LADA or T1.
I’m currently taking gliclazide, a sulphonylurea which as far as I understand, pushes my pancreas into producing insulin. Now, to my non-medical mind if the test is to accurately assess insulin production it ought to be done without any artificial boost by the gliclazide and I ought to stop the medication a day or so before the test. I queried this with my GP and she said to keep taking the medication. I think she’s wrong.
What are your views?
I was diagnosed T2 three years ago (an underweight diabetic) and at first the gliclazide, and LCHF had a significant impact on my BG and HbA1c, and at one stage I was considered as being in remission with HbA1c 46mmol/l in January this year. However over the year my HbA1c levels have risen considerably and my last test it was 61 mmol/l (7.7 %) and going by my own finger prick tests over the past few months my next test will produce a much higher result. I rather suspect that my pancreas has been pushed to exhaustion by the medication.
I’m currently taking gliclazide, a sulphonylurea which as far as I understand, pushes my pancreas into producing insulin. Now, to my non-medical mind if the test is to accurately assess insulin production it ought to be done without any artificial boost by the gliclazide and I ought to stop the medication a day or so before the test. I queried this with my GP and she said to keep taking the medication. I think she’s wrong.
What are your views?
I was diagnosed T2 three years ago (an underweight diabetic) and at first the gliclazide, and LCHF had a significant impact on my BG and HbA1c, and at one stage I was considered as being in remission with HbA1c 46mmol/l in January this year. However over the year my HbA1c levels have risen considerably and my last test it was 61 mmol/l (7.7 %) and going by my own finger prick tests over the past few months my next test will produce a much higher result. I rather suspect that my pancreas has been pushed to exhaustion by the medication.
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