Any examples of neuropathy with late onset T1D?

[Wee eck]

I’m late onset T1D (2 years ago) at 67 but now experiencing nerve type issues … very tender finger tips, stiff wrists, carpal tunnel syndrome, soles of feet, persistent diarrhoea. I monitor glucose levels well with Libre 2.
Professional advice appears only to link neuropathy to long term T1D and poor glucose monitoring.
Unless someone knows differently?

 

[NicoleC1971]

Out of interest are you confirmed as type 1 taking insulin? The only thing that springs to mind is that some people have gradually run out of insulin as undiagnosed type 2 or 1.5 so might have had damage occurring over a long period of years which is the normal cause of damage to the micro vessels.
As I recall the normal time from diagnosis to damage is about 20 years of abnormal glucose levels but I suppose its possible age has made this process more acute?
Sorry and I hope you can get help stabilising the symptoms which do sound like gastroparesis and neuropathy but perhaps need confirming as being linked to your diagnosis.

 

[Wee eck]

Thanks Nicole. My GP checked back and my blood glucose result a year before onset of T1D was normal.
I should add a few other conditions since the diagnosis…. taste sensation has reduced (with no knowledge of Covid infection). Dry mouth which is sensitive to hot drinks or food.
I am indeed on insulin.

 

[david4503]

Thanks Nicole. My GP checked back and my blood glucose result a year before onset of T1D was normal.
I should add a few other conditions since the diagnosis…. taste sensation has reduced (with no knowledge of Covid infection). Dry mouth which is sensitive to hot drinks or food.
I am indeed on insulin.

If your GP had blood glucose results going back more than a year, that might be helpful. And as I wind up reminding every new doctor I see, the answer doesn’t always have to be the diabetes to the exclusion of everything else.