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I was admitted to hospital with diabetes in 1991, without any blood tests to determine if I was type1 or type 2 I was put straight on insulin and was treated as type 1 for 27 years then after blood tests I was told I was type 2 after all this time. Should I have been put straight on Insulin...

Sugars vary widely and unpredictable Hba1c is 49.so overhaul control is ok, I inject a lot to keep my sugars low. Through the night my sugars rise , I have been told that my liver is pumping glucose out so at 7 am I inject around 14+ units (without eating food) of fast acting to try to slow...

My sugars were around 24 mmol at that time but it was several months after being diagnosed waiting to see the hospital consultant but things got so bad I was rushed in

One consultant i seen several years ago was so nasty saying I must be taking steroids as my blood sugars were so unpredictable and that I could never put my hand on my heart and say otherwise!!!

Wow

I was 30 years old in 1991. I was very fit but at the time I was rushed in to hospital I had ketoacidosis so well underweight For the future I think I just continue on as I always have, I did ask the consultant who requested the gad test "was I misdiagnosed" and I could see him very defensive...

Thank you. I have asked questions on why I was put straight on insulin without any tests and the answer I got back was that the doctors at that time probably thought I needed it!

Sometimes I needed very little insulin and other times I needed quite a lot. This is still the case now Hi. Yes a clinical pathologist had some bloods sent away I think it was called (gad tests) and he said this confirmed i was T2

Hi, i was diagnosed with T1 in 1991 and imediatly put on insulin and for 27 years and was treated for this. I have always been a strange case and sent to several different consultants and a proffesor in st Barts many yrs ago. In 2018 I was told I have T2 not type 1 anymore Has anyone else had...