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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi there!
Not sure where to start!
So about 3-4 years ago was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic (with all the symptoms). Big shock and a massive lifestyle change, completely changed diet. Had an initial response with my BM's falling to 'normal' target range. However it was becoming increasingly hard to control my BM with diet alone. I'd lost weight (lost 60+kg) and worked hard at the diet. Met a new diabetic consultant who ran a battery of new tests and what not. I was found to be GAD+ve and most likely LADA but we're still not sure. Consultant was happy to keep me off insulin for a little while so long as my HBa1c didn't rise (which it didn't!)
Had a bad couple of weeks, lower will power, higher stress levels and the introduction of gliclazide, which was all enough to push me over the edge and have sugars sufficient enough to throw my ketones way up! 26 hours in A+E / hospital was sufficient to get me started on a new insulin regime. Still don't have a formal diagnosis, guessing I might never get a straight answer but after a lot of reading around LADA and the deteroriation following gliclazide I'm happy enough to consider myself 1.5 but going to call myself type 1 for the sake of ease with family and friends!!
After 4 years of a very controlled diet it feels odd to be a little more liberated and trying what a 'normal' diet is like. Now a week into the new regime, learning the hard way what my daily hypo feels like as well as learning that hypo's don't give me the free pass to eat all the cake I want!
For the past 2 years my HBa1c has been around 60mmol/mol or 7.6%.
Current med regime is 15u levemir and 5u of novarapid with my meals, not adjusting dosage dependent on each meal (yet, assuming I will be clever enough at some point to that!).
Just wanted to say hi and give a bit of background on me in case anyone else is going through similar...
Josh
Not sure where to start!
So about 3-4 years ago was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic (with all the symptoms). Big shock and a massive lifestyle change, completely changed diet. Had an initial response with my BM's falling to 'normal' target range. However it was becoming increasingly hard to control my BM with diet alone. I'd lost weight (lost 60+kg) and worked hard at the diet. Met a new diabetic consultant who ran a battery of new tests and what not. I was found to be GAD+ve and most likely LADA but we're still not sure. Consultant was happy to keep me off insulin for a little while so long as my HBa1c didn't rise (which it didn't!)
Had a bad couple of weeks, lower will power, higher stress levels and the introduction of gliclazide, which was all enough to push me over the edge and have sugars sufficient enough to throw my ketones way up! 26 hours in A+E / hospital was sufficient to get me started on a new insulin regime. Still don't have a formal diagnosis, guessing I might never get a straight answer but after a lot of reading around LADA and the deteroriation following gliclazide I'm happy enough to consider myself 1.5 but going to call myself type 1 for the sake of ease with family and friends!!
After 4 years of a very controlled diet it feels odd to be a little more liberated and trying what a 'normal' diet is like. Now a week into the new regime, learning the hard way what my daily hypo feels like as well as learning that hypo's don't give me the free pass to eat all the cake I want!
For the past 2 years my HBa1c has been around 60mmol/mol or 7.6%.
Current med regime is 15u levemir and 5u of novarapid with my meals, not adjusting dosage dependent on each meal (yet, assuming I will be clever enough at some point to that!).
Just wanted to say hi and give a bit of background on me in case anyone else is going through similar...
Josh
