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Are they really bad? It wudnt be so bad injecting just once to control the fasting bloods but I just cudnt inject multiple times a day :-( My fasting levels are usually 7.6 mmol with the odd 6.6 or 6.9 but hardly ever :-(x Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I'm not a doctor or anything but u might have type 1.5 or LADA as some call it. It kind of overlaps both types. U can get ketones like type 1 but u can also have a certain amount of resistance like type 2. Your beta cells are being destroyed by your immune system, like type 1, but you still do...

Do u think pregnancy would accelerate the need to inject? I don't want anymore children as I just don't think I could bear another pregnancy with this disease but my husband does want more kids.... I just know for a fact it will accelerate my condition and make me need insulin quicker...I've...

Hi Jenny, Sorry to hear how lousy you are feeling. Did they run a full blood test on u as in checking c-peptide and checking for antibodies? Many many people are getting diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when really they are late onset type 1. Although you say ur overweight, which would suggest...

I didn't get an appointment for 2 months! The bloods r back within hours, it's the availability of the doctors and the appointments that's not there unfortunately... Be careful with Gliclazide it's not a good drug it completely wrecks ur pancreas and if it isn't helping you control ur levels I...

Yes defo ask for the bloods c-peptide and GAD incase they need to give you some medication help....I don't understand how the Metformin is working for LADA but it is so I might aswell stick with it, I'm on quite a low dose too so there's room to increase if needed. I think there must be a link...

I'm on Metformin 500mg twice a day and its not slow release. I've had some bad gastro side effects but they fade the longer u use it so ive just stuck with it. With regard to cereal I find either Cheerios or Weetabix r the best! (Bran flakes are also gud but I don't really like them much!) I...

My antibodies (GAD65 too) were five times what they should've been, i got a copy of the letter that went to my GP surgery that had the exact number written on so I can compare. Originally I was put on gliclazide and I was between 9 and 18 mmol no matter what I ate so I rang them and demanded to...

Hi Carl, With regards to the sugar... Ignore the 'of which sugars' bit because its irrelevant, all carbs are broken down into sugar so just count the carbs bit :-) welcome to the forum and I'm sure someone will be along soon with intro information for u. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Me too :-( Did u test positive for antibodies? I'm on diet and Metformin which is actually working at the minute for me. But yeh I have only started feeling better the last week or so and I was diagnosed in December, I felt shattered, no energy to the point where I would fall asleep sometimes...

Hi and welcome to the forum! Have you been diagnosed with diabetes? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi everyone, I just wanted to write to everyone in this forum about my own experience to see if I can help anyone! I had my first baby aged 20 in 2006. Prior to pregnancy I was a size 8 and 5ft 4 and my daughter was 8lb 12oz. I was not diagnosed with GD during this pregnancy but in retrospect...

Re: 31 weeks, WORRIED!! last Hba1C 6.4 and slightly larger b I was 20 when I had my first baby she was 8lb 12oz. I was only a size 8 before pregnancy and 5ft 4 but was not diagnosed with GD in my first pregnancy though they now think I might have had it. Fast forward to my second pregnancy and...

Same here.....GAD65 antibody positive at age 26 with no family history so they have me doomed. Not injecting at the moment as levels are between 4 and 7.5 just through diet and Metformin, hence why they haven't classified me as a type 1 yet rather a 1.5, though people in the forum have said I'm...

Diabetes is now legally classed as a disability and is protected under The Equality Act 2010 meaning your employer has a legal obligation to allow you any appointments or allowances or anything else entitled to you by law. They do not get to dictate the times of your appointments and they can't...

I was diagnosed December as a 1.5 :-( Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi everyone, I just want to run something by u all? So I'm annoyingly pedantic and one thing that has bothered me since diagnosis is HOW and WHAT caused my body to murder it's own beta cells and although I might never find out (since the medical profession don't even know) I still keep trying...

What about us type 1.5s? Can we reverse/halt our beta cells from being murdered? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi Sarah, The HbA1c test is a test just to check the average level of ur BS over the last few months so although it tells you you have diabetes it doesn't tell you which type. Defo ask for the c-peptide test and the test for antibodies too, this will tell u whether u just have a resistance or...

Hi Lea! I'm with u in that I've had minimal advice since diagnosis before Xmas but there again they don't even know what is wrong with me yet so it's no surprise! I too was frustrated that I would go to bed on a 5.4 and wake up over 7! It happened all the time and still does, it was never below...