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Hey Sarah, The same thing happened to me, I had normal but low c-peptide and a whole bunch of GAD antibodies, my BS is currently quite well controlled with Metformin so I'm not at the insulin stage yet. I've been told I'm in a honeymoon period and not to get my hopes up but I have seen people...

Hi Sarah have you had full bloods done as in have they checked your c-peptide levels and checked for any antibodies in ur blood? Many people are being diagnosed as type 2 when in fact they could be type 1.5 and for some type 1.5s the medication taken for type 2 just will not work because insulin...

Thanks smidge. It seems ur right, I'm feeling a little better last night and today and I'm back between 7 and 8 phew! I read on here someone who was using tablets to medicate but got flu and it destroyed all the rest of their beta cells nd they had to go onto insulin straight away so I was...

Thanks I'm just always worrying about how long I have left before I get to the awful insulin stage. The last two days I have developed a cold and feel really really run down and the last two days my levels have been between 7 and 9 mmol which is high for me....could it be possible that having a...

Hi, I find ur post really interesting because I developed gestational diabetes at 30 weeks when Pregnant with my son. I was a heathy weight, no family history and it was treated with Metformin and regarded as type 2. When I had my GTT test done 6 weeks after I had my son (who was huge born -...

HI Neil! I know how u feel! I was diagnosed the week before Christmas, initially as type 2 (age 26 with a BMI of 22.5???) and put onto gliclazide. I was on it for two weeks and couldn't get my levels below 9 no matter what I did! I rang my GP and demanded to be put on Metformin and I now take 2...

Hi Sharron, I am not an expert on anything like this and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but the antibodies that would suggest diabetes are specific to the cells they destroy (beta cells or islets, GAD or ICA) and so, because the antibodies in Graves' disease specifically affects...

Thanks icecoffee, my fasting levels r always above 7 which really frustrates me but the small Metformin dose is keeping all other levels between 4 and 6.5 most of the time with just some basic carb reduction and replacement so I guess I just have to try and slow it down as much as possible? I...

Thanks everyone, no I wasn't on insulin during pregnancy just Metformin same as now and it worked even better then, I didn't go above 7 mmol ever when I was pregnant apart from when I ate one piece of candy floss (so obviously went high). There is literally nobody in my family who has diabetes...

Also I don't have any other antibodies just GAD which were 4 times the normal level..... Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I'm newly diagnosed with type 1.5 diabetes which is just another name for LADA and I can't stop stressing and worrying about it either as my results r so baffling! I'm taking a very very low dose of Metformin at the moment twice a day and I'm getting the best post meal readings (5.4) after...

Thanks everyone.... It's just like I'm half and half at the minute! I've had levels of 5.4 mmol before bed and then when I wake up in the morning it's 7.4 mmol!? How does that work when I haven't eaten anything? Is that more linked to type 1 or type 2? I have no idea what my pancreas is doing...

Hi everyone, I'm glad I found this page as I am so confused that no one news what's wrong with me that it's really starting to get me down! I had gestational diabetes in 2010 which went away after I had my son. No family history of diabetes at all and I'm 26 with a BMI of 22.5 so my weight is...

Hi everyone... I guess I will start at the start which is to say that I developed gestational diabetes in 2010 while pregnant with my son. There is no family history of diabetes or gestational diabetes at all and during my pregnancy it was easily controlled with Metformin. Six weeks after I had...