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Hi all So I’m just over a year of being diagnosed diabetic (I was misdiagnosed type 2) and coming up to a year of being diagnosed Type 1/LADA. I work as a care assistant with the elderly. I enjoy my job but it is difficult with the demand and staffing levels etc. I am on novorapid, levemir and...

Hello I am 26 years old and was diagnosed with Late-onset type 1( 1.5/LADA) in September 2021, after a misdiagnosis of type 2 in the July. I’m not sure what “caused” my diabetes. But my hba1c was VERY high at almost 160. In November I had my 2nd hba1c taken and it was just below 80, (still...

Does anyone here live in the UK and know where I could pay to get a C-Peptide? My GP are sending me round and round with no answers. I got told I needed one, had bloods taken at the GP to then be contacted and told that they can’t do the test as their results for this take too long (??) and I’d...

Hi (This is long I am sorry) I am newly diagnosed T2 diabetes (4 days ago) I was experiencing classic symptom of excessive thirst and peeing a lot. Looking back I had other symptoms such as my hair thinning but I put this down to stress etc. I got a hbac1 test with a chemist and it was...