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Exactly this. I have PIP now, not because I'm T1, but due to the cardiac damage and autonomic neuropathy over 63 years. Along with a spinal injury. You need to be quite unwell, in need of daily help to do normal stuff and movement restricted. 6 month process, 40 page forms, medical assesment...

LADA is effectively T1, but with some of the gifts of T2 in terms of insulin resistance and weight gain? Note that your Libre 2 Sensor also takes test strips, I find after 4 months they are very close. My 1AC is dowm from ~10 to 6.8. The biggest change, moving from 4 to a dozen+ tests per day...

What did you have to fund (in the UK?) ?

Goodness, hopeless out of date NHS dietary advice. The lower your carbohydrate intake and fewer the calories the better, the less insulin you will need and the better your control will be. Giving up bread etc will be your biggest achievement. My 1ac is ~6.8, no more than 1500kCal, 22 units of...

Although I'm old anyway I recently came off Metformin for 6 months after many years then resumed. I think the answer is a yes. Not cataclysmic but discernable. As a diabetic in the UK you are entitled to a steady stream of Cialis (or Viagra) if you needed it anyway. Not that you'll be told, so...

Do you know that Metformin is available as a liquid? As LADA and was taking 4x glucophage horse tablets daily. Gave them up (oesophagitis) but insulin requirement soared. Happened to switch to a new hospital team and Consultant, she immediately told me about the liquid and questioned why it had...

I'm struggling not to make any smart comments But yeah probably only in relation to constipation. But, it's a big but (couldn't resist) diabetes could be retarding your ability to heal. If it persists you should deffo talk to your local support team or the GP, I expect it it could be a route...

I'm late to the party but just broke the screen of my A5X in a fall and couldn't find a screen repair locally. It seems to have panned out well, Dewsbury hospital diabetic support have given me a Libre 2 reader today. Apparently these were previously out of stock. It is smaller and lighter. But...