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Message: <blockquote data-quote="martl" data-source="post: 2281018" data-attributes="member: 497890">Hi, good luck with your appointment and sorry to hear about your plight. It's rubbish, especially at this age.I'm just on insulin. I did try out glycazide at one point but my levels shot up. I'm now on hearing aids in both ears as my right ear had deteriorated too but seems to be a few years behind the left. Strangely I'm not actually type 1. I'm not type 2 either. I tested negative for both. Apparently I'm somewhere in between but they don't know what. I just say I'm type 1 as it's easier to explain and because I treat myself very much like a type 1 would.In terms of energy levels I noticed an immediate difference as soon as I started taking insulin. When I was diagnosed diabetic my blood levels were 38! Now I average 6.3. Before I was so lethargic and couldn't get off the sofa or couldn't concentrate on meetings. Playing football would wipe me out the next day. Now I feel normal again.When i started on insulin I put on 10kg in 2 months which at my skinny size was a lot, and now I find it a lot harder to stay in shape.Hope your own journey goes easy on you. Please keep me posted on any developments on the midd front. It's such a rare condition, so info on it is scarce.CheersMartin</blockquote>

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