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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2764087" data-attributes="member: 372207">I think it's even worse with fat 'T2's'. Being fat doesn't protect you in any way from developing an autoimmune condition like T1, but at least being slim and diabetic may give some health care professional the idea that something may not be adding up.I was diagnosed with 'T2'  at 39, with a BMI of 35, of course no-one was going to think anything but T2.  Within weeks it became clear that gliclazide plus cutting carbs definitely didn't do the trick so I as on basal insulin a month after diagnosis, and I begged for bolus insulin shortly after that.Still, the practice nurse who looked after my treatment had no idea why I thought I might be anything but a T2 when I asked for a referral to an endo two years later.</blockquote>

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