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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 268162" data-attributes="member: 12578">Stephen,  I'm not surprised. This is not what I think now, but was what I thought at diagnosis. I  lost a lot of weight before official diagnosis. It happened in 2 distinct phases, separated by  almost 3years. I went  from overweight to the middle of normal BMI and from there to underweight. Long story, but  after the first weight loss I self diagnosed T2.I  managed to 'treat'  the symptoms caused by my declining pancreas with diet and exercise.(after all I reasoned, that's what a doctor would tell me to to.. just a mild condition; or so I thought. Far easier not to go to a strange doctor and try to explain in a language I didn't speak well.)  It was after the second weight loss that I ended up in hospital for 10 days. I was  shocked that I needed insulin, flabbberghasted that they said I had T1 but there was a  rather strange relief that it wasn't T2 . There was nothing I could have done about it. I could stop blaming myself.And when  I left the hospital weighing 52Kg (I'd put on weight) , I bumped into a French acquaintance . I told  her I had  just spent time in hospital and had diabetes. This lady,  who had never seen me as anything but thin, said  'you must have been eating too much of our good French food".Those stereotypes are strong, for a long time I told anyone who would  listen all about LADA and that T1 was autoimmune and not at all the same as T2. So yes, I can quite understand the feelings of those T1 parents, some of whom have had to deal with their children being bullied as a result of the misconceptions and stereotypes. Oh and Sid, sorry to say but I'm a Guardian reader. :lol:</blockquote>

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