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<blockquote data-quote="miahara" data-source="post: 1912041" data-attributes="member: 256148"><p>I’m shortly having a C-Peptide test as I’ve queried my T2 diagnosis and suspect I may be LADA or T1.</p><p></p><p>I’m currently taking gliclazide, a sulphonylurea which as far as I understand, pushes my pancreas into producing insulin. Now, to my non-medical mind if the test is to accurately assess insulin production it ought to be done without any artificial boost by the gliclazide and I ought to stop the medication a day or so before the test. I queried this with my GP and she said to keep taking the medication. I think she’s wrong.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p> <strong>What are your views?</strong></p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed T2 three years ago (an underweight diabetic) and at first the gliclazide, and LCHF had a significant impact on my BG and HbA1c, and at one stage I was considered as being in remission with HbA1c 46mmol/l in January this year. However over the year my HbA1c levels have risen considerably and my last test it was 61 mmol/l (7.7 %) and going by my own finger prick tests over the past few months my next test will produce a much higher result. I rather suspect that my pancreas has been pushed to exhaustion by the medication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="miahara, post: 1912041, member: 256148"] I’m shortly having a C-Peptide test as I’ve queried my T2 diagnosis and suspect I may be LADA or T1. I’m currently taking gliclazide, a sulphonylurea which as far as I understand, pushes my pancreas into producing insulin. Now, to my non-medical mind if the test is to accurately assess insulin production it ought to be done without any artificial boost by the gliclazide and I ought to stop the medication a day or so before the test. I queried this with my GP and she said to keep taking the medication. I think she’s wrong. [B] What are your views?[/B] I was diagnosed T2 three years ago (an underweight diabetic) and at first the gliclazide, and LCHF had a significant impact on my BG and HbA1c, and at one stage I was considered as being in remission with HbA1c 46mmol/l in January this year. However over the year my HbA1c levels have risen considerably and my last test it was 61 mmol/l (7.7 %) and going by my own finger prick tests over the past few months my next test will produce a much higher result. I rather suspect that my pancreas has been pushed to exhaustion by the medication. [/QUOTE]
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