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good morning everyone first time of posting but ii think this is an amazing website my name is sue and i have had a complicated time with my diagnosis from 2005 i went to see my g p after feeling tired but as as i have anemia i put it down to this i did a urine sample and i was sent down to the local diabetic centre withinan hour i was put on insulin by a nurse and sent home with; you have to take 16 units of novomix morning and afternoon i was very confused as i have always been a healthy weight no one in my family with it and did not know anyone with diabetes anyway after nearly killing myself on insulin i started to reduce my dosage after 3 months came off it on my own and my blood sugars were normal i then rang and made an appointment back at the diabetes clinic t o see a consultant he seemed quite surprised he asked if anyone had done any tests i said no he then sent me up to the hospital for the lucozade test and he did a c-peptide test that came back negative and he then said i was not diabetic???? i was fine for 6 yrs and then came home from work one night and felt tired again i still had a metre so checked blood sugars 27 i rang my out of hours and they advised me to go up to a and e they put me on an insulin drip within 5 mins my blood sugars had come down to 5 i was then asked to start on metformin i did this in 2011 and progressed after 4 yrs onto insulin novo rapid and lantus once a day i asked for a c peptide test to be done again and this time they have said i am definatley type 1 very confusing can you become type 1 after being diagnosed as type 2