Can you be type 1 and type 2 ?????

Please can anyone shed any light on what my sons consultant keeps saying to him. He was diagnosed as type 1 at the age of 14. After changing medication and being placed on lantus his weight increased significantly (the dietician has now told us it was because his lantus was way too high and he was always over compensating with his hypos). The consultant has now put him on metformin aswell saying that he is now type 1 and type 2? How can this be possible? I have googled it and cant find any evidence that this is right. I have never had any confidence in my sons consultant, we are currently seeing the dietician every week and have learnt more about being type 1 in a month than we have in 4 years with the consultant. Has anyone else been told that they are both type 1 and 2? :roll:

Thank you so much for your replies. I have looked at the links which are really helpful. I am annoyed at the same time, as soon as AJ was given Lantus he started to put on weight. I kept telling the consultant that I was concerned about this - his reply was that his HB1c was falling and that was all that mattered. In reality his HB1c was falling because he was always in hypo - and eating too much to compensate! Something that only really fell into place when we started to see the dietician. The other sad thing is that AJ loves sport and going to the gym - but every time he did any thing he would go into hypo ...... and eat ...... and so the cycle continued! Hopefully we can now put all this behind us - the nurse has reduced the lantus (by 25%), the hypos at night have stopped, and the weight is dropping (slowly).
Thank you once again!

I Have asked about a pump before - AJ was really up for trying one as our clinic had a trial going when he was first diagnosed and there was a lot of talk about the positive benefits of it ...... but now his new consultant is totally against pumps and wont even entertain a discussion about them. AJ is due to change consultants soon as he is moving into the adult clinic, so maybe then there may be a change of attitude and we can look into it properly. The dietician has given us loads of informnation about counting carbs (can you believe that we werent told this before ... when he was diagnosed we were told to look at the sugars and have been doing this ever since!!! - and it wasnt through ignorance on our part, I read loads of stuff but each time I spoke to the consultant I was told that I was wrong, that the insulin wasnt causing the weight gain, that AJ had to inject even if he had a no carb meal etc - yes I am annoyed that I have had such a lot of bad info! and no I cant wait for AJ to change consultants!!!!) I wish I'd discovered this site earlier! With any exercise he is still having hypos - he has tried starting exercise at 9 and having an apple juice and banana before hand, but even then he finishes really low - 1.6 yesterday. I want to encourage the gym sessions, but dont know what he can do about this at the moment.

Thank you! Us mums can be very embarrassing - but we all care really! (and trust me I have given AJ his fair share of embarrassment over the years!!) Before we see the consultant we have a discussion and he sets out the ground rules about how much I am allowed to speak my mind The consultant has started to ask the nurse to ask AJ to come in on his own .... but AJ always tells her that he wants me there. Just as well really, with all the mis info I would have thought that AJ had got it all wrong, not the consultant. Luckily the dietician is absolutely lovely - and a massive massive help!

Oooooh thats really interesting. Can I ask why you have decided on a pump? Do you exercise much? and if you do, do you hypo? And did your consultant suggest the pump? Or was it something that you looked into and decided may be a better option for you? Sorry for all the questions! :wink: Now you know why the consultant doesnt like me!!!! :lol: