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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2669136" data-attributes="member: 372207">I have absolutely no idea!Or maybe, but this is pure speculation, their thinking was along the lines of ruling out you don't produce insulin at all. Gliclazide forces the pancreas to produce more insulin, which lowers blood glucose. If you can't produce insulin at all, gliclazide doesn't work. So maybe, just maybe, they used it to see if you are at least producing some insulin. If you wouldn't produce any insulin, in a way you would develop a 'tummy ache', which is a giant understatement to describe DKA, but yes, a tummy ache is one of the symptoms.Which would be pretty creative thinking, but who knows?It's a useless way to tell T1 from T2, with the exception of having a very quickly developing T1. Which isn't common in adults, we tend to slowly lose our insulin production.</blockquote>

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