• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Does Type 1 always require insulin from the outset

DiamondAsh

DiamondAsh

Well-Known Member
Messages
641
Location
Walsall
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Dislikes
Disregard for authority. Noise.
If Type 1 always requires insulin from the outset (and I've read somewhere, that it does) then the diabetes in my family is Type 2. But it is strange, to me, that both my mom and her dad got it at the exact same age of 56. Could that trait be hereditary?
 
could it be a form of LADA rather than type 2 (easy for docs to confuse)?
 
FergusCrawford said:
could it be a form of LADA rather than type 2 (easy for docs to confuse)?
Click to expand...
I guess so, but as my mom has been treated for the past 30 years, starting on Diet, tablets and finally insulin does that rule out Type 1
 
I am no expert but could be a slow onset form of T1 (insulin secreting cell function gradually being destroyed rather than a massive "all in one" destruction as typical in "classical T1")
Did her insulin requirements reflect a great insulin resistance or did it reflect the "normal T1's needs?
 
FergusCrawford said:
I am no expert but could be a slow onset form of T1 (insulin secreting cell function gradually being destroyed rather than a massive "all in one" destruction as typical in "classical T1")
Did her insulin requirements reflect a great insulin resistance or did it reflect the "normal T1's needs?
Click to expand...

Aha! I see what you mean now. That could be it. It's not easy for me to accertain becuase my mom doesn't really understand it herself. That has answered my question.. many thanks. :cat:
 
Hi. Yes, could be LADA which can come on at varying rates. It is T1 but it comes on during life rather than at birth/early years. Many of us have gone thru the 'you're a T2' route thru tablets and then insulin when we actually have a failing pancreas and are a LADA. When you are not overweight and can't easily control your blood sugar even with tablets and a low-carb diet then you are probably a LADA. There are two tests that can help confirm it. The final treatment will normally be insulin
 
See if your doc will do a GAD test, this can confirm auto-immune and possible late onset T1, ( LADA ), rather than T2. Many docs won't do this test unfortunately though due to cost.


Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
 
Daibell said:
Hi. Yes, could be LADA which can come on at varying rates. It is T1 but it comes on during life rather than at birth/early years. Many of us have gone thru the 'you're a T2' route thru tablets and then insulin when we actually have a failing pancreas and are a LADA. When you are not overweight and can't easily control your blood sugar even with tablets and a low-carb diet then you are probably a LADA. There are two tests that can help confirm it. The final treatment will normally be insulin
Click to expand...

that sounds about right... I remember my mom (when she was diag'd) carrying extra weight, esp around her middle. She controlled it with diet alone for many years.. then tablets and now insulin and the tablets...
 
mo1905 said:
See if your doc will do a GAD test, this can confirm auto-immune and possible late onset T1, ( LADA ), rather than T2. Many docs won't do this test unfortunately though due to cost.


Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
Click to expand...
thans Mo, I will ask the district nurses if she's ever had a test like that. She probably has and I just don't know about it. She always managed alone with it all. I only started looking after her last year when she broke a bone in her foot. SO I am still educating myself ...
 
Back
Top