Why can’t we just value Alexandra’s great input to the forum now that she has explained in detail to everyone where she’s coming from medically and be kind and supportive.
No but you too can achieve a hba1c identical to @Alexandra100. As me.Well it is a good job I am not a healthcare professional, merely a forum user with diabetes who can not possibly diagnose such a disease . You are what you are diagnosed. I am not stating solely that HBA1C is an indicator of diabetes, but it's a tool used towards diagnosis. I am a type 1 diabetic who has been in the prediabtic zone before, having been as low as 41mmol/L. Unfortunately I will never be relieved of my diabeticness
Spot on. Please do stay @Alexandra100 . You were one of the first to welcome meIsn't it @Alexandra100 's right to not press for a diagnosis (or to) or indeed declare one to us.
We are all here to give our support and limited knowledge.
@JohnEGreen thanks! I didn't realise "Rather not say" was an option. I'm using that for now, but ....
I could be Dr Jason Fung standing next to a chubby guy in a grey polo shirt... who knows?
Which is why, following @Alexandra100 criticising my avatar status, I changed it from Type 2 to "Type 2 (in remission)" rather than "I have reversed my type 2". And as remission and reversal can only be achieved without the use of medication, it will not happen to type 1s, even with low HbA1cs.
I am leaving the Forum. The Mods insist I change my title to "I do not Have Diabetes" and conceal my belief that I may be heading in the direction of LADA. I am not willing to do that. I shall miss you all very much and I wish you all a happy and super-healthy future.
Probably about to faint due to fasting!I thought you were leaning on him to keep you upright
Exactly we are free to describe our diabetes any way we want to including "prefer not to say"Why does someone's classification on their profile even matter the slightest....?
If I was Type1 l would put more faith in the experience of a fellow Type1 than a Type2 who had read it on the internet.Why does someone's classification on their profile even matter the slightest....?
I think if we keep in mind even moderators are human and have similiar emotions to me. I take the bitter pill of their reminders and get on.
Its often not shown in words the mods sincerity. I've come to understand that.
Like any relationship. Things can be expressed or construed as far worse, depending in our own mood.
That's relationships.
@Alexandra100 has accepted the need for clarification, to all.
I've been lucky to converse in the past so I knew OPs status by listening. Very rarely do I take notice of labels. Unless I'm forced.
I very rarely judge a book by it's cover either.
I like to make my own mind up.
Even asking a poster can clarify alot. Which I know many of us do already.
A few words often don't say it all.
Hi. Don't go! Note that the c-peptide test can be more useful than the GAD. I had both done privately as my GP wouldn't co-operate. The c-peptide shows your insulin level and hence the treatment needed. The GAD test often only tests for that one anti-body and doesn't detect damage thru viruses etc. It can also be negative several years after a T1 diagnosis (see NICE T1 Guidelines). My GAD was negative, I had insulin at the bottom of the 'normal' range from the c-peptide test and have always been stick thin. My insulin has continued to go down so my c-peptide would probably now be below the normal range.Thanks! I think I'll wait till I've had one or two goes with a Libre. That may possibly throw up some readings to back up my request. She has already refused me a c-peptide test.
I support your right to continue as a member of this forum, and I find this pedantic insistance on correct labelling to be unwarranted. I like your self assessment presented here in your post. and hope you do not withdraw.Jenny Ruhl says that skinny people with raised bg may be either T2s who produce very little insulin or LADA, who of course also produce very little insulin and may progress to producing none. It seems to me that I may fit into either of these categories. I am therefore interested in research and posts on some aspects of T1 as well as T2. I follow Dr B's idea that what really matters is the level of bg, and we should ideally use whatever means we can to attain and maintain those "normal" bg levels.
As I recounted on the Forum, I recently asked my GP for a C-peptide test. She refused, and the private labs offering this test that Forum members told me about turned out to be too expensive for me to contemplate. I might at some point ask for a GAD test, as that is much cheaper, so there may be fewer rules stopping GPs from prescribing it.
I don't "claim" to be anything. I would actually prefer to be pre-pre-T2 rather than pre-LADA, as my prospects would be better for continuing the small amount of insulin production I seem to have left. I actually find the word "claim" a bit odd here, as if I were claiming to be a long lost Princess and stood to gain an inheritance.
Don't go.
I think mine might be wrong too. I started off T2 but after taking statins and eating masses of veg I think I'm now half horse half sheep. If I get mange I'll report back.