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<blockquote data-quote="mike gibson" data-source="post: 2054976" data-attributes="member: 443123"><p>I was diagnosed as type 2 18 months ago and was baffled as I never fit the typical type 2 profile, I was a skinny 9st 8lbs, although I was just under 11stone and it was my sudden weight loss and fatigue that first got me to ring the doctors, I had a physically active lifestyle as well as a healthy diet. To be told I was type 2 was a bolt out of the blue. So then stuck on metformin twice daily told to eat healthier, I already did, and come back in 3 months. So after 3 months my hb1ac only came down to 83 from 95 so metformin upped to 2 twice a day. Another 3 months passed and by down to 80 so then onto gliclazide once a day...by this time I really tried with the diet, so cut out bread, biscuits etc and went moderately low carb...to my surprise I got my blood levels down to 57 and felt I was getting to grips with the condition, however, since I was already a low weight with eating lowish carbs my weight went as low as 9st 3 and at 5ft 10 my bmi went too low and I was so tired....some days I’d get in from work and I managed to get my readings in the 6-7 mmol range then all of a sudden the readings crept up again to double figures, I couldn’t cut back anymore on food as I’d waste away and I was getting more lethargic. I fought and fought my diabetic nurse to refer me to a specialist as I’d always suspected I wasn’t type 2 but maybe Lada...upon meeting him he took one look at me and said to do a blood test and sure enough I have autoimmune diabetes aka Lada....I’m actually relived to finally get the proper diagnosis I’m not on insulin yet but I know it’s coming, he has stuck me on 80mg of gliclazide twice a day rising to 120mg by next month and if my bg remains in double figures it will be insulin, at the moment my bg is averaging 14 - 20 mmol with fasting ones as high as 21so I think it’s inevitable I’ll be on insulin soon enough. It’s a weight lifted off my shoulders and I too am happy to be Lada as it explains so much about my weight loss and not being able to get my bg readings under control....I have some reservations about insulin but I’m hoping that it will finally give me the control I need and be finally free of these dreaded tablets...hope all goes well for you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mike gibson, post: 2054976, member: 443123"] I was diagnosed as type 2 18 months ago and was baffled as I never fit the typical type 2 profile, I was a skinny 9st 8lbs, although I was just under 11stone and it was my sudden weight loss and fatigue that first got me to ring the doctors, I had a physically active lifestyle as well as a healthy diet. To be told I was type 2 was a bolt out of the blue. So then stuck on metformin twice daily told to eat healthier, I already did, and come back in 3 months. So after 3 months my hb1ac only came down to 83 from 95 so metformin upped to 2 twice a day. Another 3 months passed and by down to 80 so then onto gliclazide once a day...by this time I really tried with the diet, so cut out bread, biscuits etc and went moderately low carb...to my surprise I got my blood levels down to 57 and felt I was getting to grips with the condition, however, since I was already a low weight with eating lowish carbs my weight went as low as 9st 3 and at 5ft 10 my bmi went too low and I was so tired....some days I’d get in from work and I managed to get my readings in the 6-7 mmol range then all of a sudden the readings crept up again to double figures, I couldn’t cut back anymore on food as I’d waste away and I was getting more lethargic. I fought and fought my diabetic nurse to refer me to a specialist as I’d always suspected I wasn’t type 2 but maybe Lada...upon meeting him he took one look at me and said to do a blood test and sure enough I have autoimmune diabetes aka Lada....I’m actually relived to finally get the proper diagnosis I’m not on insulin yet but I know it’s coming, he has stuck me on 80mg of gliclazide twice a day rising to 120mg by next month and if my bg remains in double figures it will be insulin, at the moment my bg is averaging 14 - 20 mmol with fasting ones as high as 21so I think it’s inevitable I’ll be on insulin soon enough. It’s a weight lifted off my shoulders and I too am happy to be Lada as it explains so much about my weight loss and not being able to get my bg readings under control....I have some reservations about insulin but I’m hoping that it will finally give me the control I need and be finally free of these dreaded tablets...hope all goes well for you [/QUOTE]
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