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<blockquote data-quote="Flakey Bake" data-source="post: 1262428" data-attributes="member: 71327"><p>I was overweight when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 36. However I was rapidly loosing weight. I always maintained that I was type 1 as lipids were fine and statins were not needed. I initially responded to the usual type 2 treatments and a huge effort on the diet front, which made my doctor think he was right. Then control started to slip and my BG averaged about 17-24 and for more than a year I was told to try harder by my doctors. I really tried and was on 3 drug treatments and a very low carb diet. I was at my wits end. I had lost nearly 5 stone and was so ill. I told them I was going to die if they didn't give me insulin and I believed that. They relucantly referred me to the hospital (it took a further 3 months to be seen because of lost referral notes). At the diabetes clinic they tested my GAD antibodies - all my type 1 markers were through the roof. All hell broke loose, paniced phones call 'can you come into the clinci now for insulin as you are type 1'. I said yeah I know and I have been for more than 2 years! Everyone should be checked for GAD antibodies and again a year after diagnosis as type 2 incase they slipped through with a false negative in the early stages of diabetes. Serology testing is not that expensive and how many people would benefit from correct diagnosis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flakey Bake, post: 1262428, member: 71327"] I was overweight when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 36. However I was rapidly loosing weight. I always maintained that I was type 1 as lipids were fine and statins were not needed. I initially responded to the usual type 2 treatments and a huge effort on the diet front, which made my doctor think he was right. Then control started to slip and my BG averaged about 17-24 and for more than a year I was told to try harder by my doctors. I really tried and was on 3 drug treatments and a very low carb diet. I was at my wits end. I had lost nearly 5 stone and was so ill. I told them I was going to die if they didn't give me insulin and I believed that. They relucantly referred me to the hospital (it took a further 3 months to be seen because of lost referral notes). At the diabetes clinic they tested my GAD antibodies - all my type 1 markers were through the roof. All hell broke loose, paniced phones call 'can you come into the clinci now for insulin as you are type 1'. I said yeah I know and I have been for more than 2 years! Everyone should be checked for GAD antibodies and again a year after diagnosis as type 2 incase they slipped through with a false negative in the early stages of diabetes. Serology testing is not that expensive and how many people would benefit from correct diagnosis. [/QUOTE]
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