Monogenic diabetes

Anyone else heard of this? The doca are puzzled as to how come I m doing well (last hba1c was in the non diabetic range)coming up to 20 years post diagnosis with T2 and treated throughout with a consistent & fairly low dose of sulfonureas which goes against the expected trajectory, that combined with the fact I was pretty young at diagnosis is something the consultant I saw this time round thought might indicate monogenic diabetes ( which he explained as meaning a single gene defect)

CarbsRok said:

Exeter diabetes centre does the testing for monogenic diabetes. Professor Hattersley is the man you need

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Cheers

phoenix said:

If you haven't already found this by googling
http://www.diabetesgenes.org/

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Thanks
All very interesting - not sure it makes any difference in terms of treatment if I am or not monogenic but it would certainly make more sense than a T2 diagnosis - I was repeatedly tested for diabetes from the age of 6or7 yrs old (only urine tests tho) then ultimately diag as T2 in my mid 30s with the statement that I must have been diabetic for at least 20 years prior to diagnosis ( ie since 15 or so)