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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 1918036" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi Emma. It seems to be different everywhere so I can only speak for my area (Solihull). I came out of the hospital on insulin as they leant towards me being a type 1 on presentation. For the first 3 months or so I adjusted my insulin up and down on their advice as I had several hypo's. On my first Specialist appointment following that, they tested my C Peptide levels and antibodies. About a month after that, those tests came back. The C peptide was the low end of normal, so they called that inconclusive. One of my antibody tests came back with what they called a 'low positive'. They then looked at everything together and declared type 1. It all took about a year and of course 15 months into it now, I still am under the consultant apparently in the 'honeymoon' period.</p><p>My point being is that these things seem so slow and sometimes you don't get a conclusive result from any one thing. Whilst all this is going on, it is all about test, test, test. They did give me a glucose monitor right away (did you get one?), that was the only way to find out what my levels were doing, the 'go to the Doctor's if you feel unwell' is not helpful advice at this stage, I felt GREAT all the way though this whether I was low or high and I felt well all the way through my hospital stay when my levels were in the high 20s and my ketones were over 4 but according to the hospital, could have gone into a coma at any minute!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 1918036, member: 451727"] Hi Emma. It seems to be different everywhere so I can only speak for my area (Solihull). I came out of the hospital on insulin as they leant towards me being a type 1 on presentation. For the first 3 months or so I adjusted my insulin up and down on their advice as I had several hypo's. On my first Specialist appointment following that, they tested my C Peptide levels and antibodies. About a month after that, those tests came back. The C peptide was the low end of normal, so they called that inconclusive. One of my antibody tests came back with what they called a 'low positive'. They then looked at everything together and declared type 1. It all took about a year and of course 15 months into it now, I still am under the consultant apparently in the 'honeymoon' period. My point being is that these things seem so slow and sometimes you don't get a conclusive result from any one thing. Whilst all this is going on, it is all about test, test, test. They did give me a glucose monitor right away (did you get one?), that was the only way to find out what my levels were doing, the 'go to the Doctor's if you feel unwell' is not helpful advice at this stage, I felt GREAT all the way though this whether I was low or high and I felt well all the way through my hospital stay when my levels were in the high 20s and my ketones were over 4 but according to the hospital, could have gone into a coma at any minute! [/QUOTE]
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