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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1584250" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Pretty much all type 2 diabetes is late onset, it's most commonly diagnosed over the age of 40. It's tested for in the old man test because that's when your risk is highest. There is not late onset type 2. In mentionimg late onset diabetes, I assume the doctor means late onset type 1.</p><p></p><p>If your GP thinks you are late onset type 1 and not type 2 are they investigating this with a cpeptide test (to see what you insulin production looks like) and a GAD test (to see if you have antibodies associated with autoimmune type 1 diabetes)? Those would be the tests to ask for to determine type of diabetes.</p><p></p><p>If it's type 1 then no medication isn't an option. It's insulin or die.</p><p></p><p>You don't have to be fat to be type 2 there are plenty of not particularly overweight, or in fact slim, type 2 diabetics.while the media portrays type 2 as a condition of obesity I am sure there will be many in here who will tell you that is more than a little simplistic: there are people who are thin outside, fat inside so they look thin but store a lot of fat around internal organs and this body composition can create insulin resistance and type 2; there are people with highly stressed lives and stress releases hormones counter regulatory to insulin; there are shift workers who never had a regular circadian rhythm and messing with the body clock messes with the hormones causing insulin resistance; there are people with PCOS (again messed up hormone balance) and; type 2 is pretty strongly genetic, so if you have any family history that will increase your risk without any lifestyle risk factors for type 2 (nb the lifestyle risk factors are considerably broader than your weigh, it's your whole lifestyle).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1584250, member: 32394"] Pretty much all type 2 diabetes is late onset, it's most commonly diagnosed over the age of 40. It's tested for in the old man test because that's when your risk is highest. There is not late onset type 2. In mentionimg late onset diabetes, I assume the doctor means late onset type 1. If your GP thinks you are late onset type 1 and not type 2 are they investigating this with a cpeptide test (to see what you insulin production looks like) and a GAD test (to see if you have antibodies associated with autoimmune type 1 diabetes)? Those would be the tests to ask for to determine type of diabetes. If it's type 1 then no medication isn't an option. It's insulin or die. You don't have to be fat to be type 2 there are plenty of not particularly overweight, or in fact slim, type 2 diabetics.while the media portrays type 2 as a condition of obesity I am sure there will be many in here who will tell you that is more than a little simplistic: there are people who are thin outside, fat inside so they look thin but store a lot of fat around internal organs and this body composition can create insulin resistance and type 2; there are people with highly stressed lives and stress releases hormones counter regulatory to insulin; there are shift workers who never had a regular circadian rhythm and messing with the body clock messes with the hormones causing insulin resistance; there are people with PCOS (again messed up hormone balance) and; type 2 is pretty strongly genetic, so if you have any family history that will increase your risk without any lifestyle risk factors for type 2 (nb the lifestyle risk factors are considerably broader than your weigh, it's your whole lifestyle). [/QUOTE]
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