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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2161009" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>I don't mind you asking at all. Well, the consensus seems to be that pre diabetes can't progress to type 1, I think that I might have been type 1 WHEN I was diagnosed as 'pre diabetic' and then went in to some sort of honeymoon period akin to LADA, (a slow developing form of type 1 if you like). When I went to the Drs with extreme symptoms (3 years later), I ended up in hospital with very high ketones and an extremely high glucose level. Even then one Consultant reckoned type 1 because I was slim and didn't fit the so called 'profile' for type 2 other than age and because of my presentation, and one said type 2 because of age (54 then). They put me on insulin immediately and my levels went down instantly. It was quite amusing in the hospital actually because I was on an insulin drip which kept dropping me to the 2's, the Nurse would go into a panic, get me some toast, then they would go up into the teens, hence more insulin and back into the 2s!!</p><p></p><p> Over the next 3 months they did a few extra tests, C Peptide (to see how much insulin I was producing naturally) and antibody tests. My C Peptide came back as 'low end of normal' and I was positive for GAD antibodies. I do recall someone saying that once you start exogenous insulin your body won't need to produce so much of its own so this could impact the C Peptide test but I have asked about that comment since and not really had a definitive reply. </p><p></p><p>Adding up all of that, the diagnosis was type 1. I thank God that I was slim because had I been overweight I am convinced they would have gone for type 2 with NO extra tests and who knows how ill I would have become trying to do it by diet or metformin etc. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2161009, member: 451727"] I don't mind you asking at all. Well, the consensus seems to be that pre diabetes can't progress to type 1, I think that I might have been type 1 WHEN I was diagnosed as 'pre diabetic' and then went in to some sort of honeymoon period akin to LADA, (a slow developing form of type 1 if you like). When I went to the Drs with extreme symptoms (3 years later), I ended up in hospital with very high ketones and an extremely high glucose level. Even then one Consultant reckoned type 1 because I was slim and didn't fit the so called 'profile' for type 2 other than age and because of my presentation, and one said type 2 because of age (54 then). They put me on insulin immediately and my levels went down instantly. It was quite amusing in the hospital actually because I was on an insulin drip which kept dropping me to the 2's, the Nurse would go into a panic, get me some toast, then they would go up into the teens, hence more insulin and back into the 2s!! Over the next 3 months they did a few extra tests, C Peptide (to see how much insulin I was producing naturally) and antibody tests. My C Peptide came back as 'low end of normal' and I was positive for GAD antibodies. I do recall someone saying that once you start exogenous insulin your body won't need to produce so much of its own so this could impact the C Peptide test but I have asked about that comment since and not really had a definitive reply. Adding up all of that, the diagnosis was type 1. I thank God that I was slim because had I been overweight I am convinced they would have gone for type 2 with NO extra tests and who knows how ill I would have become trying to do it by diet or metformin etc. x [/QUOTE]
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