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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2478500" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi there, I was exactly like you with regards to the so called lifestyle and was diagnosed as pre diabetic when I was 52 after a standard 'well woman' check. I recall them saying then that I didn't fit the 'profile' of a type 2 which unfortunately is as you state above and so they left it at that. Very gently I would say be careful of falling into the same trap yourself when it comes to stereotypes. 3 years later I became hospitalised with DKA and lo & behold, I had various tests done and was actually a slow onset type 1. They now think that the pre diabetic diagnosis was the start of that onset (of course it could have started years before for all I know). The problem with the NHS as I see it is that they do love to shove everybody sharing symptoms into the same category from the off, and even if they are correct much of the time there are still plenty of people of all types who do not fit the textbook profile, if I had actually been overweight and sedentary when being rushed into hospital I am sure they would still have been blathering on about 'type 2' and yet I was a type 1, no further tests would have been done and I would be in a very different position to now. I don't know if you've had all the tests available or not, but from the sound of your diet you clearly are low carb. What are your numbers like?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2478500, member: 451727"] Hi there, I was exactly like you with regards to the so called lifestyle and was diagnosed as pre diabetic when I was 52 after a standard 'well woman' check. I recall them saying then that I didn't fit the 'profile' of a type 2 which unfortunately is as you state above and so they left it at that. Very gently I would say be careful of falling into the same trap yourself when it comes to stereotypes. 3 years later I became hospitalised with DKA and lo & behold, I had various tests done and was actually a slow onset type 1. They now think that the pre diabetic diagnosis was the start of that onset (of course it could have started years before for all I know). The problem with the NHS as I see it is that they do love to shove everybody sharing symptoms into the same category from the off, and even if they are correct much of the time there are still plenty of people of all types who do not fit the textbook profile, if I had actually been overweight and sedentary when being rushed into hospital I am sure they would still have been blathering on about 'type 2' and yet I was a type 1, no further tests would have been done and I would be in a very different position to now. I don't know if you've had all the tests available or not, but from the sound of your diet you clearly are low carb. What are your numbers like? [/QUOTE]
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