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Should I push for a LADA diagnosis?
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<blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 545006" data-attributes="member: 12578"><p>I'm not in the UK, I was diagnosed as T1 from the start. The the consultant suggested that it would better be called 1.5 or LADA but the official diagnosis is T1. . I'd probably had the condition for about three years before and had 'self managed' so no drugs just a low GI diet. I started using insulin at diagnosis ,from what I read this is normal in France and some other countries. it was easy to stop the highs however very difficult to stop lows. I'm not unhappy that I started insulin then, it enabled me to have low HbA1cs and that is important. Nine years later it's actually quite a bit easier, I've got used to micromanaging but I don't have so many hypos to cope with. </p><p>I think that if I were in the UK, I would prefer a T1 diagnosis simply because courses like DAFNE, access to insulin pumps and even short term use of continuous monitoring don't seem to be available to T2s on insulin (wrong but that's the case)</p><p>I do know of one lady who was diagnosed for T2 for several years, was certain she had LADA/T1 and after being re- diagnosed was able to get a pump.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoenix, post: 545006, member: 12578"] I'm not in the UK, I was diagnosed as T1 from the start. The the consultant suggested that it would better be called 1.5 or LADA but the official diagnosis is T1. . I'd probably had the condition for about three years before and had 'self managed' so no drugs just a low GI diet. I started using insulin at diagnosis ,from what I read this is normal in France and some other countries. it was easy to stop the highs however very difficult to stop lows. I'm not unhappy that I started insulin then, it enabled me to have low HbA1cs and that is important. Nine years later it's actually quite a bit easier, I've got used to micromanaging but I don't have so many hypos to cope with. I think that if I were in the UK, I would prefer a T1 diagnosis simply because courses like DAFNE, access to insulin pumps and even short term use of continuous monitoring don't seem to be available to T2s on insulin (wrong but that's the case) I do know of one lady who was diagnosed for T2 for several years, was certain she had LADA/T1 and after being re- diagnosed was able to get a pump. [/QUOTE]
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