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Should I push for a LADA diagnosis?
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<blockquote data-quote="Daibell" data-source="post: 545018" data-attributes="member: 21149"><p>This is an area where the NHS is most clueless; they just don't understand that there is a spectrum of states between being born a T1 and having decreasing insulin production due to a slow decline in pancreatic function. If you have a positive GAD then you are a LADA and should be started on insulin as and when tablets are no longer working assuming you are having a low-carb diet to help slow the onset. Your nutritionist doesn't appear to be very clued-up as dietary advice is similar for T1, LADA and T2 i.e. keep the carbs down. What your diagnosis actually is ins't vital but what is important is to go on to insulin when needed. I'm still labelled as a T2 as my GP guessed that by default. I had my own GAD and c-peptide tests done privately and have a negative GAD but very low insulin. I've never been overweight in my life so was never insulin resistant. I went onto insulin a year too late as my GP treated me as a T2 until my HBa1C shot up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daibell, post: 545018, member: 21149"] This is an area where the NHS is most clueless; they just don't understand that there is a spectrum of states between being born a T1 and having decreasing insulin production due to a slow decline in pancreatic function. If you have a positive GAD then you are a LADA and should be started on insulin as and when tablets are no longer working assuming you are having a low-carb diet to help slow the onset. Your nutritionist doesn't appear to be very clued-up as dietary advice is similar for T1, LADA and T2 i.e. keep the carbs down. What your diagnosis actually is ins't vital but what is important is to go on to insulin when needed. I'm still labelled as a T2 as my GP guessed that by default. I had my own GAD and c-peptide tests done privately and have a negative GAD but very low insulin. I've never been overweight in my life so was never insulin resistant. I went onto insulin a year too late as my GP treated me as a T2 until my HBa1C shot up. [/QUOTE]
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