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<blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2687854" data-attributes="member: 585131"><p>Thanks for the comment - I'm sure you are correct in this - most measurements we take are much more fluid than they seem, depending on how often you take the measurements. </p><p>In my case, I'm pretty happy about this though; the key question for me was 'could this be late onset Type 1 given a history of recent weight loss, increasing sense of thirst and urinating'. </p><p>For me, I was increasingly seeing a trend of low blood sugar during the night - bouncing off the lower end of the scale. This was when I was still taking insulin, and I have a good friend who is long term Type 1 - he was often having to get up in the night with a hypo alarm. That wasn't happening to me, and I was confused how I seemed to be showing increasingly better 'control' of my insulin levels, when I wasn't producing any. The test I then did was to look for naturally produced insulin in response to a carb-heavy meal. So, the result of that test showed 'plenty' of insulin being produced. That, in conjunction with the antibody test (and my better understanding of beta cell failure) all started to suggest type 2 or NAFLD (or a combination, given the time I was being given unnecessary insulin).</p><p></p><p>The key for me then was 'can I use the CGM to ensure I'm not doing anything unsafe, and try to work with an extreme change to diet' - because if I really was still a type 1 - I think the diet I went on would have been quite a challenge...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris24Main, post: 2687854, member: 585131"] Thanks for the comment - I'm sure you are correct in this - most measurements we take are much more fluid than they seem, depending on how often you take the measurements. In my case, I'm pretty happy about this though; the key question for me was 'could this be late onset Type 1 given a history of recent weight loss, increasing sense of thirst and urinating'. For me, I was increasingly seeing a trend of low blood sugar during the night - bouncing off the lower end of the scale. This was when I was still taking insulin, and I have a good friend who is long term Type 1 - he was often having to get up in the night with a hypo alarm. That wasn't happening to me, and I was confused how I seemed to be showing increasingly better 'control' of my insulin levels, when I wasn't producing any. The test I then did was to look for naturally produced insulin in response to a carb-heavy meal. So, the result of that test showed 'plenty' of insulin being produced. That, in conjunction with the antibody test (and my better understanding of beta cell failure) all started to suggest type 2 or NAFLD (or a combination, given the time I was being given unnecessary insulin). The key for me then was 'can I use the CGM to ensure I'm not doing anything unsafe, and try to work with an extreme change to diet' - because if I really was still a type 1 - I think the diet I went on would have been quite a challenge... [/QUOTE]
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