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Theresa May (MP)

Hi I'm living proof Type 1 is not a "respecter" of age. I was diagnosed at age 55 years two years ago. No history of Type 1 or 2 in my family. A week before being taken to hospital in an ambulance with DKA I had been perfectly healthy apart from needing to go to the loo more often and drinking for England with an unquenchable thirst that was my first and only signs things were not right. The hospital recommended I start on 2 injections a day, but after 3 weeks I was switched to one injection of Lantus per day and Nova Rapid to cover meals, so at least 3 of those a day. also take 1 500 tablet of metformin SR per day with all the wonderful stomach side effects that comes with. This does give a fair amount of flexibility and does allow for correction doses, but I'd still rather not be a diabetic.
 
I was diagnosed 9 years ago at age 60 as a Type 2 by GP guesswork. I have never been overweight in my life and have recently had to go onto twice daily injections of insulin. I had rapidly lost weight shortly before diagnosis. So, I'm not actually a T2 but one of the many undiagnosed T1.5s. One day the medical profession and DUK will realise that quite a few of the T2s 'who progress to having insulin' are not insulin resistant T2 but late onset T1 which can and does occur quite late in life for a range of reasons and not just thru GAD antibodies. Better diagnosis and recording ought to help with research into the range of causes of T1 diabetes. The oft quoted media statements that T1 and T2 are very different illnesses understates the very wide range of causes of diabetes. Not all T1s suffer complete loss of insulin production but that doesn't make them insulin resistant T2.
 
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