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Type 1 AND Type 2 diabetes?

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gavin86

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
So I was just wondering... given the way types 1 & 2 work:

Is it possible to have both?
Or have one, then later develop the other as well?
Antibodies gave me a definitive t1 diagnosis - but when I was initially diagnosed as t2, it was only because t1 didn't seem to fit my presentation.
 
Yes it is possible to have double diabetes.

You, however, were probably just classed as t2 because of age before they realised you were t1.
 
In a world, a long, long time ago there lived two dinosaurs. Apparently unrelated to T Rex, they were T1 and T2. The world was an easier, less complicated one. Then the beast that is Diabetes said I will cast confusion among the people and the medics, and lo, he created T1.5, T3, and T4.
The medics 'understood' T1 - it came on early in life, and people went straight on to insulin.
Which made it easy to 'diagnose' T2. It wasn't T1, because it didn't look like it, so it must be T2 !

And it came to pass that people came before the medics with T1.5 and so forth, but the medics were slow in their learning, and had hardened their hearts, and they cast their diagnoses upon T2.

The moral of my story ? If a wolf dresses up as a sheep, it may fool you. At first.
It's just annoying waiting for medical knowledge and understanding to catch up.
Until then many will be misdiagnosed as T2.
Geoff
 
Type 1 diabetes + insulin resistance is colloquially called "double diabetes" because insulin resistance is a key type 2 characteristic, but it's not actually, medically double diabetes because another key characteristic of type 2 is hyperinsulimia and, obviously, you can't produce too much insulin as a type 1 diabetic.

Hypothetically, it may be possible to be type 2 and then have a totally unrelated autoimmune attack to develop type 1 but I would imagine that's so rare as to be basically unheard of. It's much more likely you were just misdiagnosed as type 2 when you were always type 1.

Do you actually have any insulin resistance @gavin86 ? What's your total daily dose?
 
So true and I'm one of those 'victims' and still listed as T2 despite being stick thin all along. The fault lies with the training of GPs and nurses and DUK don't understand Late onset T1 either. So we will just have to keep our little secret and act accordingly. As my GP who had just come off the Warwick diabetes training course said when I challenged her 'You're not T1 therefore you are T2' and when I asked to go onto insulin as all my max dose tablets were failing was told 'Insulin is a last resort' and refused. Ignorance is bliss...
 
Is it not possible for the pancreas to misfire off and on?
Like thyroid disease. It can work sometimes more than other times?
 
Thanks, I'd forgotten about the hyperisulemia part.

I wasn't thinking I had both, just wondering about a lot of things since being diagnosed
 
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