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<blockquote data-quote="Japes" data-source="post: 2141178" data-attributes="member: 277410"><p>Thanks for the tag, [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] and welcome to the forum [USER=502697]@Stu78[/USER]</p><p></p><p>I was originally misdiagnosed T2. More than likely because of age and weight rather than properly investigating the initial Hba1c of 144, followed by a 2nd two days later as the labs didn't believe that of 140, which came down in 3 months to 57. I maintained similar levels for the next two years with Metformin, LCHF diet, and a lot of walking. Then, levels drifted up, I got stricter with diet, started walking more, got accused of not doing enough (!) and finally had the luck to land with a GP who had heard of LADA, (previous GPs were just fine with upping meds and blaming me for not trying hard enough with diet or exercise - I'd halved my body weight without trying at that point and walking 8 - 10 miles most days) believed me when I was reporting back what I was doing, and my self-funded BG meters results. </p><p></p><p>I'd've probably benefited from some kind of insulin from day 1, but as the oral meds, diet and exercise worked until it didn't, I was happy enough with that approach, until the exhaustion of trying to beat numbers down got too much. Running my body on numbers mostly in high teens and 20s for four months is not something I ever want to do again after the twice it's happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Japes, post: 2141178, member: 277410"] Thanks for the tag, [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] and welcome to the forum [USER=502697]@Stu78[/USER] I was originally misdiagnosed T2. More than likely because of age and weight rather than properly investigating the initial Hba1c of 144, followed by a 2nd two days later as the labs didn't believe that of 140, which came down in 3 months to 57. I maintained similar levels for the next two years with Metformin, LCHF diet, and a lot of walking. Then, levels drifted up, I got stricter with diet, started walking more, got accused of not doing enough (!) and finally had the luck to land with a GP who had heard of LADA, (previous GPs were just fine with upping meds and blaming me for not trying hard enough with diet or exercise - I'd halved my body weight without trying at that point and walking 8 - 10 miles most days) believed me when I was reporting back what I was doing, and my self-funded BG meters results. I'd've probably benefited from some kind of insulin from day 1, but as the oral meds, diet and exercise worked until it didn't, I was happy enough with that approach, until the exhaustion of trying to beat numbers down got too much. Running my body on numbers mostly in high teens and 20s for four months is not something I ever want to do again after the twice it's happened. [/QUOTE]
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