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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michele01" data-source="post: 1023610" data-attributes="member: 188227">I'm very interested to understand how I could possibly have gone from pre-diabetic to type 2 and then type 1 in less than a year!  So, could I ask some advice please in advance of seeing my consultant?- In December 2014 I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic (with blood tests - not sure which but presume one was fasting).- In March 2015 I was put on Metformin as my levels had moved "slightly" and the consultant thought it wise to start low level treatment.- In June 2015 my levels were ok but I wasn't tolerating Metformin so was put on Forxiga.- In July 2015 I was admitted to hospital with DKA (brought on by taking the Forxiga).- On leaving hospital I was prescribed insulin injections because everybody was worried about giving me more tablets and what could happen.- Since then, I've struggled to get my levels down (at one point they were all in the 20s and as high as 30).- In November 2015 I had a GAD (?) and CPEP test that showed I am now a Type 1.I had been left to my own devices by my original consultant and my GP (on Christmas Eve) transferred my care to the consultant I was under at the hospital that treated the DKA (and the one that did the test for Type 1 in November so I'm hopeful that my care will be much more thorough going forward BUT what I want to know is how I've gone from pre-diabetic to type 1 in a year!  Could it be, as I suspect, that the Forxiga has damaged my pancreas with the DKA to the extent that it's destroyed any natural ability I had to produce insulin?  Has the move from Type 2 to Type 1 happened to anybody else so quickly who hasn't had these tablets?  I'd love your thoughts on this please.</blockquote>

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