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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SimonCrox" data-source="post: 1981024" data-attributes="member: 388174">Glad that you are feeling better on insulin.On this forum, one is not allowed to give diagnoses (but I would totally agree with your conclusions from your symptoms, and DKA) and I would rarely criticise another healthcare professional cos we don't always know the full story.T1DM and age of onset - this is more common in young people eg teenagers, but once one gets to 30, one still gets T1DM arising and this same rate holds into 80's - so you are young, but even if you were 80, you could still get T1DM.There is a subtype of T2DM that presents with DKA (ketosis prone T2DM), but these folk are generally Afro-caribbean (although does occur in other ethnic groups), and the person looks like a Type 2 diabetic person ie family history of diabetes, overweight (although overweight folk can still get T1DM), and older than you. I think that this variety is unlikely in you.  It doesn't hurt to test, and it will totally clarify the situation.But the classical symptoms, marked weight loss and DKA would make most people agree with your and the other healthcare professionals' diagnosisBest wishes</blockquote>

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