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<blockquote data-quote="desidiabulum" data-source="post: 269812" data-attributes="member: 39515"><p>'Diabetes is not a single disease but a syndrome with at least fifty possible causes' (R. Tattersall, Diabetes. The biography).</p><p></p><p>Mistee I really sympathize, but at least there are a growing number of people who don't quite fit the categories.</p><p>I went to a Diabetes Awareness Day where we all heard a big diabetes professor say that in the future we will be seen as having lived in a very primitive age when people assumed you were either T1 or T2 -- he forecast we will soon be talking about HUNDREDS of types of diabetes. Immediately afterwards, of course, we were then told to divide up into separate groups, either T1 or T2. There were a gratifying number of us who didn't fit -- not just LADA, 1.5 etc. I think I'm officially 'God knows'. It's two years after initial diagnosis and the clinic still can't make up its mind. I have to put 'MODY?' on forms, but I want to put another ten ???s after it because the tests are still inconclusive</p><p>Lucy is right to say that the key thing is to follow the nearest treatment threads that work. Insulin or not insulin is the main distinction, I suppose.</p><p>In a limited way, I suppose everyone on this forum finds that they don't fit in quite 100% -- that our bodies respond in different ways to different types of treatment/diet etc. We only suffer from a common syndrome -- and ultimately it's quite nice that we find enough common ground in treatment strategies to be able to talk to each other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="desidiabulum, post: 269812, member: 39515"] 'Diabetes is not a single disease but a syndrome with at least fifty possible causes' (R. Tattersall, Diabetes. The biography). Mistee I really sympathize, but at least there are a growing number of people who don't quite fit the categories. I went to a Diabetes Awareness Day where we all heard a big diabetes professor say that in the future we will be seen as having lived in a very primitive age when people assumed you were either T1 or T2 -- he forecast we will soon be talking about HUNDREDS of types of diabetes. Immediately afterwards, of course, we were then told to divide up into separate groups, either T1 or T2. There were a gratifying number of us who didn't fit -- not just LADA, 1.5 etc. I think I'm officially 'God knows'. It's two years after initial diagnosis and the clinic still can't make up its mind. I have to put 'MODY?' on forms, but I want to put another ten ???s after it because the tests are still inconclusive Lucy is right to say that the key thing is to follow the nearest treatment threads that work. Insulin or not insulin is the main distinction, I suppose. In a limited way, I suppose everyone on this forum finds that they don't fit in quite 100% -- that our bodies respond in different ways to different types of treatment/diet etc. We only suffer from a common syndrome -- and ultimately it's quite nice that we find enough common ground in treatment strategies to be able to talk to each other. [/QUOTE]
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