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<blockquote data-quote="KitInCA" data-source="post: 2101669" data-attributes="member: 511371"><p>Me. After a major surgery, I was given massive steroids via IV (from the point of resection to leaving the hospital); my BG levels were so high during the week of my hospital recovery (128-200) that the nurses assumed I was an "unreported diabetic" and wanted to give me insulin. I denied the condition and refused the insulin. I thought that was the end of it. Two weeks later, at a surgical follow-up, I was told that I was a diabetic. I laughed. How could that be? No diabetes in my family history, I was thin, I was athletic, I exhibited no symptoms of diabetes (other than the high BG reads during my hospital stay). I was given a blood glucose meter and test strips and told to keep a log- - which I did. My BG's were, more often than not, out of normal range. In the meantime, as the doctors were trying to type my diabetes: I was tested for GADA and found positive for the antibodies (49) but tested negative for all other diabetes-definitive autoantibody tests. At that point (and every moment since), I was considered LADA by, well, THE ENTIRE WORLD. I am no longer "Kit," but "Lotta." Haha.</p><p>As an aside, I was given oral steroids for three months after surgery. Now, I don't take them- - even despite recommendation to do so when I have a cold, etc.</p><p>Since my diagnosis and subsequent BG monitoring, I have accepted the possibility that I am Diabetes 1/LADA and have changed my lifestyle. I am KETO and have, since adopting the KETO diet, kept my BG reads in range (frustrating fluctuations within the normal range aside) and I have a low A1c. I suspected from the beginning that the massive steroids triggered an autoimmune response. I still am.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KitInCA, post: 2101669, member: 511371"] Me. After a major surgery, I was given massive steroids via IV (from the point of resection to leaving the hospital); my BG levels were so high during the week of my hospital recovery (128-200) that the nurses assumed I was an "unreported diabetic" and wanted to give me insulin. I denied the condition and refused the insulin. I thought that was the end of it. Two weeks later, at a surgical follow-up, I was told that I was a diabetic. I laughed. How could that be? No diabetes in my family history, I was thin, I was athletic, I exhibited no symptoms of diabetes (other than the high BG reads during my hospital stay). I was given a blood glucose meter and test strips and told to keep a log- - which I did. My BG's were, more often than not, out of normal range. In the meantime, as the doctors were trying to type my diabetes: I was tested for GADA and found positive for the antibodies (49) but tested negative for all other diabetes-definitive autoantibody tests. At that point (and every moment since), I was considered LADA by, well, THE ENTIRE WORLD. I am no longer "Kit," but "Lotta." Haha. As an aside, I was given oral steroids for three months after surgery. Now, I don't take them- - even despite recommendation to do so when I have a cold, etc. Since my diagnosis and subsequent BG monitoring, I have accepted the possibility that I am Diabetes 1/LADA and have changed my lifestyle. I am KETO and have, since adopting the KETO diet, kept my BG reads in range (frustrating fluctuations within the normal range aside) and I have a low A1c. I suspected from the beginning that the massive steroids triggered an autoimmune response. I still am. [/QUOTE]
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