Wrong diagnosis

I listened to Emily Burns this morning on the today program; very good and from DUK! At last the diabetes 'experts' have discovered what this forum has known for years that T1 can and does occur at any age and GPs need to get better at getting the diagnosis right. I was one of the victims. When I resigned from DUK 2 years ago I gave two reasons i.e. crazy diet advice (stuff yourself with starchy carbs) and the lack of understanding of T1 in later life (they had an either childhood T1 or otherwise T2 approach with nothing in between)

On the other hand, we have a newcomer to the forum today whose doctor has given a diagnosis of "treated as Type 1" on the basis that he is a bit too young for Type 2 and had ketones. He says he is obese with a lot of belly fat and has been put on insulin. Now, he may well be Type 1 and I'm not arguing which he is, but "treated as Type 1" on those grounds only doesn't sound very good to me.

Undiagnosed victim too.

Doctors just like any one can look the blatantly obvious in the face and not see it, I had one refuse to make a diagnosis of diabetes at all let alone T1 or T2 even when my HbA1c was at 64.

I believe Type 1 is generally diagnosed by blood tests however there is one blood test not generally used because of of its expense. In my case I was diagnosed as type 1 but realised I must be type 2 when I started a diet and found my need for insulin got less and less. This is typical in type 2