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What is the likleyhood of me being type 2 not type 1?

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Sammi87

Sammi87

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Personal opinions. Im currently being treated as type 1, started on insulin treatment straight away as my bm range from 15 - 32. I have been on insulin for 2 weeks now gone from 10 to 16 units bm remains high. Have had ketone issues, fatigue, flu like symptoms, 1.5 stone weightloss in 3 weeks, increased thirst and urination and blurry vision etc. Im awaiting my c -peptide?? results.
 
The rapid weight loss and the ketones suggest type 1, Sammi, but I don't think anyone can tell for sure until you get the c-peptide (and/or GAD antibodies) test results back. The increased thirst and urination, blurry vision, and feeling bleah are all just symptoms of high blood sugar, so could be either. I'd guess type 1 but I could easily be wrong!
 
Sounds like type 1 to me aswell, but I am no expert.

good luck
 
Sounds like type 1 (but could be wrong) as I had all those symptoms before being diagnosed and my BG was 19 at the time so not as high as 32. Thirsty all the time, increased urination, really tired, lost weight and my eyes were really blurry - I can still 10 years later feel if my BG is above 16 as my eyes get kind of tingly and slight blur.
 
Only guess but I would think type 1 due to the rapid weight loss, but only doc can tell.
 
Sammi - I realise that you asked for personal opinions, but honestly it's better to get a clinical opinion, based on blood test results than opinions from s forum.
 
Copepod said:
Sammi - I realise that you asked for personal opinions, but honestly it's better to get a clinical opinion, based on blood test results than opinions from s forum.
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Yes im still waiting on my results. Its curiosity though. Waiting 4-6 weeks on blood results your going to question things arent you. Im aware this is a forum and i wont be taking anyones opinions as gospel. But you still would like to know what others think. May start a pool and take some bets lol! Gotta try and think of the positive side of things eh 🙂
 
Anna1 said:
Sounds like type 1 (but could be wrong) as I had all those symptoms before being diagnosed and my BG was 19 at the time so not as high as 32. Thirsty all the time, increased urination, really tired, lost weight and my eyes were really blurry - I can still 10 years later feel if my BG is above 16 as my eyes get kind of tingly and slight blur.
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If im not being to personal how old are you? Or how old were you when you were diagnosed? Im 29, 30 next week.
 
Hi Sammi. A lot of people on here who have T1 were diagnosed well into adulthood ie 40s + so it's not unusual.
Have you got much longer to wait for the results.
 
Another 2-4 weeks i think. See ive had a few low comments from people regarding my diagnosis been getting th whole youve done this to yourself, should look after yourself better, perhaps if you would have lost weight etc thats why im curious? Is this my own doing or one of those things? Dunno think im just having a down day about it all really.
 
Sammi87 said:
Another 2-4 weeks i think. See ive had a few low comments from people regarding my diagnosis been getting th whole youve done this to yourself, should look after yourself better, perhaps if you would have lost weight etc thats why im curious? Is this my own doing or one of those things? Dunno think im just having a down day about it all really.
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Dont u just wish you could slap them round the mush with a wet fish. The trouble is the media expounds on T2 being solely caused by lifestyle (some professionals do too) when it's known their is a genetic link.
And I'm sorry to say whatever type you eventually turn out to have, you will still get some people saying it, you won't get it on here though.

T2 is actually quite complicated, they are learning much more about its causes.
 
Ljc said:
Dont u just wish you could slap them round the mush with a wet fish. The trouble is the media expounds on T2 being solely caused by lifestyle (some professionals do too) when it's known their is a genetic link.
And I'm sorry to say whatever type you eventually turn out to have, you will still get some people saying it, you won't get it on here though.
Some althetes have T1 or T2.
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I love that! Lol yes i would love to slap them with a wet fish preferably a few day old warm sun ripened one. Yes im so glad i found this forum ive received so much help and feel like i have someone to talk to if im worried. I dont know any other diabtics so im a bit lost really.
 
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Oops I edited my previous post, sorry.
 
I hope you get a proper diagnosis and the correct treatment very soon. Some people are rude and ignorant, try and ignore best you can.
 
I don't suppose any of us have led exemplary lives whether before or since our diagnosis - I certainly haven't.

It is true that if you become much more than just 'overweight' and become obese or worse and morbidly obese, then you do increase your chances of becoming T2. However - it isn't automatic for every single person that's overweight and doesn't exercise - unless the person has 'other' stuff going on, in their insides. And if it was just 'lifestyle factors' - every single one would be T2, wouldn't they?

What 'other things' ? Well - how about every female in your family before you either having T2 already or all having Gestational diabetes when they were preg? or PCOS? What if there's a faulty gene or two in the mix? What if - anything ......

Nobody flipping well knows is the truth.

And I was 22 when diagnosed, and nobody knew anyone else in the family who had ever had any sort of diabetes, no extra big babies or anything at all that might give the slightest hint of why I should get T1 or my elder sister, or my cousin, both becoming T2 in much later life. However it's a big fat question mark hanging over both my sister's kids and my cousin's kids (all in their 40s by now LOL) - will any of them get it, or will it skip a generation or two or three?
 
Yeah same as me then. No one else in my family has it. There was a question over it when i had my daughter as she was 9lb 7oz and my first. But obviously i was regularly tested and nothing come up. Pot luck i guess lol
 
There is quite a history in my family of Type 2.
 
I have the honour of being the first known T2 in my family, well someone had to , so it might as well be me 🙄 Mind you several have followed in my footsteps since, on both sides.
 
Maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother were both diabetic... so it seemed quite likely, although at the time of diagnosis my mother told me that it was not possible, as I was not old enough! That was in 2008.
 
Hi Sammi, sorry not replied earlier. I was 35 when diagnosed. A lot of general public people know very little about diabetes and just know it's linked to sugar which leads them to assume that it's your own fault. They also assume that you have to live on green salad for the rest of your life. Even people I am close to have not really learnt that much about it. Fingers x for your results
 
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