I was first put on gliclazide, because my Liver Function tests were all out of kilter, so Metformin was contraindicated. It didn’t really help, and I felt very alone and struggling. My GP told me to go out and buy a meter, and she would prescribe strips, and I was to test myself twice a week! (though I did later have a discussion with her about what more frequent testing was showing me, and she agreed. The testing and driving rules weren’t in place then)
Fortunately, she recognised that I wasn’t a typical Type 2 and referred me to the hospital. And I also bought the Gretchen Becker book and read it from cover to cover, reduced my carbs, and got my next HbA1c down to ....12%! Then I had my hopsital appointment 3 months later, where they added Metformin because me LFTs had calmed down, and went on with the Type 2 diagnosis, until the appointment three months after that, when they thought to do a GAD test, and put me on background insulin to be going on with.
Finally, a year after diagnosis, I got Novorapid added to the mix, told to stop the Glic and Met, and got reclassified Type 1. (Though my GP was still convinced I must be Type 2, because older people don’t develop Type 1.)
I did spend quite a lot of time blaming myself, having been told it was Type 2, and thinking that I must have brought it on myself. This forum didn’t exist then, and there wasn’t an awful lot of online stuff, I found an American site where everyone seemed to have HbA1cs in the low 5s, and that put me off seeking any more forums til I stumbled on this about 5 years after diagnosis.
