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Hi,
I have been diabetic since summer 1997.

Allegedly type 2, I was very poorly with a viral infection that felt like flu and was diabetic after it, I was not overweight, I did and still do, eat healthy foods, I keep moderately fit (worked as a lecturer in Outdoor Education), I started on insulin very soon after diagnosis. Retired 22 years ago.

My BG is erratic and for 25 years my diabetes team and I have struggled to control it.

My specialist started me on Freestyle Libre for a short trial (6 weeks), to see what is happening?

It has revealed some interesting data, we're still working on it. I'm hoping to get an extension on the Libre trial.

Doug
 
Hello, Doug, and welcome to the forum. There are quite a few of us on here who were diagnosed as Type 2, then it became apparent that we were actually Type 1, and I'd bet you are another one of us! Even 12 years ago, when I was diagnosed, my G.P. didn’t realise you could be diagnosed with Type 1 at the age of 51, as I then was, and even the hospital were a bit slow off the mark. However, I did get the correct diagnosis in the end.
It sounds like your specialist is on the ball, though, and is in effect treating you as a Type 1. I have been self funding the Libre on and off for a couple of years, and the data I have got from it has been so useful.
 
Hi Robin, Thank you for the welcome.
After 25 years with diabetes there is still so much to learn.

Doug
 
Hi Doug - I'm only 5 months younger than you, been diabetic for very nearly half a century - and still learn summat new every day, one way or the other. Plus of course - I still have an inbuilt thirst for knowledge generally.

In other words - I'm just a normal nosey old mare! (which started when I was a foal and was nurtured whilst I was but a filly!)
 
I also have an insatiable thirst for knowledge and I've been like that a very, very long time.

New long lasting insulin tonight. "Toujeo"

Doug
 
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