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[TinaC]

Hi
My name is Tina, I was diagnosed Type 1 9 years ago, and I am now 56. I was diagnosed through going to the walk in centre, after visiting my GO twice in the previous 6 months, to be told, well, you’re borderline, but don’t worry! But that’s another story. My Diabetes is probably the result of a virus, but if caught earlier, I would have been Type 2, and may have been able to reverse it, but hey ho, no longer at that surgery!

Tina

 

[Lucyr]

Hi
My name is Tina, I was diagnosed Type 1 9 years ago, and I am now 56. I was diagnosed through going to the walk in centre, after visiting my GO twice in the previous 6 months, to be told, well, you’re borderline, but don’t worry! But that’s another story. My Diabetes is probably the result of a virus, but if caught earlier, I would have been Type 2, and may have been able to reverse it, but hey ho, no longer at that surgery!

Tina

Hi and welcome, sorry to hear of your diagnosis but this isn’t how diabetes works. Type 2 does not turn into type 1. Do you mean you’re a type 2 who now takes insulin or do your records say type 1?

 

[SB2015]

Welcome to the forum Tina. I am glad that you have found us.

As you are T1 this is completely different from T2 and you would not be able to reverse it. T1 is an autoimmune disease and some antibodies have been activated and gradually destroyed the cells in your pancreas that make insulin (the beta cells). This is often misdiagnosed in adults as T2 as many GPS seem unaware that adults can develop this. It is often a virus that tips us over the edge into a crisis as the remaining beta cells can not produce the extra insulin that is always needed when we are ill.

People with T2 are still able to produce insulin and can take medications to help their bodies produce more insulin or to enable their body to use their insulin more effectively. Some people with T2 wilo Also need to inject insulin.

What insulin’s are you using to manage your condition?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @TinaC

Yes, don’t feel any regrets that you might have been able to reverse your type 1. It can be a confusing business when surgeries assume T2 when diabetes develops in adulthood, but T1 can develop at any age, and even more confusingly, sometimes it can come on slowly in later life as the rate of beta-cell loss is slower which can fox the medics even further!