Ketosis prone type 2 diabetes

[Last Resort]

Hello, at the beginning of Feb I went into DKA. I only found out I was diabetic a day before that. I took 2 tablets of Metformin and a day after I collapsed. I am on insulin now (4 injections a day). My GAD and IA2 tests were negative. My c-peptide was 1150pmol (1.15nmol/3.47ng). I was told I might be Ketosis Prone Type 2 diabetic (I am type 2 but when my sugar is above 14 I need to start measuring ketones in my blood). Has anyone got any experience with KPT2? Could I possibly be in a honeymoon and actually had LADA? Diabetic nurses specialist told me that my pancreas produces enough insulin and the plan is to wean me off insulin and try antagonist GLP-1 instead. Any thoughts on that too?

 

[Benny G]

Diabetes comes in many flavours

Ketosis-Prone Diabetes (Flatbush Diabetes): an Emerging Worldwide Clinically Important Entity

Ketosis-prone diabetes or Flatbush diabetes has been widely recognized as a clinical entity since 1984. Most of the early clinical studies focused on African American or Afro-Caribbean individuals. It is now being recognized as an important clinical entity ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Last Resort

We had a new member @GreenT join recently who had also been told they might have ketosis prone T2, which was not a classification I had heard of

https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/newbie-to-group.99086/#post-1155629

 

[Lucyr]

It's not a clssification i've been assigned, but i do have T2 and am prone to getting ketones easily so seems interesting