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Recognizing and Appropriately Treating Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes (blog article)

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Northerner

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In 2016, I attended an amazing conference for those with Type 1 diabetes and their loved ones, CarbDM, held in the San Francisco Bay Area. The opening presentations illustrate a simple cause and effect relationship: if the medical community and diabetes organizations promote that Type 1 diabetes is a childhood disease, those who acquire Type 1 diabetes as adults are misdiagnosed as having Type 2 diabetes, an altogether different disease, and given inappropriate treatment. It is important to know that most new-onset Type 1 diabetes is seen in adults.

http://adultt1diabetes.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/recognizing-and-appropriately-treating.html
 
I've been T1 for twenty one years, but that still sticks me in that group misdiagnosed from the get go. My mum was 30 when she was first diagnosed. It's such an old fashioned view that this is a childhood condition. It can happen at any age.
 
Yep - I was only 22 - but definitely an Adult ! Just lucky cos GPs knew more in 1972 than they apparently do now.
 
Yes, I was 46 years young when diagnosed.
 
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