type 1 or type 2

[runner]

Oh, I know you can be on both, but their rationale for giving me metformin was 'just in case you're actually type 2!', which was a touch bizarre!

Absolutely - don't understand how this could hav helped!!

 

[Northerner]

They weren't sure with me, diagnosed at 49, but the opinion is I started losing beta cell function a couple of years earlier but my running made best use of my depleted insulin levels, then I got a virus that blasted my pancreas and caused DKA...Type 1. I suspect if I'd reported the symptoms I'd had before this (weight loss, thirst, p'ing etc.) then they would have had me down as Type 2 because of my age and treated as such, although actually underweight, so not stereotypical.

 

[runner]

Perhaps you're a LADA. I don't think it makes any difference to the end treatment (as type 1, unless someone continues to be mis-diagnosed), just complicates the diagnosis.

Think I'd rather have been a MERC than a LADA - Midlife Emergency Re-evaluating diabetes Crisis!

 

[Steff]

hi i feel abit daft asking but what is LADA? sorry for the ignorance

 

[runner]

hi i feel abit daft asking but what is LADA? sorry for the ignorance

Hi Steff, I was ignorant too until Sunflower-harvester posted this:

Type 1.5 is called LADA-Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults-its type 1 plain and simpl but is often misktaken for type 2 as its usually diagnosed over age of 25-30 years, and usually doesn't present with ketoacidosis and sometimes people can be managed with tablets initially but if their blood levels of insulin are checked they are found to have a big insulin deficiency and most Drs feel its best to get them onto insulin straight away.

Basically its nearly identical to type1 (geneticall, metabolically and symptomatically) but in the early stages it behaves like type 2. Hope that helps explain where the confusion comes from.

Have a look at the links in my post below, which explains it further.

 

[Steff]

thanks alot for that runner x