Woodworker
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Hi everybody - I'm off to the hospital diabetic clinic tomorrow and it looks like I may be going onto insulin.
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Type 2 going onto type 1
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Hope everything goes ok.
Do you mean you were misdiagnosed as type 2?
Type 1 and type 2 are completely different conditions and you do not progress from 2 to 1.
Type 1 is not type 2 on insulin. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease where our bodies decide it doesn’t like insulin producing cells and kills them all.
Do you mean you were misdiagnosed as type 2?
Type 1 and type 2 are completely different conditions and you do not progress from 2 to 1.
Type 1 is not type 2 on insulin. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease where our bodies decide it doesn’t like insulin producing cells and kills them all.
Agree with @helli . Are you currently Type 2 who may be going onto insulin? A friend of normal weight was diagnosed initially as Type 2. After a few months he was put on insulin and his control improved immensely. Subsequent tests showed he was actually Type 1.5.
It would be useful if you gave more background.
It would be useful if you gave more background.
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Welcome to the forum @Woodworker
Yes it’s quite possible to be T2, but also to need insulin, and that doesn’t mean your type has changed, just that you need a slightly different treatment.
It used to be around 30% of the type 2 population who eventially needed insulin to help manage their blood glucose levels, and because of the higher proportion of people with type 2 diabetes this works out at around 1.2-1.3million people with T2 using insulin in the UK I think. There are only around 400,000 people living with type 1 in the UK, so there are actually many more t2s using insulin than the total number of T1s!
I think these numbers are changing slightly because the advent of new injectable therapies in T2 mean that fewer people are moving onto insulin.
Do you know which insulins you will be using?
Yes it’s quite possible to be T2, but also to need insulin, and that doesn’t mean your type has changed, just that you need a slightly different treatment.
It used to be around 30% of the type 2 population who eventially needed insulin to help manage their blood glucose levels, and because of the higher proportion of people with type 2 diabetes this works out at around 1.2-1.3million people with T2 using insulin in the UK I think. There are only around 400,000 people living with type 1 in the UK, so there are actually many more t2s using insulin than the total number of T1s!
I think these numbers are changing slightly because the advent of new injectable therapies in T2 mean that fewer people are moving onto insulin.
Do you know which insulins you will be using?
Woodworker
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Hi thanks for your reply's - It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride since the visit to the diabetic clinic the reason they wanted to put me on insulin was I was taken off Metformin a while ago because my Kidney results were not to good, After a visit to Renal at the hospital my blood results on the kidneys had evened out so they gave me a appointment in 6 months, but my blood glucose had started to creep up. After a big change in my diet before visiting the diabetic clinic I managed to get glucose readings down below 10 mmol/l. After a long chat with the diabetic nurse she gave me 3 month to see how I manage my blood glucose over that time and if I can get the glucose levels down to a reasonable reading I my not have to go on insulin.
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