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Which diabetes do I have type 1.5 or type 2

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Denise Shephard

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Type 1.5 LADA
Hi my name is Denise I have been a diabetic since I was 18 I'm on 48 units of lanctus and 16 units of nova rapid I'm afraid of hypos am I type 1.5 or type 2 I have been found unconscious on the kitchen floor before I'm scared it will happen again I was in denial for 2 years but I already have pins and needles in my feet and arms and a rapid heart beat should I be concerned I also have asmatha epilepsy and poly cystic ovary syndrome
 
Hi Denise - have you been on a carb counting course (eg DAFNE or a similar local one) so you can adjust your bolus insulin (the Novrapid) depending on what you happen to fancy eating? (since from how you have shown your insulin doses, it looks on the face of it like you are on fixed doses?)

There is normally always a reason for any hypo, and the main thing is to get to know enough about your own diabetes in order to try to avoid them happening again for a similar reason. If you haven't been offered such a course - well ask your DSN to get your name down for one!

Type 1.5 in its simplest form, usually starts off responding to Type 2 drugs (ie tablets) but after a period (usually years) becomes indistinguishable to T1 and only responds to insulin - whereas T1 needs insulin instantly and for ever.

Whilst polycystic ovaries are associated with T2 - you don't need to be diabetic of any type to have them - so nothing can be assumed about a person's diabetes, just because they happen to have them,

Without knowing all the actual tests you have undergone over the years, it's impossible for anyone on here to make a guess as to what 'Type' a person might be.
 
Thank you for getting back to me I have never heard of the Dafne course I thought that was just for type 1 when in was 18 I was in denial of the diagnosis and then when I was 22 I ended up in ICU on life support for 2 and a half weeks the test I have had are a hba1c the normal tests which people have I have about 3 hypos per week which starts my epilepsy off and I have seizures also my blood sugars are erratic I have been in and out of CCU since the diagnosis I struggle because of the side effects of the insulin's combined my diabetic nurse has said that I will be on these insulin's for the rest of my life its a scary thought
 
Start at the beginning please Denise. LADA as I said starts off by mimicking T2 and the T2 drugs like Metformin, Gliclazide (and others now cos there have been newer drugs added to the list of possibilities since those) are used to treat it and they treat it absolutely OK to begin with (but of course that's with people taking them as prescribed) but then they cease to have any effect whatever on the diabetes cos by then the diabetes behaves almost exactly as if it were actually Type 1 and ONLY insulin will work to treat it. Now - has something like this actually happened to you in the past where you were originally put on tablets, or not?

And if you have side effects (other than hypos) from the types of insulin they put you on - have they tried other types of insulin instead (if not why not - or haven't you told your team that you have side effects and what these are? I don't know of any in particular, but not ever drug suits absolutely everyone anyway) - plus MOST importantly - what advice has the hospital diabetes team given you about adjusting the insulin doses or some other way of avoiding hypos?

DAFNE is for T1s - but I don't understand how you could know it was only for T1 being as you say you've never heard of it?

Anyway - there's on online version of BERTIE (on of the alternative courses) which anyone can do - do you want to link for that?

Personally though - I'd start with Basal checking - ie a way of testing to see if the long acting insulin (Lantus for you at the moment) is doing it's job properly. See http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/info/?page_id=120 for an explanation of it all.
 
Denise Shephard said:
Hi my name is Denise I have been a diabetic since I was 18 I'm on 48 units of lanctus and 16 units of nova rapid I'm afraid of hypos am I type 1.5 or type 2 I have been found unconscious on the kitchen floor before I'm scared it will happen again I was in denial for 2 years but I already have pins and needles in my feet and arms and a rapid heart beat should I be concerned I also have asmatha epilepsy and poly cystic ovary syndrome
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Hi Denise
Sorry to hear you are having things so bad .
Warm welcome to the forum
 
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