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I got full blown T1D at about age 20 years.. I am now almost 91 OLD. There was NO pussy footen around.. I had the full blown simtums!! The Doctor sent me home with a list [no prescription required those days] for insulin and syring and needle and a pamphlet and said “practice on an orange the first time….but I stuck my leg the first morninganyway.. Wow in an hour I felt SO Good!!! No more thirst and peeing!!! I had been down to 118 lbs and got back up to 138 lbs in short time.
Sweetcharlie–well written!
But I kinda wish you hadden’t of capitalized the word old.
Hi sweetcharlie!
I’m with Ahh Life! From your posts, you don’t seem “OLD” at all! I see an always young-at-heart man who is SO tenacious!! Seems like you’re cookin’ with gas!
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LADA is type 1.
One of my sisters & I both have Type 1.
I graduated from nursing school at age 54. When I started working got a new primary care doctor. My fasting BSs were 130 and 139. He diagnosed type 2 diabetes. I didn’t buy it. No metabolic syndrome. Weight was low at 110lbs at 5’7”. An Endo said same thing and started me on avandia. Went to California as a travel nurse and my sugar was high even exercising and working and watching diet. Eno ordered .75 u it’s lantus. Joke. I read everything I could and bought insulin in Mexico and treated myself. When I got home had a different Endo and she was incredulous that I didn’t know I had type 1. One test a C-peptide showed I was not making any insulin. Still working as nurse and I do question doctors opinions a lot. Probably drive them crazy
Jane, keep on asking those questions! Hope you find MD’s who will listen/hear you. You need a partner to assist with your healthcare decisions, not a dictator.
I ticked both T1 and LADA because LADA is a form of T1 (definitely not T2)
Very true!
I consider myself T1 and that is a fair description of my condition. My condition is caused by total removal of my pancreas 8 years ago. I had a precursor to adenocarcinoma and the trade-off was die soon, or live with diabetes. This was an easy choice for me.
Our family has autogenic T1D. My dad was the first, then two of my brothers and myself, then my oldest son, then his oldest daughter. We thought it might be male specific until our granddaughter developed it. My son was diagnosed the youngest, at 8 months old.
I became diabetic a a 40th birthday present, 36 years ago. The Mayo Clinic’s description of LADA was what happened. At 45 I was on insulin. I had effortlessly lost weight and was 120 lbs. The Draconian diet had stopped controlling my illness.
I became a T1D diabetic when I had my pancreas removed 5.5 years ago at age 78. I use a CGM and Tandem pump. My main issue is low weight. Haven’t been able to gain since my surgery. K=I have a good healthy diet. Anyone out there with the same problem?
I was dx’d Type 1 in 1976 while in my late 20’s. My father was dx’d with diabetes in 1953 while in his early 60’s. He lived until his mid-80’s. At that time no differentiation was made between “types” of diabetes and the only treatment for him was insulin injections (U40 Protomine-Zinc). Growing up, watching him deal with his diabetes made it easier for me to accept my diagnosis several years after his death. I’ve done extensive genealogy research and have found a number of relatives on my father’s side where cause of death (in the 20th century) was listed as “diabetes”. I am unaware of any relatives on my maternal side with Type 1 diabetes.
Had it diagnosed at 13, but had suffered with the symptoms for a year prior. Worst year ever! Sports and not knowing, with parents keeping me active is what stoped any serious problems.
I was diagnosed at the age of 2 1/2 years. My mother was diagnosed first with Type 2 and later with LADA when I was in my 30’s!
I was diagnosed as T1D 30 years ago at age 31. I never heard of LADA before now but that may be a better description of my case. My glucose level was much easier to control in the beginning, though that may also have been because of my level of physical activity then.