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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 153
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Originally Posted by shelley
Hi Barb and Carolyn,
Thanks for the insight!
Hmmm type 1.5 I have not heard of that. But I sure have other autoimmune issues...thyroid.
I really do need to change my ways and try to reverse atleast some of this.
So I started on the metformin  how come the prescription did not come with instructions to know where every bathrrom is. I am supposed ot up the amount each week until I am up to four pills a day.  Guess four pills a day is not borderline.
Great idea on the nutritionist. I think I will look into that. I also bought some supplements like Cinnamon and something with chromium in it.
Barb I am so glad you have it controlled and Carolyn happy to know your AC1 levels are dropping.
My last AC1 was 5.4. Thats still good right?
Carolyn I am sorry no one responded to your pump question
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Ya know, I had never heard of it either until I started reading my diabetes specialists notes on my office visits with her ( she kept waffling over type 2 vs type 1.5 in the notes) and questioned her about what that meant. It has only been in recent years that any attention has been given to the adult version of juvinile diabetes. In fact, many doctors, even the diabetes doctors, are not very familiar with it. I was finally correctly diagnosed when I had the Anti-Gad and C-Peptide tests run to start the process of getting Medicare to pay for an insulin pump. I was injecting two types of insulins on average of 6 to 8 injections a day!!! It was not painful but life had to be so carefully planned every day around my eating and injection schedules. Now, with the pump, I can actually have some normalcy in my life.
If you Google "autoimmune diabetes type 1.5 adult onset" you can find some really interesting reading. A lot of diagnosed Type 2 diabetics are really not Type 2 at all and would benefit from earlier intervention and insulin tx. I so wish that I had been correctly diagnosed years earlier and had been able to go on the pump years ago instead of struggling with "brittle" diabetes for so long. One never feels good when your blood sugars are all over the place every day. Now I'm more level and steady and feeling so much better and energetic!
Your A1c at 5.4 is awesome! Mine was over 8 and I am struggling to get it down below 7. It's difficult because I make no natural insulin of my own!
Carolyn
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