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What would you say if you had the symptoms of a common medical condition, but if after a year, none of the usual therapies worked?
What would you say if your doctor insisted that he had correctly diagnosed the disease as something chronic, but not necessarily debilitating, and was giving you medicines that all should be working?
Now, what would you say if there was a less-common form of that medical condition that had all the same symptoms, but was caused by a completely different disease -- one that was immediately life-threatening -- and which required a different form of therapy? What would you say if your doctor refused to consider the possibility of that less-common disease? And what would you say if there were two common tests that could confirm whether or not the less-common diagnosis was correct, but your doctor refused to order them?
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Tags: LADA MODY stereotypes type 1 Type 2 Type 3
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I am not a number. -- "Number 6", The Prisoner
One of the questions asked in a recent #dsma chat had to do with the people we live and work with who are familiar enough with our diabetes care to support us, make sure we have appropriate food and drink as needed, who know how and when to administer glucagon, and what to tell the folk at 911 about us. Some debate arose over the common patient-community designation of these individuals as "Type 3s".
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After quite an eventful yet relaxing weekend, we're back to our regularly scheduled DIABETES' series. We've gone through DIABE, but we haven't yet finished the word. "T" gave me a little bit of trouble. I wasn't sure exactly where I wanted to go with it. I was focused on treatment, but felt it was a bit overdone. My final pick hit me when I heard that it was LADA Awareness Week.
T: Types of diabetes seem to get more complicated every year. I remember back in 1993 when I was diagnosed that there were really only two types. Type 1 for kids and type 2 for the adults. But over time, culture and the environment has changed. Now it seems that we know of so many different kinds of diabetes that I'm not sure we can ever be sure of what type we actually have.
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