Please help wrong diagnoses Type 1 Diabetes?
I was Recently diagnosed by the hospital of having type 1 diabetes… is what they said. I went into the hospital because my sister is diabetic so my dad check my sugar level and read High Glucose, meaning over 600. The hospital took blood for lab testing and i got the A1C test back which was 10% (average 250) after being on insulin for a month went back in and my A1C was down to 8%. then we got clear as mud news. My Islet cell antibody test all came back negative. they still want me to continue with insulin because it helps regulate.
Any ideas of what this could be?
My sugar levels suddenly have been running low when i sleep and all day so they have decreased by 24 hour Lantus to 12 where i started at 25. and im still running low at night. during the day i was at 1 unit for every 15 grams and now am down to 1 to 17.
Well other that the fact i have diabetes i’m a completely healthy 17 year old boy.
Best Answer
As for your insulin requirements, you could be going through your “honeymoon” phase. This is normal and common. Nearly diagnosed diabetics can go through a time when they need very little insulin and sometimes none at all. However, unfortunatley it’s temporary and then you go back to needing insulin like you did before.
There are some other posssibilities, but they are rarer and therefore less likely:
-you could be type 2 instead of type 1 (unlikely since you’d probably need a lot more insulin than you’re already on)
-you could have a genetic form of diabetes such as MODY or another one. You don’t say that ages that you were diagnosed, so it’s hard to say.
I’ve been a type 1 diabetic for 26 years (since I was 4 years old) and it hasn’t stopped me from doing anything (SCUBA diving, studying abroad, playing several sports)–I just had to plan more than my peers. It sucks, but it’s not the end of the world though either.