How does adult onset Type I diabetes work? Is it “burnout” of the body’s ability to make insulin? Why isn’t it noticed sooner? Does good lifestyle prevent symptom development?
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Diagnosed at 53. My diet was shit, I lived on Coca Cola and at the time I was penniless and living on Top Ramen and oatmeal for a year or so with LOTS of sugar on the oatmeal.
No history in family and no triggering illness though I was DEEPLY depressed at the time. I went about a year undiagnosed as I had no insurance. My friends and family insisted I go to a doctor as I had lost 80 pounds which put me about 40 lbs under weight and I looked like death warmed over.
Doc tried to treat me as T2 but that was a failure. Once I got on insulin my health turned around and my weight has been locked in at 165 at 5′ 10″ for several years and I just got my A1C to 6.9 I still live on Coke but I just use a lot of insulin.
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