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Nobody ever spontaneously recovers from T1 diabetes do they??
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sadly no.
According to the LADA website
http://www.locallada.swan.ac.uk/what.html LADA can take from 1-6 years to develop to the time when insulin is necessary.
Personally I found that the development of LADA to be relatively slow.For various foolish reasons, it was a long time between my first symptoms (huge weight loss, drinking etc) and the time I went to the doctors
During that time there were periods when I felt quite well and could put it to the back of my mind, others when I redeveloped the symptoms of high blood sugars. It took three years and a bout of more severe symptoms to end up in hospital. A year later I still find times when it is relatively easy.. certainly much easier than many of the other people on this board.. to control my BS.
I think that maybe
(lots of caveat words here) during the development of LADA there are periods when you have more insulin production than others. Perhaps the anti bodies that kill the beta cells are present but either not in the same numbers of not as aggressive as those that cause the rapid destruction in classic type 1.There has also been another thread describing times when 'classic' type 1's have periods when they need less insulin. People suggested that this was caused by the continual regeneration and subsequent destruction of beta cells.
