[dbc]

Hi, has this happened to anybody here?

I'm LADA/T1.5, 54 yrs old, diagnosed just on 2 years back with an A1c of 7.4%. Switched to a low carb diet and pulled the A1c back to 6.5 over 6 months - it then started creeping up and the endo put me on metformin, which pulled the A1c back to 6.0. (BTW, I'm not overweight, if anything to thin, so I think the metformin is preventing liver dump rather than affecting insulin resistance).

My morning fasting levels jump around all over the place in a range 6.5 to around 8(mmols/l), but graphing them shows a definite upward trend, presumably as the beta cells slowly cave in.

Now over the last 6-8 weeks my fasting levels have been dropping! - half the time they're under 6, the highest has been one reading of 7.2. I'm due for a Dr visit next month to find out whether the A1c agrees.

Other than my meter suddenly going crazy - which I don't think is the case. This reducing trend started in the middle of one of my packs of test strips and has continued with the new lot.

Nobody ever spontaneously recovers from T1 diabetes do they??

[HelenM]

Nobody ever spontaneously recovers from T1 diabetes do they??

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.

[sbuff28@charter]

I asked my endo the same thing. He said Nope, no-one has ever been maracuously cured from type 1 diabetes