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I was diagnosed in 1985 as type 1 and put on pills that eventually stopped working and then in 1991 I had diabetes ketoacidosis and was in the ER and hospitalized and given insulin and yet still thought it was type 2 then when I moved to another city, I asked my new endo if it was type 1 or 2 and she said it was type 1
Type 1, or insulin dependent diabetes, was known for many years as Juvenile Diabetes. Scientists believed that children primarily got it.
Meanwhile, Type 2, or Adult-Onset Diabetes, was thought to be primarily an Adult disease.
Recently, it has been shown that adults get Type 1, and even more recently, that children get Type 2.
Unfortunately, the medical community generally goes by the old guidelines, using age at diagnosis for diagnosing their patients. Little by little, this is starting to change.
There are two tests that can be done to determine which type of diabetes a person has. As more doctors become aware of these tests, the more accurate diagnosis will be.
Because doctors can give pills for type 2 and tell you to lose weight. Doctors like to give scripts for pills.
Adult-onset type 1 diabetes is actually more common than childhood-onset, but this fact isn't widely recognized. Studies show that about 38% of people over 30 with diabetes symptoms were incorrectly treated for type 2 diabetes when they actually had type 1 diabetes.
The key reason for misdiagnosis is that type 1 diabetes Show Full Answer
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