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Not at all, it’s good to talk.
I wrote a long response, but basically.
Too much information early on in a diagnosis or pre-diagnosis can be counterproductive. Knowing your glucose levels at this second is pointless until you know why and what to do about it. Abbott would love everyone to have a meter.
Liz has been Group 1 (type1) from 15 (30+ years) and has a pump and a CGM hoping to get them connected soon (possibly, maybe fingers crossed) We don’t really keep up with definitions and just deal with getting on with living with it. Her Diabetes team have been fantastic, the dietitian less so TBF.
Sorry everybody this is the short version ;)
Chaley
Really don't know where to start without coming across as arguementative or a prick as in I know a allegedly know more than U bruv....from bitter experience and having access to private health care (London diabetic centre)
Your mate was told the last NHS short term money saving due to budgets. Long term ha1bcdrfthb tell you the square root of fuck all, especially if you are told it gives you a three month picture, it does not. At best six weeks...more like 4.
Those definitions of type 1 and type 2, as you are using the juvenile late onset definitions were out of date a decade ago. Last lecture I went to was 6...this old from abbot https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/diabetes-care/the-5-groups-of-diabetes.html not getting to lada and mody but think they have been superceded.
As yes I have to be fucking special diabetic, absolute shit for but brilliant for medical studies. But I do have a full listing of my DNA, and my DNA is used in many case studies of DNA which I stopped wanting to know about.
Maybe better to chat, stopped going the NHS endocrinologists as I knew more than them (yeah I know, more they said stuff and I produced copies of pier reviewed research that disagreed with them)
Edit: have had a beer and I'm not happy, so not trying to come across as a know it all cuntybollocks as I knew a little and the more I read and talked to people using me as a guinea pig it amazed me how little we know about our own bodies.