Kathy's Page

Thank you for the welcome everyone!! I'm not totally 'new' to this diabetes game. I fainted 3 years ago was taken to the ER and was hydrated and released. No glucose was ever tested - you see...at the time I didn't have any known cases of diabetes in my family and I don't fit the T2 'look'. Forward 8+ months and I was really sick. I believe I had a seizure in the middle of the night that my cat woke me out of. I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror - I was gray. This very same cat was diagnosed diabetic 6 weeks prior - as a joke I tested with her meter. The joke was on me! The meter read 220. I tested again in disbelief but it was correct. I've been diagnosed diabetic and undiagnosed (5 or so times total) since antibiotics brought my FSB numbers down. Finally got into an endo and diagnosed again per the OGTT. She discovered I am insulin sensitive (she did insulin levels during the OGTT). T1 testing for antibodies came out neg. (GAD65 was .2) Also I don't have high BP or high triglycerides. I am missing my first phase response. With the OGTT after I drink the solution my teeth chatter and I shake and go up fast - on the 3rd hour I shoot back down to normal (100). Before this my brother was diagnosed T2 (typical metabolic issues high BP, high triglycerides). So the endo in March of this year declared me T2. My C-peptide is 1.7 (range .8 to 3.1). My fasting is normal again (was only elevated when I was sick and a few months after in pre-zone). But I have trouble eating. So...I come to find out per a paper that was published April '08 my psoriasis which I have had since age 16 and also I have the TSI's for Graves' but no Graves' well it's all linked to T1. Upon reading a diabetes manual I found out I could still be LADA since I have this genetic fault. Thus is why I say who knows what type. I eat practically grass to stay where I am at!! Kind of tired of it all. I know my endo is looking for a T1 connection. I told her about my great grandfather having vitiligo (sp?) and she perked right up and wanted to know if he had T1. That was a no. Right now my thyroid is going hypo without TPO's. Endo finds this odd. So do I !!! But all and all I'm ok :-)
New info....I'm DQ8 A1*03 B1*0302 and a Celiac. Doing much better on a gluten free diet. Right now holding steady and doing ok.
New labs (June 09) It appears that my TSH is in a better range since going gluten free!! In 3 months it will be checked again - hope this remains true! On the bad...my A1c went up so I upped my Met. Huh on that...my lipids look great (which were never bad) . Wish I could figure out why I'm becoming more diabetic!!!!!!!