Your symptoms do sound as though they could be Type 1. Type 1 and Type 2 are not mutually exclusive. The complete loss of insulin production nearly always occurs within a few months of the clinical onset in Type 1 and may not occur for many years in Type 2. Type 1.5 Diabetes is slowly giving way to more specific genetic forms of diabetes. The most common forms are several variants of glucokinase deficiency, an enzyme that plays an important role in the energy supply to the islet cells.
Diagnosis is rather complex and the diabetes usually very benign.
Many drugs have tiresome side effects in the first few weeks of use, which subside with time. If you are in fact proved to have Type 2 and are not having satisfactory results with your present medication you should perhaps talk to your doctor about two new oral drugs. You may also want to consider transferring to a specialised diabetes care unit with associated educational programs and telephone accessibility. Comments and Feedback . Privacy statement .