LADA??

[MarieB]

You might find this post by @melitta to be helpful

A Field Guide to Identifying the Misdiagnosed Person with Type 1 Diabetes

They are adults who come in droves to the diabetes online community, they write about how they are puzzled how they got Type 2 diabetes, when they are young and thin and athletic [Footnote 1]. Sometimes they are middle-aged and no longer at fighting weight. Sometimes they are older or elderly. They have been given Type 2 oral medications to control their blood sugar, but the oral meds are not working despite a very low carbohydrate diet and lots of exercise. They may mention that they have a…

our community was founded by @askmanny, himself a LADA originally misdiagnosed as T2D