New T1D at 27 :(

[MarieB]

@jtenneson, here’s a really good post from someone who knows about LADA intimately

Melitta's Top Ten Tips for the Newly Diagnosed Person with Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

Despite what you may be told by medical professionals and what you might read, you (as a person with adult-onset Type 1 diabetes) are not “rare” or some “minority.” Adults represent the vast majority of new-onset Type 1 diabetes (Footnote 1); it is a widespread myth and falsehood that Type 1 diabetes is a childhood disease. Learn all you can, but at a pace that does not overwhelm you. Good sources of learning are Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner (although he does perpetuate some myths a…

it’s great advice imo