Hi!
I was 31 years old when I realized something was wrong. I had been losing weight — about 30 pounds, without trying — and people kept congratulating me.
Then came the extreme thirst, the constant trips to the bathroom, the muscle aches I chalked up to getting older.
When I finally tested my blood glucose at home, it read nearly 400 mg/dL.
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My Blood Sugar was Dangerously High!
My A1C came back at 13%.
I had diabetes — though it would take years before I had the right diagnosis. My doctor assumed Type 2, which is what most doctors assume when presented with adult-onset diabetes.
I followed the advice: I took Metformin, changed my diet, added exercise. It helped at first, then stopped working. I tried a second medication. That stopped working too. No one told me that the reason my diabetes kept progressing wasn’t because I wasn’t trying hard enough — it was because I had the wrong diagnosis.
It wasn’t until I was referred to an endocrinologist, who ordered an autoantibody panel and a C-peptide test, that the real picture emerged: I had LADA diabetes, Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. My immune system had been quietly destroying my insulin-producing cells for years. Starting the right treatment — insulin — brought immediate relief. More than a decade later, I’ve achieved an A1C under 6% for the first time, and I manage my diabetes with an automated insulin pump and a CGM. I wrote Success with LADA Diabetes because I want to spare others the years of confusion, self-blame, and wrong treatment that I went through. If my story sounds familiar, you are not alone — and there is a clearer path forward.
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Success with LADA Diabetes
The patient’s complete roadmap to Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults — from screening and misdiagnosis through the “flaky pancreas” stage, insulin, technology, mental health, and the daily craft of managing diabetes well.
“An admirable book… valuable as an aid to both patients and medical practitioners.” — Professor R. David G. Leslie, MD, FRCP, Blizard Institute