Endocrinologist

My endocrinologist is so excited that I am getting a sleeve!  I absolutely adore her - first endo I've ever had that listens to me, helps me, and feels for me.  I am truly lucky to have found her.

She told me that she does not want me to remove my pump - AT ALL - even for surgery.  She wants that basal dose going in on time - at all times.  I am hoping my surgeon doesn't have a problem with that.  I have never put my pump through anywhere but my tummy, but I guess I will have to find an alternate spot since my stomach will be where they are operating.

She also does not think they will give me a hard time in the hospital wearing the pump.  Apparently there was an issue last week where they did not let a bariatric patient put their pump on.  She works with a partner and the partner got so aggravated that she wrote them up for not allowing the pump to be used.  So she is pretty sure they won't want to go through that again.

She also plans on re-testing me to determine once and for all which type of diabetes I have.  It is a mystery for many reasons.

1)  I was diagnosed at age 26 and was only about 20 lbs overweight at the time.  I had never been truly overweight at that point.

2)  At 2 points in my life before diagnosis, my blood sugars dropped low enough to cause me to pass out.  I didn't know that at the time, but now that I know what this feels like, I am 100% sure this is what happened those times.  This shows that my blood sugars were off when I was as young at 17 and at a perfect BMI.

3)  I was diagnosed initially as a Type 2 diabetic and placed on metformin.  I only went on insulin to bring my A1C down to 7 in order to get pregnant.

4)  I am not insulin resistant - my endo thinks I should be taking 4x as much insulin as I am taking at my weight.  This points towards type 1...

5)  When I first started seeing her she sent me in for the testing to determine if I had the antibodies that will prove Latent Type 1 diabetes of adulthood - but LabCorp messed up the test.  Another test showed that my body was not making very much insulin, and that was enough for my insurance company to cover the pump so she didn't worry about repeating the test.

She truly thinks I am a type 1, but on the off chance that I am a type 2, there is a possibility that I can get off insulin after the surgery.  Wouldn't that be a kicker?