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<blockquote data-quote="oldgreymare" data-source="post: 2381961" data-attributes="member: 20373"><p>The GAD result will help confirm whether or not your possible beta cell failure is due to autoimmune factors (indicating LADA, T1) but pragmatically the c peptide test may be more informative about whether you could be in a "honeymoon" state with fluctuating levels of your own insulin. This will help in how to manage going forward. </p><p></p><p>For example, I was originally diagnosed 12 years ago in Singapore. Presenting with fairly severe symptoms but no DKA. So my then endo put me on insulin and only tested for c peptide and GAD after 3 months and getting my HBAc1 down to 7%. Rationale was that maybe I was T2, but had exhausted my beta cells through insulin resistance. Extra insulin can help them recover. But GAD result was massively positive. At that stage my c peptide was low, but still measurable - in hindsight this meant a diagnosis of LADA, but not a term used there then. But this fit my clinical symptoms as even though I was not particularly well controlled in the first two years, it was only thereafter that I suffered a few episodes of DKA (one life threatening). Nowadays I am extremely sensitive to gaps in my basal insulin. </p><p></p><p>Fast forward to my last UK endo consult last December with a rather geeky research registrar. He was keen to recommend repeating GAD and c peptide testing as this is not recorded in my NHS results. Just had this done a couple weeks ago. My c peptide test came back effectively 0, down from a low level at original diagnosis. My GAD result is due Thursday - I'll report when I get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldgreymare, post: 2381961, member: 20373"] The GAD result will help confirm whether or not your possible beta cell failure is due to autoimmune factors (indicating LADA, T1) but pragmatically the c peptide test may be more informative about whether you could be in a "honeymoon" state with fluctuating levels of your own insulin. This will help in how to manage going forward. For example, I was originally diagnosed 12 years ago in Singapore. Presenting with fairly severe symptoms but no DKA. So my then endo put me on insulin and only tested for c peptide and GAD after 3 months and getting my HBAc1 down to 7%. Rationale was that maybe I was T2, but had exhausted my beta cells through insulin resistance. Extra insulin can help them recover. But GAD result was massively positive. At that stage my c peptide was low, but still measurable - in hindsight this meant a diagnosis of LADA, but not a term used there then. But this fit my clinical symptoms as even though I was not particularly well controlled in the first two years, it was only thereafter that I suffered a few episodes of DKA (one life threatening). Nowadays I am extremely sensitive to gaps in my basal insulin. Fast forward to my last UK endo consult last December with a rather geeky research registrar. He was keen to recommend repeating GAD and c peptide testing as this is not recorded in my NHS results. Just had this done a couple weeks ago. My c peptide test came back effectively 0, down from a low level at original diagnosis. My GAD result is due Thursday - I'll report when I get it. [/QUOTE]
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