GAD antibodies

Sheppie84 said:

What are your GAD levels? What is a normal level?
Was told today mine are at 2000 which is very high.
Any advice?
Thanks.


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Hey... mine were also around that level - I didn't quite take it all in as was pretty upset at the time - but I remember he said that normal level was below 5, and mine were "extremely elevated" - when I asked him what that was in numbers, he nervously replied "over 1,500". I was already crying so I don't think he wanted to alarm me further - but yes, somewhere similar to yours and yes, by his reaction, this is obviously rather high...

http://www.diabetesresearchclinicalprac ... X/abstract takes >18 as positive
http://www.southend.nhs.uk/pathology-ha ... ntibodies/ takes >1um/l as positive.

so yes it seems pretty high!