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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2536025" data-attributes="member: 475037">I would be really suspicious of possibly being a type 1.What happens with a type one is they can eat extra food and lose weight. That's because you don't make enough insulin to actually process your food so some goes through you. Unwanted weight loss is a common red flag of type 1. Lifestyle and diet changes can work at first because as an adult onset you still make insulin for awhile, until you don't make enough and eventually it stops altogether. That can take years.I'm not saying you are. We all can have different metabolisms. But I would suggest if the problem doesn't seem easily fixable you might request a C-Peptide test and an antibody test. A C-Peptide test if  low or low normal, is a sign of being a type 1 because you aren't making enough insulin. High or high normal is a sign of type 2, because you are insulin resistant and make extra insulin to try to make up for it. An antibody test if positive is a sign of type 1, although a few type 1's don't have the antibodies and don't make insulin and they don't know why.</blockquote>

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