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<blockquote data-quote="moonstone" data-source="post: 156672" data-attributes="member: 6133"><p>Agree completely with Phoenix on the info given. I recently had my bloods retested as I was suspicious I'm not really a type 1 but it turns out I am. At diagnosis in March 2008 I was not making autoimmune antobodies. This time, in July 2010, I was. There were one or two other reasons for me doubting it too eg only requiring small doses of insulin and until August I'd never seen a ketone since I was first diagnosed. So you can't entirely rely on the autoimmune antibody test if they're absent. If they're there, then you know, but if they're not - they can apparently come + go at times. They also look at how you physically present as the simplest solution is usually the right one. So if you present as a typical type 2, and initial tests don't say otherwise, that's how you'll get treated. I also had a c-peptide test in July this year and was making very little insulin. So I am a type 1, and they said that since I clearly had it coming for a long time (in hindsight) then I am most probably LADA. I also agree with one of you above who said you don't know why they're even called the same thing - hear hear, I have to keep trying to explain to people that they're completely different diseases with some similarities - a type 2 doesn't have an autoimmune attack destroying their beta cells, whereas a classic type 1 does, and the management/treatment of the 2 diseases appears to be world's apart in almost every way as far as I can see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moonstone, post: 156672, member: 6133"] Agree completely with Phoenix on the info given. I recently had my bloods retested as I was suspicious I'm not really a type 1 but it turns out I am. At diagnosis in March 2008 I was not making autoimmune antobodies. This time, in July 2010, I was. There were one or two other reasons for me doubting it too eg only requiring small doses of insulin and until August I'd never seen a ketone since I was first diagnosed. So you can't entirely rely on the autoimmune antibody test if they're absent. If they're there, then you know, but if they're not - they can apparently come + go at times. They also look at how you physically present as the simplest solution is usually the right one. So if you present as a typical type 2, and initial tests don't say otherwise, that's how you'll get treated. I also had a c-peptide test in July this year and was making very little insulin. So I am a type 1, and they said that since I clearly had it coming for a long time (in hindsight) then I am most probably LADA. I also agree with one of you above who said you don't know why they're even called the same thing - hear hear, I have to keep trying to explain to people that they're completely different diseases with some similarities - a type 2 doesn't have an autoimmune attack destroying their beta cells, whereas a classic type 1 does, and the management/treatment of the 2 diseases appears to be world's apart in almost every way as far as I can see. [/QUOTE]
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