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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2741482" data-attributes="member: 585131">Yes - I'm really just trying to relay the conversation I had with my HCP 18 months ago now, but I believe that's also true - I kind of had the impression "why would you have me take this test and then spend even longer explaining all the ways that it might not tell me anything ?"[USER=565601]@Caz141[/USER] It isn't necessarily just getting older. Some simple figures - of all diabetes sufferers, 90% or so are T2. The rates of both T1 and T2 are increasing, but the rate of something "other" than classic T1 or T2 is about 2% - so anything other than "the norm" is quite rare.The median age of onset of T1 is surprisingly 29 - later than I would have thought, and I have no data, but I would have thought it unlikely that over a two year period, from having been diagnosed with high blood glucose - that this could be getting better while your pancreas is getting worse..  (just laying out what I would expect a doctor to be thinking).So - you can see from that that the system will see you as very likely T2. With a C-Peptide test, you can say for sure that your pancreas is capable of production of insulin; so you can feel much more confident in that (you are a statistic to the system, but everyone is unique to themselves).</blockquote>

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