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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sgm14" data-source="post: 2728600" data-attributes="member: 517358">Interesting. This suggests that you can have GAD antibodies without going on to be Type 1. I always thought it meant that your insulin-producing cells were being killed and if you weren't already at the stage where you were classified as Type 1, it was just a matter of time.The terms LADA and Type 1.5 still confuses me as people seem to mean different things by the terms.For some LADA is just type 1 which develops later in life. For some Type 1.5 is a different type of diabetes which has half-way being Type 1 and Type 2.And some people say they are two terms for the same thing. When I first got diabetes I was diagnosed as Type 2 (mainly due to my age - being over 50 at the time), but later this was changed to Type 1. The endo who confirmed the change also said that he thought I was normal Type 1 and that it didn't look like LADA or 1.5. Unfortunately I was not able to get him to explain why he thought that or what the difference was. I'm also not sure how important the correct diagnosis is (at least from a medical point of view and ignoring costs/insurance etc) . I don't have any complaints about my misdiagnosis although perhaps I am just lucky. When I was moved from metformin to insulin, but still categorised as Type 2, I raised the question about whether I could be type 1, the endo at the time wasn't really interested and said it did not matter to him as treatment was the same. But when I mentioned that to someone I got an extremely angry response. (I should add, that was not on this forum) The only reason I pushed for the second endo to do an antibody test was because I felt really,really stupid not really knowing how to response when non-medical people asked me if I was Type 1 or Type 2.</blockquote>

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