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<blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2278712" data-attributes="member: 475037"><p>Make sure they run an Antibody test and a C-Peptide test.Your symptoms are more a type 1 thing than a type 2 thing. Loss of weight is a biggy for a type 1 as they can't utilize the food they eat when they aren't taking insulin. rarely even on meds do type 2's get DKA because they still make insulin.</p><p></p><p>The first test to see if you are a type 1is an antibody test. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease that means your own body attacks your beta cells that make insulin. The antibody tests tell you whether your body is destroying the cells. A few very rare cases people don't have the antibodies but still don't make insulin.</p><p></p><p>The next test is a c-peptide test. This will tell how much insulin you are making. A type 1 will test at a low normal level or a low level and keep decreasing over time. A type 2 will test at a high normal or high level because they are making enough insulin or even more than a "normal" person they just can't use it properly, they are actually insulin resistant. C-peptide is only made by your body to match the insulin your body makes and has nothing to do with using insulin. It will still tell you how much insulin you are actually making, which will slowly decrease over time if you are a T1.</p><p></p><p>As a type 1/LADA especially when you get it as an adult you still make some insulin for a while until it slowly stops, that can actually take a few years to complete and it also is one of the causes that so many type 1's are misdiagnosed at first as a type 2. That is the honeymoon period. But you are 20 years old and the process is usually faster when you are younger.</p><p></p><p>There are some people that get both type 1 and type 2. Both are inherited diseases and type 2 is even more an inherited disease. Most type 1's don't have a problem with insulin resistance that a type 2 has. It is a little rarer to have both. But a type 1 feasibly could not be producing insulin and not use the insulin very well that they take. So you can end up with both. But that just seems so unlikely at the age of 20 but who knows, especially with a family history of type 2.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marie 2, post: 2278712, member: 475037"] Make sure they run an Antibody test and a C-Peptide test.Your symptoms are more a type 1 thing than a type 2 thing. Loss of weight is a biggy for a type 1 as they can't utilize the food they eat when they aren't taking insulin. rarely even on meds do type 2's get DKA because they still make insulin. The first test to see if you are a type 1is an antibody test. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease that means your own body attacks your beta cells that make insulin. The antibody tests tell you whether your body is destroying the cells. A few very rare cases people don't have the antibodies but still don't make insulin. The next test is a c-peptide test. This will tell how much insulin you are making. A type 1 will test at a low normal level or a low level and keep decreasing over time. A type 2 will test at a high normal or high level because they are making enough insulin or even more than a "normal" person they just can't use it properly, they are actually insulin resistant. C-peptide is only made by your body to match the insulin your body makes and has nothing to do with using insulin. It will still tell you how much insulin you are actually making, which will slowly decrease over time if you are a T1. As a type 1/LADA especially when you get it as an adult you still make some insulin for a while until it slowly stops, that can actually take a few years to complete and it also is one of the causes that so many type 1's are misdiagnosed at first as a type 2. That is the honeymoon period. But you are 20 years old and the process is usually faster when you are younger. There are some people that get both type 1 and type 2. Both are inherited diseases and type 2 is even more an inherited disease. Most type 1's don't have a problem with insulin resistance that a type 2 has. It is a little rarer to have both. But a type 1 feasibly could not be producing insulin and not use the insulin very well that they take. So you can end up with both. But that just seems so unlikely at the age of 20 but who knows, especially with a family history of type 2. [/QUOTE]
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