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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2335012" data-attributes="member: 475037">Needing insulin within 3 years of diagnosis is a sign of possibly being a type 1. Did you get the antibody tests and c-peptide?While a positive antibody test is a sign of type 1, a c-peptide tells how much insulin you are making. A low or low normal is a sign of type 1, high or high normal is a sign of type 2. A type 1 doesn't make enough insulin and it slowly decreases over time to zero or close to zero and that process can take over 8 years plus in some people. A type 2 makes insulin, they just don't utilize it right so they usually are making more than "normal" people. A few type 1's test negative on the antibody test but don't make insulin and they don't know why. My diabetic educator is one of those.But if you are doing everything right and things don't make sense, you could be a type 1 and not a type 2.  40% of type 1's are misdiagnosed at first as a type 2. I'm not saying you are but it is something to keep in mind.<a href="http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2015/sep-oct/tests-to-determine-diabetes.html" target="_blank">http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2015/sep-oct/tests-to-determine-diabetes.html</a></blockquote>

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