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Confused and feeling meh!

Sorry to hear your levels are still high nut glad you have some results back! My GAD test was negative but positive for IA-2 and ZnT8A - I did get all the results back at the same time though!
 
Scroll down on the link inka sent then it’s the middle stimulated column you’re looking at
 
Lucyr said:
My favourite topic I think my cpeptide might have been 265, with bg of 18 at the time.

Basically it all depends on your bg. If when you had that cpeptide taken your bg was normal and you hadn’t eaten then it points to t2

If your bg was high at the moment you had that cpeptide taken eg you’d just eaten or were high as always are, then you fall into the intermediate range. A T2 would fairly reliably produce more insulin than that, and a T1 would fairly reliably produce less, unless still in honeymoon.

I fell in that intermediate zone 15+ years after diagnosis, I only had one weakly positive antibody. They’ll likely take the overall picture into account, you do have some other pointers that it might be T1, if you have any antibodies that will make it more certain. I was left as a type ? for a while after my cpeptide and antibody test, before we decided to record it formally as type 1, and informally keep it as a ?
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Thanks for the info. I’m certain I had not had anything to eat from the evening before and my appointment was at 9am. I did have a cup of tea with milk.
 
mashedupmatt said:
Sorry to hear your levels are still high nut glad you have some results back! My GAD test was negative but positive for IA-2 and ZnT8A - I did get all the results back at the same time though!
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Oh really, that’s strange!! I wonder what the hold up is with the rest of the results then. Everything just takes so long and I’m not the most patient lol
 
Charmaine86 said:
Thanks for the info. I’m certain I had not had anything to eat from the evening before and my appointment was at 9am. I did have a cup of tea with milk.
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If your bg was 16 and not 4-7 then I’d expect it still counts as stimulated. Basically your pancreas will have been working flat out as hard as it could to get that bg down, and all it came up with was intermediate range.

You’ll have to wait for the official results but you can take it as “nothing says that’s definitely t2 as yet” id suggest
 
Lucyr said:
If your bg was 16 and not 4-7 then I’d expect it still counts as stimulated. Basically your pancreas will have been working flat out as hard as it could to get that bg down, and all it came up with was intermediate range.

You’ll have to wait for the official results but you can take it as “nothing says that’s definitely t2 as yet” id suggest
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Thanks Lucy, that’s what I was thinking but nothing is ever straightforward. The other thing that is playing in the back of my mind is that my cholesterol has always been fine sitting around 4.1-4.5. I had this done in April and it was 4.1 but had jumped to 5.4 in June and 5.7 in July- can’t get my head around that either
 
Charmaine86 said:
Thanks Lucy, that’s what I was thinking but nothing is ever straightforward. The other thing that is playing in the back of my mind is that my cholesterol has always been fine sitting around 4.1-4.5. I had this done in April and it was 4.1 but had jumped to 5.4 in June and 5.7 in July- can’t get my head around that either
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You said you’ve lost weight? Quick weight loss can temporarily increase cholesterol
 
All points to T1 for me but I'm not a medical professional - I'd be surprised if the other auto-antibody tests come back negative as your story is similar to mine 3yrs ago - I really hope you get the clarification soon - but whatever the results it does sound as if insulin therapy would be best
 
mashedupmatt said:
All points to T1 for me but I'm not a medical professional - I'd be surprised if the other auto-antibody tests come back negative as your story is similar to mine 3yrs ago - I really hope you get the clarification soon - but whatever the results it does sound as if insulin therapy would be best
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Thank you, it’s just all the waiting and I am worried that having high bg’s consistently for this long is causing damage to my organs and overall health. I have noticed my vision is becoming blurred which is also worrying me. I am also scared to eat anything with too many carbs and it’s not sustainable really. I don’t understand why they won’t treat what’s in front of them as if it is insulin I need, that’s what I should have surely regardless of the diagnosis. I really would like to stop the metformin and Glicazide as it is having any effect.
 
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