Sorry, but this is a vast oversimplification. So are you saying that if the level chosen was 10, then anyone who tested 9 would positively be a T2 but anyone who tested 11 would positively be a T1? It is simply not that definitive a test. I gave multiple examples of that in references above, showing false positives and false negatives with the GAD test. Could you please read them and let me know what you think?
While you’re at it, I found this discussion on a diabetes.co.UK page where they quote reference ranges for what looks to be the same test as the one OP had. Certainly not definitive since third hand and ten years old, but a further indication that these tests are not by themselves definitive, and need to be interpreted along with other data. And of course, OP needs to use his own doctors and labs to interpret his results correctly, rather than relying on your, or my, or ANY internet source. ( https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/how-do-i-convert-from-u-ml-into-nmol-l.84015/)
“ Heres the reference range given by Southend NHS lab
Reference Range
Results should be interpreted as follows
Negative result is 0-5.0 U/ml
Equivocal result is 5.1-25.0 U/ml
Positive result is >25.0 U/ml “
I think that’s great and I hope for your sake that they confirm that you are indeed, based on all current data, best managed as a T2 unless and until data comes in that contradicts this.
Maybe I have misunderstood something, but based on what you have written your A1c and random BG tests have improved dramatically using only metformin. Is that true? Is your control using metformin looking good - are you losing weight and improving A1c and BG tests? As Luis relates, diet, exercise and weight loss can be very effective in managing T2 diabetes for the long term. And at the end of the day, getting your diabetes under control is by far the most important goal. If you are achieving that and maintaining that, then the rest is really secondary.
The endo appointment sounds like great news even though it means more waiting. Your advocacy paid off and it sounds like your GP agrees with you that more needs to be done. The app showing Type 2 explains your experience at the diabetes clinic.
I hope you don’t have to sell body parts to pay for the endo appointment or any of the tests the they order. Just to set expectations it might take more appointments with the endo and more tests to get things sorted out or they could take one look at you and give you a plan to get better. Be ready for both.
it’s interesting Marie that you say type one could’ve been set off by a virus as well as by COVID. I did have COVID but it was before I was diagnosed but maybe I had it because of it. That’s interesting thing about half environmental half genetics sparks my interest what about environmental toxins in the environment? I have other autoimmune problems and type one is autoimmune. I also know that 40% of people diagnose type two are really type one. I was like two years called a type two taken seven medicines now I just take insulin and then heart a fib medicine
