Medicare test requirements Fasting Glucose Pump user

[SophieCat]

@DrBB had this same concern:

Medicare: pump supplies refused for C-peptide score?

So these tests weren’t a thing when I was dx’d back in 1983, neither was antibody testing. I recently went on Medicare and I now have to show a C-pep test to prove—AFTER FORTY YEARS WITH THIS GODFORSAKEN DISEASE—that I’m actually T1. I actually did get a c-peptide a few years ago and it was 1.8, which won’t qualify, but it was not done while fasting, so I’m going to have it done again and hope for the best. I’ve long known I produce some endogenous insulin, so who knows. Thoughts on how to get…