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If anyone suspects a misdiagnosis, please read or pass this along. Melitta knows all about it from personal experience. she has listed in this topic the specific blood tests you should ask for

Melitta's Top Ten Tips for the Newly Diagnosed Person with Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

Despite what you may be told by medical professionals and what you might read, you (as a person with adult-onset Type 1 diabetes) are not “rare” or some “minority.” Adults represent the vast majority of new-onset Type 1 diabetes (Footnote 1); it is a widespread myth and falsehood that Type 1 diabetes is a childhood disease. Learn all you can, but at a pace that does not overwhelm you. Good sources of learning are Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner (although he does perpetuate some myths a…