| Type 1 or LADA -- Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood.
Review the type 1.5 forum stuff, and then ask ... or read Blood Sugar 101 ...
Seems to be caused by a couple things (maybe in combination?). Coxsackie virus B has a protein sequence similar to GAD-65, an enzyme found in the thyroid and in beta cells of the pancreas. So T lymphocytes make antibodies in response to the virus, which attack those organs/tissues.
In addition, Vitamin D is somehow implicated in the preservaton of beta cells, among other parts of the whole glucose metabolic system. That is all the farther I have gotten in reading about it ...
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5% 
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. | 
