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    Type 3c, taking insulin, good/bad?

    Your reply from the first post has been aggressive, confrontational and derogatory, your answers misleading and at best irrelevant. You wrote what you wrote its there for every one to see, phrased in a childish derogatory manner. The"vague news article" was a quick search to your Insulting "...
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    Type 3c, taking insulin, good/bad?

    Hello again thank you for your reply all opinions are valued and welcome. The insulin resistance is possible although no test I have had gives any indication. type 3c was diagnosed not type 2 a commonly wrong assumption made by many in the medical profession. Potentially everyone on the planet...
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    Type 3c, taking insulin, good/bad?

    Hello and thank you for your reply, I,m still reading up on 3c there is a lot of good informative articles out there. The one constant that keeps appearing is the common misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of 3c and is often diagnosed as T2. 3c is the pancreas inability to make insulin because...
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    Type 3c, taking insulin, good/bad?

    Hello everyone hope you are well. This is more or less for type 3c who's pancreas have made them diabetic. The title is a question I have been mulling over for a while now, and let me be clear, don't stop taking your insulin, the ability of insulin is not what I'm questioning. Let me explain. On...
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    Any Type 3C people out there?

    Hi,Jdi sorry for the late response haven't been too well, yes, wild swings like 27 BG reading then later that day 6.5 BG no insulin taken and sometimes the other way around. Here's the thing, the consultant I got told me that as I was getting wild swings panky must be still producing insulin...
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    Any Type 3C people out there?

    Hi Jdi, first no your not alone there are stacks of people same as you and me. Acute pancreatitis two years ago left me 5 stone lighter after 3 months in hospital and 7 surgery's to deal with a cyst and necrotic tissue on the pancreas, type three diabetes on and off since then and yes Creon with...
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    COVID vaccine and extremely high blood sugars

    Hello Goonergal just to let you know you were right, talked to the GP today the actual HBa1c reading was 67 the 600 reading was for the amount of vitamin B in my blood, f,in nurse scared the **** out of me. I now have an appointment with the diabetes clinic in two weeks, when something looks so...
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    Problems with pancreatic enzymes taking creon and metformin

    Hello I'm in the same boat, two pieces of advice, as little saturated fat and cut back on all fat as possible in your diet, the diarrhoea, if oily is a consequence of not having the enzymes to process your fat content in food so in short, it comes out the way it comes in.its called steatorrhea...
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    COVID vaccine and extremely high blood sugars

    Thanks Goonergal, the nurse seemed a bit hysterical think she has misread it, I hope anyway or my blood must be more like strawberry jam. It's not by the way. Tested a few minutes ago now at 11 mmol so coming done.
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    Frustration

    Hello, similar experience astra zenica jab 6 days ago still getting readings 18+ It has something to do with the vaccine lots of people on the forum raising concerns, how long did it take to return to normal readings?
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    COVID vaccine and extremely high blood sugars

    Hello, kind of similar story, how long did it take for the levels to return to normal?
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    COVID vaccine and extremely high blood sugars

    Hello my story is similar just to compare, When did you get the vaccine? How much higher are both your readings? Have you increased insulin doses? And are the readings coming down and at what rate, curious to know
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    COVID vaccine and extremely high blood sugars

    Type 3 in remission. Hello got the astra zenica 6 days ago had a HbA1c test yesterday, the results as read by the nurse today were "600" ???? Does anyone know what that means? The nurse was having a fit. Tested myself on finger prick test 18mmol, shocked I have been in remission for 4 months...
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    Type 3c - how many are we?

    Hi skoz sort of similar chronic pancreatitis type 3c diabetes 3months in hospital lost 5 stone in weight. Real problems putting on weight started to graze constantly nuts, low carb and low/ no sugar snacks made some myself recipes on line hunt them out. Don't exercise, wait till things settle...
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    Am I on the path to requiring Digestive Enzymes?

    Hi, I was in the same position this may not apply to you and a pancreatic specialist will diagnose your condition better than any blog, but having said all that I had the same symptoms, you can increase your Creon dose and see if that works, you can't overdose on Creon I'm on 5x25000 with a...
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    Primal Paleo Keto Healing Books

    https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/media/1886886/type-3c-and-reduced-appetite.pdf Is your diabetes a result of pancreatitis? If so you could be T3. The above document is really good for me to eat right, gain weight and keep the diabetes under control. I take Creon to help the pancreas and...
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    Type 3, catch 22

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. This is exactly the information that I was looking for, people don't get Type 3 at all. it's not Type 1 or Type 2 plus pancreatitis or diabetes with an after thought of pancreatitis. So Thank you
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    Type 3, catch 22

    Hi just to let you know finally got through to the diabetes nurse after 6 hours, she said it's more likely to be type 1 the NHS don't use the term T3 but because it's been caused by pancreatitis they expect that when the pancreas calms down the production of insulin will increase back to normal...
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    Type 3, catch 22

    Hi, what I was told in the hospital was that I was producing little insulin they gave me a Lantus solo star pen,one injection a day with a setting of 12. I'm guessing The C-peptide test was done in the hospital but don't know for sure. As for getting a Docter, can't even get my GP, three weeks...
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    Type 3, catch 22

    Hi, the T2 diagnosis was done in the hospital last week, don't trust it that's why I think I'm T3,lack of insulin. The diabetes nurse didn't know what to say she is after all a diabetes nurse not a pancreatitis nurse what the Diabetes needs is in conflict with what the pancreas needs. I have...