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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1521098" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>This is nonsense. Type 2 does NOT become type 1. They are separate conditions, with separate causes.</p><p></p><p>My type 1 diabetes was not caused by poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, thanks. It was caused by my immune system killing off my insulin producing beta cells.</p><p></p><p>A type 2 diabetic might require treatment with insulin. It seems rather an unnecessariarly sweeping statement to say that insulin treatment in a type 2 is caused by poor control. However being treated with insulin does NOT turn someone with type 2 diabetes into someone with type 1 diabetes. All it does is turn them into someone with type 2 diabetes treated with insulin.</p><p></p><p>How your diabetes is treated doesn't determine what type of diabetes you have. What determines what type of diabetes you have is what causes the diabetes. In type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune attack of the beta cells, in type 2 the causes are broad and varying, from lifestyle (which would include diet, exercise, high stress work, shift work), genetics (there is a very strong genetic element to the risk of type 2) hormonal imbalances and other medications (for example steroid induced type 2 is well recognised, so someone constantly taking steroid inhalers for their chronic asthma may develop type 2 as a result of their necessary asthma treatment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1521098, member: 32394"] This is nonsense. Type 2 does NOT become type 1. They are separate conditions, with separate causes. My type 1 diabetes was not caused by poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, thanks. It was caused by my immune system killing off my insulin producing beta cells. A type 2 diabetic might require treatment with insulin. It seems rather an unnecessariarly sweeping statement to say that insulin treatment in a type 2 is caused by poor control. However being treated with insulin does NOT turn someone with type 2 diabetes into someone with type 1 diabetes. All it does is turn them into someone with type 2 diabetes treated with insulin. How your diabetes is treated doesn't determine what type of diabetes you have. What determines what type of diabetes you have is what causes the diabetes. In type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune attack of the beta cells, in type 2 the causes are broad and varying, from lifestyle (which would include diet, exercise, high stress work, shift work), genetics (there is a very strong genetic element to the risk of type 2) hormonal imbalances and other medications (for example steroid induced type 2 is well recognised, so someone constantly taking steroid inhalers for their chronic asthma may develop type 2 as a result of their necessary asthma treatment. [/QUOTE]
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