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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted Account" data-source="post: 1985105"><p>I too want to minimise the drugs I add to my body and avoid taking headache pills, for example, unless my head really hurts and try to avoid taking antibiotics, for example. </p><p></p><p>However, as someone with type 1 diabetes, I see injecting insulin as something different. I need to inject insulin because my body doesn't produce any. If I did not have diabetes, my body would still have (approximately) the same amount of insulin (chemicals) in my body - the difference is my body would produce insulin itself, </p><p>Regarding your concern that insulin destroys peripherical nerves, my understanding is high BG causes neuropathy (nerve damage).</p><p></p><p>Type 2 is a different condition with some of the same symptoms. I don't pretend to fully understand type 2. However, what understand about type 2 is the insulin the body produces cannot be used - the body becomes insulin resistant. As a result, more insulin is required to produce energy from carbs. This excess of insulin causes problems such as weight gain. </p><p></p><p>As about 9 out of 10 people with diabetes has type 2, the majority of people of this forum have type 2. Therefore many of the messages on the forum relate to type 2 and are not always relevant to other types of diabetes such as type 1. This is just as true in the media when most of the time "diabetes" is mentioned, they mean "type 2 diabetes".</p><p>I sometimes wish the conditions had different names but then try to jump on the back of the type 2 band wagon in order to get heard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted Account, post: 1985105"] I too want to minimise the drugs I add to my body and avoid taking headache pills, for example, unless my head really hurts and try to avoid taking antibiotics, for example. However, as someone with type 1 diabetes, I see injecting insulin as something different. I need to inject insulin because my body doesn't produce any. If I did not have diabetes, my body would still have (approximately) the same amount of insulin (chemicals) in my body - the difference is my body would produce insulin itself, Regarding your concern that insulin destroys peripherical nerves, my understanding is high BG causes neuropathy (nerve damage). Type 2 is a different condition with some of the same symptoms. I don't pretend to fully understand type 2. However, what understand about type 2 is the insulin the body produces cannot be used - the body becomes insulin resistant. As a result, more insulin is required to produce energy from carbs. This excess of insulin causes problems such as weight gain. As about 9 out of 10 people with diabetes has type 2, the majority of people of this forum have type 2. Therefore many of the messages on the forum relate to type 2 and are not always relevant to other types of diabetes such as type 1. This is just as true in the media when most of the time "diabetes" is mentioned, they mean "type 2 diabetes". I sometimes wish the conditions had different names but then try to jump on the back of the type 2 band wagon in order to get heard. [/QUOTE]
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