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<blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 132195" data-attributes="member: 12578"><p>You know the answers as you've asked before. </p><p> You probably have some residual insulin production, how long it will last, who knows? This possibly puts you in the same position of some type 1s who take the minimum insulin necessary to avoid DKA (mostly when they're adolescent who wrongly think that they are clever enough to control what they are doing). If they avoid DKA, further complications don't show up immediately, they are insidious and show themselves some years later. This isn't anecdotal, in one long term Joslin study women who took less insulin than they should, both died younger and had greatly increased rates of complications. It doesn't take too much searching on the internet to find people who very much regret doing this when younger.</p><p>I possibly have some insulin production left, so do half the people who have had type 1 for 50 + years. Why don't you read about those people rather than focus on problems?</p><p><em>50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes Sheri Colberg</em> is a book with positive accounts.</p><p>I'm extremely thankful for this residual function, it probably makes control easier. I also know that taking insulin may well help preserve it.... certainly the toxic environment of high glucose levels would eventually kill any remaining cells... but I doubt if anything we say will convince you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoenix, post: 132195, member: 12578"] You know the answers as you've asked before. You probably have some residual insulin production, how long it will last, who knows? This possibly puts you in the same position of some type 1s who take the minimum insulin necessary to avoid DKA (mostly when they're adolescent who wrongly think that they are clever enough to control what they are doing). If they avoid DKA, further complications don't show up immediately, they are insidious and show themselves some years later. This isn't anecdotal, in one long term Joslin study women who took less insulin than they should, both died younger and had greatly increased rates of complications. It doesn't take too much searching on the internet to find people who very much regret doing this when younger. I possibly have some insulin production left, so do half the people who have had type 1 for 50 + years. Why don't you read about those people rather than focus on problems? [i]50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes Sheri Colberg[/i] is a book with positive accounts. I'm extremely thankful for this residual function, it probably makes control easier. I also know that taking insulin may well help preserve it.... certainly the toxic environment of high glucose levels would eventually kill any remaining cells... but I doubt if anything we say will convince you. [/QUOTE]
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