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cure for diabetes at last (this is for real)

graj0 said:
I hope there is some truth in the news and the wait for the treatment is too long. Unfortunately I made the mistake of reading the Dail Fail, I know, I should have known better, but I was lured by the headlines, at least I didn't buy the bloody thing.

"But the research also offers hope to the three million Britons with type 2 diabetes, in which the body doesn't make insulin or the insulin doesn't work properly. This version is fuelled by obesity, rather than the immune system and eats up a tenth of the NHS budget." (put another way 3.2 million diabetics, about 5% of the population, are using up 10% of the funds, shame on us type IIs, especially as it's all our fault, if you believe what the paper says).

Waste of time asking for their empirical evidence. Whilst there may be a connection, this sort of statement tends to gloss over a lot of the truth. Just makes me angry.
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Nicole169 said:
I am type1 diagnosed at three. It really is a daily battle and sometimes a minute by minute battle. I get tired sometimes..
We really do need a cure...
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hi Nicole, I am 46 years old and had it.since I was ten, I also have m.s. and addisons disease, yes it is knackering and last year in November I had to stop work. I hope this will prove to be positive in the fight for a cure for this problem, we have been told at least ten years away but its great news for future generations, so let us all be positive.
 
desidiabulum said:
Hello everyone.
[Removed potentially inflammatory remark] has anyone actually noticed that a real cure for diabetes has just been announced?
Doug Melton's breakthrough is front page news in todays' Times. Described as possibly the biggest health breakthrough since the discovery of antibiotics
Is anyone interested?
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That sounds fantastic, is it a cure for everyone as I have not seen the times?
 
Take it with a pinch of salt,
I'm now 54 was diagnosed with type 1 age 12,
The specialist doctor at the time promised me there would be a cure within 10 years,
that was 42 years ago!
It's not been easy but Can't say the disease has stopped me doing most things or been that bad for me.
I'm p! $$£d of waiting for the cure and no longer expect to see it within my life time.

It's just a shame that the government doesn't acknowledge that us type 1 s have a significantly lower life span,
Type1 having a life expectancy far lower than the state pension age is just not on, the pension age should be adjust for type 1 s to compensate,
 
Micky25 said:
It really is welcome news but I don't think it deserved all the hype in the press to be honest. The lead doc suggests at least 10 years before trials on humans and could be many more years, if at all, it becomes generally available. There are questions still to be answered as to what will stop our bodies attacking the new stem cells ? How often and how will they be delivered, cost, etc etc. Still. It's certainly a step forward.
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Apparently the injected islet cells are contained in some kind of capsule that blocks white blood cells so that the immune system doesn't attack them as alien cells (which of course it would anyway) and therefore the same would be true for the kind of attack that caused our diabetes in the first place.
 
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