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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 734636" data-attributes="member: 94348">Hi, Diamattic, I am type one, and had no extra weight though on a strict diet to stay at that weight - then i  just stopped having to diet - i never gained, never lost weight at first.  Then i slowly lost a small amount - not much but it was remarked i was had lost a bit too much, i stayed at this but became more susceptible to infections and the common diabetes symptoms.   i tend to wonder, as someone said in another thread, whether there is a big difference between children with Type one, and some slow onset adults - to the extent there may be two separate diseases.   Also, i think i recall that in  twin  studies  both may have autoantibodies related to Type one, and both may show signs of the attack, but in one the attack is fast, and in the other is less sustained, and they do not develop Type one (but may do later). Re any time  desert island, not a good idea to even think of it!! Insulin is amazing stuff and i would not wish having none on anyone -  survival on a desert island would be long , think dehydration would hasten death for a type one......re the pre insulin starvation therapy and the details of the situation then, especially for young children, lot on the net, and some academic papers - very  harrowing - see the story of Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, who lived by starvation for some years, and was the first to have insulin,<a href="http://www.weds-wales.co.uk/getfile.php?type=site...id" target="_blank">www.weds-wales.co.uk/getfile.php?type=site...id</a>...Elizabeth...doc.  <a href="http://www.irunoninsulin.com/?p=1661" target="_blank">http://www.irunoninsulin.com/?p=1661</a></blockquote>

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