@Jim Lahey . Perhaps you could actually explain what you mean by reversing type 1 diabetes in this and other recent posts.
If I was T1 I think my response to them would tend to be the same as my response would be to all these other miracle diabetes cures that we constantly hear or read about - I'd ask if this is the case why haven't we heard about this then and all been cured by now? I can't imagine anyone choosing to go through life having to watch glucose levels constantly and taking insulin just for the hell of it...Spoken to a few people about this and it's really is beginning to annoy me. The news of course doesn't help as they keep writing rubbish about diabetes. My thoughts are he who knows it feels it. I have had diabetes type one for 29 years and all of a sudden I can be cured and get off insulin. What rubbish and it saddens me that people are spreading this utter rubbish around
I asked my GP six months ago about being in remission / reversed with my T2 and he said no but I was "under excellent control", I phoned Diabetes Queensland and asked the same question to one of the resident CDE there and she said the same thing that my GP said.Robbity
who isn't even convinced that her T2 can ever be anything other than (hopefully) "well controlled"...
Me neither @Robinredbreast. I need insulin for ANY foods. Even no carb/low carb.Reversing Type 1I wish. I cannot live without Insulin and I cannot even eat scrambled eggs and bacon without taking Insulin and that is technically not carbohydrates.
We are constantly told a cure, of some sort, is just around the corner, I was told 30 years ago, a cure will be found ( not a reversal) within a few years with research and funding, I have been keeping an open mind regarding type 1 for decades.
When I get the euphoric news from my Diabetes team or News at Ten, only then, will I have real hope for a possible future without Insulin.
Just to add, extracts I have posted before regarding diabetes management from my mum's Nursing book, back in 1910/20, a low carb diet was recommended, but patients eventually wasted away and died.
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I know some type1s in the 'office' experience resentment when they hv to go treat a hypo. Some nasty vicious mouths out there. Out of all ages, too. Maybe one who has upset @carol50?If I was T1 I think my response to them would tend to be the same as my response would be to all these other miracle diabetes cures that we constantly hear or read about - I'd ask if this is the case why haven't we heard about this then and all been cured by now? I can't imagine anyone choosing to go through life having to watch glucose levels constantly and taking insulin just for the hell of it...
Robbity
who isn't even convinced that her T2 can ever be anything other than (hopefully) "well controlled"...
Like the others, after 49 years of T1 my faith in a cure in "ten" or "twenty" years has just about vanished, though I'm optimistic for new young T1s.
But the treatment has improved dramatically from my childhood, when the only sugar level test was a test tube, a tablet, 5 drops of urine and ten of water. Glucometers were life changing, and so are cgms (or would be if they worked for me sigh).
There is a (sort of) cure now - I could have a pancreas transplant. (Though obviously that would depend on a match becoming available and the doctors being willing to give me one). Two reasons why I don't want to go down that route - rejection drugs and issues and the fact that though my pancreas doesn't produce insulin it does lots of other useful stuff (glucagon anyone?) and I'd really like for it to continue doing that. But I can see why people go for joint kidney pancreas transplants, as if you need a kidney you might as well get the pancreas too.
And going off topic slightly - given that T1s bodies presumably killed off our insulin producing cells - what's to stop our bodies from killing off any new insulin producing cells that are introduced?
Me neither @Robinredbreast. I need insulin for ANY foods. Even no carb/low carb.
This sounds a little more hopeful. Here transplanted cells are travelling into our inner galaxies, boldly dispensing insulin but needing less anti rejection drugs and less pancreases and much less invasive surgery. It is an EU funded project though so let us all hope that we can still benefit from it if and when it becomes an available treatment.Like the others, after 49 years of T1 my faith in a cure in "ten" or "twenty" years has just about vanished, though I'm optimistic for new young T1s.
But the treatment has improved dramatically from my childhood, when the only sugar level test was a test tube, a tablet, 5 drops of urine and ten of water. Glucometers were life changing, and so are cgms (or would be if they worked for me sigh).
There is a (sort of) cure now - I could have a pancreas transplant. (Though obviously that would depend on a match becoming available and the doctors being willing to give me one). Two reasons why I don't want to go down that route - rejection drugs and issues and the fact that though my pancreas doesn't produce insulin it does lots of other useful stuff (glucagon anyone?) and I'd really like for it to continue doing that. But I can see why people go for joint kidney pancreas transplants, as if you need a kidney you might as well get the pancreas too.
And going off topic slightly - given that T1s bodies presumably killed off our insulin producing cells - what's to stop our bodies from killing off any new insulin producing cells that are introduced?
@carol50 I can only compare your frustration with the ignorance of my weight loss fight despite every diet, even low carb and still needing insulin so I don't go black.
Strangely my GP told me today I'm type1 and type2.
How fed up and frustrated could I be if I didn't hv a plan to improve my health. With or without insulin. Confusion from different medic's medical opinion and diagnosis's.
I'm not really concerned what label I hv but I'm happy to improve my health for a huge anticipation of an accomplishment which I've only ever dreamed of. Which I cannot disclose until its firmly agreed in black and white. My only dream for myself I wish to come true.
Type??? I'm on insulin, been for over a decade with periods of attempting to do without insulin without success.
Ignorance comes from strange quarters at times. In fact I'm sure I'm ignorant in plenty I've not yet learned about.
Isn't that LIFE?
I send you comfort not everyone thinks the same. Some just sheep.
However thankful many on here hv removed their blinkers or never had them from the start.
We are all different. Thankfully eh?
I'm lucky I wasn't diagnosed at 6yrs old as I was chubby. My genes of chubbiness even when I ran around loads, cycled and swam but know one of my parents was a 'feeder'. There I wonder the problem lied. However I've never been a biscuit, crisp or chocolate eater. I've always loved high protein treats. Seafood, tinned mackerel and other fishy or meaty treats. I didn't like sausages or hotdogs or pepperoni. Soooo my query has always been had I naturally sourced high protein but now after been on insulin for more than 13yrs my protein needed insulin unlike as a child. I'll never know if I'm on insulin because I was IR only or if I was honeymooning on high protein and getting my energy from protein rather than the low carb eating I naturally preferred. Once I became pregnant 13yrs ago my body preferred insulin for me and baby. Everytime I wasn't on insulin no matter the meds I had uncontrolled diabetes... everytime.I have secondary diabetes due to pancreatitis but just tell people type 1, I also think labels are not needed
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