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Kidney Transplants.

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Have read this article and after a kidney transplant there are a percentage of patients who will develop Type2 diabetes afterwards. The cause is thought to be the stress involved and the use of immunosuppression drugs.
After surgery if the patients are immediately treated with insulin there appears to be a much lower risk.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232421.php

Not relevant to kidney transplants but do some Type2's think that high stress levels prior to diagnosis brought on their diabetes? My Consultant is convinced that was what happened to me.
 
I am totally convinced that high stress levels brought on my diabetes. There seems to be a consensus that I have probably had T2 all y adult life. Because I have alwys been slim active and followed a GI diet
there were no, or very few symptopms. I was aware that there was a genetic link but even when I felt that some symptoms were linked to diabetes my GP;s wouldn't believe it.
Eventually I collapsed ith a food allergy after a particularly stressful period with BG levels of 32. I am totally convinced sress was the cause.
 
I was screened for diabetes (with the dreaded Lucosade) & was not at risk. That was about 5 years before I was diagnosed.

I then had a road accident - overtaking a frog lorry driver (steering wheel on the wrong side) who changed lanes obviously without looking in his mirror. His os front corner hit my ns rear wing & spun my car across the front of his tanker so the main damage was on his ns corner & my ns central door pillar. My car spun from the hard shoulder across all 3 lanes to the centre, & back again across all 3 lanes to the hard shoulder, where a sloping bank guided me back onto the hard shoulder to stop safely.

We weren't hurt, Praise the Lord, & the car was still drivable but we were in a state of shock. That was about 2 years before diagnosis. Stress the cause? I thought so.
 
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