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<blockquote data-quote="Melgar" data-source="post: 2688304" data-attributes="member: 520626"><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Hi[USER=558151] Marikev[/USER] thanks for your reply. </span>I’m so frustrated with it. Nothing really applies to me in the type 2 forums and the type 1 forums are usually about insulin, so that doesn’t apply either. They will not test for antibodies here in Canada unless all drug avenues have been tried and have failed. So I am in this liminal place of not knowing. </p><p></p><p>The bottom line is I am simply not producing enough insulin. I am currently on an off label drug that forces my pancreas to produce more insulin . It’s an ADHD medication. It’s not doing much for the ADHD, but it seems to be helping my blood sugars. It increases my ‘background insulin’ which is evident at nighttime, during the day it takes down the peaks. So today my blood sugars ran between 7.5 mmol/ls and 9 mmol/ls for the entire day without much deviation when I eat. It's dropped down now, but I'm about to eat ! Patience is not one of my virtues lol. [ATTACH=full]66828[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><h4></h4></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Melgar, post: 2688304, member: 520626"] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Hi[USER=558151] Marikev[/USER] thanks for your reply. [/COLOR]I’m so frustrated with it. Nothing really applies to me in the type 2 forums and the type 1 forums are usually about insulin, so that doesn’t apply either. They will not test for antibodies here in Canada unless all drug avenues have been tried and have failed. So I am in this liminal place of not knowing. The bottom line is I am simply not producing enough insulin. I am currently on an off label drug that forces my pancreas to produce more insulin . It’s an ADHD medication. It’s not doing much for the ADHD, but it seems to be helping my blood sugars. It increases my ‘background insulin’ which is evident at nighttime, during the day it takes down the peaks. So today my blood sugars ran between 7.5 mmol/ls and 9 mmol/ls for the entire day without much deviation when I eat. It's dropped down now, but I'm about to eat ! Patience is not one of my virtues lol. [ATTACH type="full"]66828[/ATTACH] [HEADING=3][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]
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