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<blockquote data-quote="Seacrow" data-source="post: 2202571" data-attributes="member: 420515"><p>So, no food AND no insulin drops the IR. Explains why previous vomiting attacks, where I kept basal insulin going, didn't have the same effect.</p><p></p><p>Sounds plausible. It can't be quite that simple though, otherwise thousands of type two diabetics would be fasting for 48 hrs and reaping the rewards. Maybe you need to actually 'run out' of insulin, and a lot of type two's still produce some.</p><p></p><p>I'm now down to 20% of my 'standard' doses and still going hypo. I just ate an entire bar of chocolate, and an hour later my bg has gone up by a whole 5 mmol/l. I've suspended my basal again. It sounds like a dream to suddenly not need insulin and wave bye to the diabetes, but it's actually just causing more stress.</p><p></p><p>Yep, RVS is absolutely horrible. At diagnosis I was spending 18 hrs throwing up every fortnight, and another day and a half recovering enough to keep down food. I told my GP I was losing the will to live. It's a funny condition, only appears in people with a history of migraines. One of the current theories is that its an abdominal migraine, as opposed to a head-based migraine. With medication I'm down to 8 hrs a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Seacrow, post: 2202571, member: 420515"] So, no food AND no insulin drops the IR. Explains why previous vomiting attacks, where I kept basal insulin going, didn't have the same effect. Sounds plausible. It can't be quite that simple though, otherwise thousands of type two diabetics would be fasting for 48 hrs and reaping the rewards. Maybe you need to actually 'run out' of insulin, and a lot of type two's still produce some. I'm now down to 20% of my 'standard' doses and still going hypo. I just ate an entire bar of chocolate, and an hour later my bg has gone up by a whole 5 mmol/l. I've suspended my basal again. It sounds like a dream to suddenly not need insulin and wave bye to the diabetes, but it's actually just causing more stress. Yep, RVS is absolutely horrible. At diagnosis I was spending 18 hrs throwing up every fortnight, and another day and a half recovering enough to keep down food. I told my GP I was losing the will to live. It's a funny condition, only appears in people with a history of migraines. One of the current theories is that its an abdominal migraine, as opposed to a head-based migraine. With medication I'm down to 8 hrs a month. [/QUOTE]
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