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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I have complete loss of hypo awareness. This has not improved with pump or CGM. There are psychological blockers that make me very resistant to running high, so I'm currently standing no chance at regaining my awareness. I was only diagnosed coming up to 6 years ago.
My consultant has advised that I meet the criteria for islet transplant and that she would refer me to the transplant team to discuss islet cell transplant, or even a full pancreas + kidney transplant. The idea being that I would have endogenous insulin production while the transplant worked, I'd be euglycaemic for that period and so I would regain hypo awareness during the respite period and able to make a fresh start at diabetes as the transplanted cells wore out.
I know next to nothing about this.
Has anyone had an islet cell transplant? Can anyone point me in the right direction of where to start researching whether it is something I should be seriously considering?
Is it something that helped your hypo awareness? Were you able to come off insulin? How long for? Did the immunosuppressants do anything to your kidneys? How did you cope with knowing you were just going to end up diabetic again?
My consultant has advised that I meet the criteria for islet transplant and that she would refer me to the transplant team to discuss islet cell transplant, or even a full pancreas + kidney transplant. The idea being that I would have endogenous insulin production while the transplant worked, I'd be euglycaemic for that period and so I would regain hypo awareness during the respite period and able to make a fresh start at diabetes as the transplanted cells wore out.
I know next to nothing about this.
Has anyone had an islet cell transplant? Can anyone point me in the right direction of where to start researching whether it is something I should be seriously considering?
Is it something that helped your hypo awareness? Were you able to come off insulin? How long for? Did the immunosuppressants do anything to your kidneys? How did you cope with knowing you were just going to end up diabetic again?
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