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12 years ago I was diagnosed as T2. Over the years I have taken Mets and insulin. My friend a nurse insists if I take insulin I must be T1. What do you think?
 
lynbrown said:
12 years ago I was diagnosed as T2. Over the years I have taken Mets and insulin. My friend a nurse insists if I take insulin I must be T1. What do you think?
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Then your friend must have been sleeping through med-class. I'm not a nurse, but I can tell you that your friend are completely wrong.
Type 1 diabetic only means your beta-cells have shutted down because of an autoimmune respons (attack). Type 2 diabetic are caused because of insulin resistance, this resistance can over time results in beta-cell exhaustion or burn-out. A type 1 must use insulin treatment to survive, but a type 2 diabetic can lose beta-cells over the years, meaning insulin treatment would be necressary. Even a type 2 diabetic can end up as totally insulin dependent like type 1.
Main difference between type 1 and 2 are how the disease progress. Your friend have completely misunderstood diabetes if he/she thinks insulin treatment equals type 1.
If you had diabetes for 12 years and regulate it with some insulin and mets then you can't be type 1. Since a type 1 diabetic would most likely have been completely insulin dependent in the moment of diagnosis.
 
Your nurse friend is wrong. How your diabetes is treated does not determine what type of diabetes you have. It is perfectly possible to be an insulin dependent type 2. Type 2 diabetes does not "progress to type 1". Type 1 is an autoimmune disease. You can have tests to see if you have the antibodies associated with type 1 if there is a query over your diabetic status.
 
My daughter is 25, type 2, and has been on insulin for about 7 years. She will always be type 2, it has absolutely nothing to do with taking insulin and I'm afraid to say, your nurse friend is totally wrong. Think she needs to pick up a textbook or two to educate herself!
 
Based souly on the evidence you take insulin.? Nursie has the world pegged out as flat....


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