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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi, my husband was just diagnosed with type 1 last month at the age of 28 (positive for GAD and Zink-transporter but no IA2). They started him with high doses of insulin before every meal and a 12 unit before sleep. It's barely been a month and he isn't taking any in the morning, injects 6 for lunch and 6 or 5 for dinner, and 5-6 before sleep and falls into hypo often. He also works out almost every day. A very interesting thing happened yesterday- he had some pastry for lunch and chocolate for the first time since we found out (he wanted to see what happens). His bs went to 9.0, then 14 in the next couple of hours but then he went for a little workout and his bs 2.5 hours after measuring 14 came down to 3.8 by itself. How long have you had t1 and did you just start experiencing these symptoms with the workouts?
Hi, yes- it's long lasting but he already cut it down to 6 and for the last two days- to 5 units (last night I thought he had a little hypo so we might cut it even more). They prescribed 12 but from night one he was very uneasy, he was sweating and his BS levels in the morning were high.. Then we read an article that this might be a result from hypoglycemia during the night and that was exactly the case. One doctor told us he isn't making any insulin but that's not true. 80 % of type 1's do produce it. His BS wouldn't go down from 14 to 3.8 without it just like that Cases like Dan's and many others' prove that T1D is very unclear to doctors. I wonder how many other people recovered and their cases were left unreported.Hi there - Is the 12 units your husband takes before sleep his long acting insulin, as opposed to faster acting to deal with food?
I don't think there will ever be a cure for type 1. The pharmaceutical companies will never allow it. Way too much money to be made. I hope I am wrong
Well I am, I have the antibodies.
Did a google search once on curing type 1. Came up with details about and Indian treatment, using large doses of niacin, for young people who were still in 'honeymoon' period. Seemed that a fluke or parasite, that is treatable with this vitamin, was disrupting the pancreas function. Sadly, I have never been able to find that site again. Nor did it give details of long term follow up etc. Oh that I'd heard of it 30 years ago.
It could easily be in your lifetime. Already the parts of the genome implicated in monogenic diabetes are being identified and in some cases being treated without insulin injections. Researchers believe they are close enough to a break through in MODY to ask people to consider DNA diagnosis and about 90 genetic regions involved in T2D have already been identified. Exciting times that just need everyone to support researchers and keep an open mind. Oh and then there is this https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/201...iabetes-a-month-ago-but-how-is-this-possible/ so with reports like this maybe scientists can accumalate enough data to suggest ways to manage the complex gene involved in the faulty auto immune response in months. We can only hope.
Dan Darkes is on Faceache, so you can follow his progress thereI've just been reading about fasting in relation to regrowth of beta cells on mercola.articles.com. In my limited understanding it appears that the body does have ways and means to reproduce these cells. Anybody here doing fasting? I'm only doing peak fasting by having evening meal at 6pm and not eating before 11am. Not cured yet.