Re: my first HbA1c test and my introduction

[Guest guest]

Kathy,

Sounds like you've found a REALLY good doc, whose standards are

towards the lower numbers (lower than the ADA's 7.0, that's for sure!)

Hold on tight to that one!

Congrats on doing so well so fast!

SulaBlue

My results were 6.2. He said at this lab non-diabetic numbers

> were 5.2-6.4 so mine being 6.2 was excellent. At the time I was

diagnosed

> he put me on Metformin 500mg once a day, a diet and told me to test at

> least 4 times a day before meals and at bedtime. I keep good records of

> this and when I go in take that for him to see. After the first

three weeks

> on the one Metformin he looked at my numbers and said I would

benefit from

> taking a second Metformin because my bg's would be good in the a.m.

then by

> dinnertime start gong up and often be up above 200 by bedtime. So now I

> take one 500mg Mstformin with breakfast and one with dinner and have

> noticed a change for the better in my readings.

<SNIP>

Well we no longer have that same Dr and the one now

> says test , test, and test some more. He will be going to this same

Dr in

> the next month so I told him to be prepared for him to say to get a

monitor

> and start testing.

> Later, Kathy

[Guest guest]

Gretchen wrote:

>Type 1 cannot be reversed at this time, and anyone who says it can is

>misleading people.

That statement itself is a bit misleading.

Type 1 can and is being cured (reversed?) via both pancreas transplants and

islet (of Langerhans) transplants, with successful islet transplants (via

cadaver donors) being done regularly (on T1 diabetic people) in my area at

the University of Wisconsin Hospital (with medical school attached). UW has

always been in the vanguard of diabetes treatment and research. Either

transplant requires lifelong anti-rejection drugs and neither transplant

protocol is " common " or available " on demand " but both exist. If the

transplant is successful, the Type 1 diabetes is cured . . . though much

more research, testing and experimentation are necessary before either type

of transplant becomes " mainstream " with assurances of regular success.

Other research/medical facilities are also involved in pancreas and/or

islet transplants and they do provide some hope for the future.

Put " islet transplant " or " islet transplant diabetes " (without quotes) in

either Google or SearchEdu.com (an education/academic site search engine)

to find more info.

Sandy

T1 - 1979

[Guest guest]

You're right; it's a definite pain and all the downside situations you

mention are true (and there are even lots more). That's the life and world

of a Type 1.

Sandy

T1 - 1979

Stacey wrote:

>Insulin offers good control, at times, but it has its downside - it does

>cramp style a bit, and it can be awkward to be an insulin using

>person. Plus,

>like today, I forgot my humalog pen at home so I'm here at my office

>without my

>insulin. Kind of limits what I had for lunch. Plus, if I take my lantus

>shots

>at a certain tim, I either have to be home or I have to pre fill a syringe

>and bring it. Plus I have to shoot humalog for basically every morsel of

>food I

>put in my mouth with the possible excpetion of cheese and sugar free jello.

>If I am at a party and want to nosh on some olives and nuts, I need to use

>some insulin. NOt as much as if I were eating chips and pizza, but I

>still need

>to use insulin, and frankly, it's annoying at times, and requires me to

>try to

>guess how much I " m going to eat and shoot accordingly. I'm glad I'm using

>it, but it's not easy.

[Guest guest]

I agree, Stacey, using insulin is a pain but also, I'm glad it's there and I can

use it.

I've never heard tell that insulin users can 'quit' using insulin. Au contraire,

actually, everything I've ever read and certainly experienced myself. I had to

go without insulin for two and a half days fairly recently and was very ill as a

result. I do not know how high my sugars spiked, as I have no way to test until

Friday (payday for hubby) but I am pretty sure they were really up there in the

stratospheric zone. I suffered some very debilitating symptoms as a result of

having no access to insulin. To say, flippantly, that " it's no big deal " tells

me that the poster has not A) walked in the shoes of an insulin injecter, or

B)stopped to consider what 'it's no big deal' might actually mean to someone who

injects insulin for their very life--quality and otherwise, and if someone were

to take that statement as permission to get off insulin. Very dangerous on all

counts, IMPO.

Bron

Type II in Florida