Re: Fwd: Type 1 and Type 2?

April 26, 2006

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> It's not so much that they don't know which, it's that they say I have

> both, I can't figure it out. Thanks for responding though, it is nice

> to talk to others who are dealing with this illness.

> Thanks,

Do you suppose that they are saying that the type 1 (of course) is because

you don't produce insulin and the type 2 is referring to the insulin

resistance?

I would suspect that with all of the people who have diabetes that there are

many who fit into various profiles. Recently there is what has been coined

'type 1.5'... I'm sure there are various points along both the type 1 and

type 2 scale that overlap, and this is where he is saying you have both.

Mike

April 26, 2006

The other thing is he hasn't really offered any other information or

said how the treatment should be adjusted, all he did was try me on

Symlin which apparently did not do anything at all even though I went

up to the max dose. I was really hoping it would help. Now I'm kind of

at a loss, I'm trying to exercise more, but it's hard feeling as bad as

I do and being alone trying to do it, and it starts out so high in the

morning,I spend half the day trying get it lower and I have been

unemployed for more than a year and that hasn't helped with my activity

level. (That's quite a run on sentence, but it's a good way of showing

how it feels) It's like a vicious cycle.

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