BlackEdelweiss wrote: » I think they cost about €140 if you want to buy one but you get them free when you do this course so it may be worth while looking into doing one. Everybody on my course is a type 1 though so I am not sure if they allow type 2's to do it. I dont see why not though if you are on insulin.
BlackEdelweiss wrote: » Would you believe I have forgotten the name of the course again, I am only home from it about an hour ago. The meter I got is the Accu-chek Aviva Expert - Bolus Advisor System. It is very impressive, you check your blood, enter the amount of carbs you are going to eat for your meal and include any snack you plan on having in the next few hours, add stress or exercise factors and the meter will tell you exactly how many units to inject. Your insulin carb ratio and insulin sensitivity have to be calculated by the diabetic nurse before you begin and these figures are entered into the meter on setup. You can also set time periods for when you may be more sensitive to insulin such as the morning like I seem to be and the meter will correct the dose for you. I have calculated my evening dose based on the carbs I will be eating and a fairly big bag of crisps to have later on and my insulin is going to be 1 unit less than I would usually use. We have been told we can basically eat whatever we want from now on, just count the carbs correctly and away we go. Obviously this is not a free ticket to eat crap, the usual health risks still apply with fatty foods etc but we can basically eat like non diabetics now. So the story goes anyway, I will have to see how it all fares out but it is meant to be very good at reducing hypos to an almost non existent level which will be life changing for me as I have so many of them. I'll post the name of the course when it pops back into my mind.
gerrybbadd wrote: » Is it possible for insulin dependent Type 2s to get an insulin pump? I'm forever asking about this in my clinic and can't get a straight answer.
johnkenn wrote: » I have just been diagnosis with T1 diabetes months ago and have been on insulin,but have been have frequent hypo before lunch which has been given me some concern so much. I have told the nurse and the stop me from take insulin before breakfast because they said maybe i am producing more insulin in the morning,but that did not help. My question is that is it possible they take me off insulin?
BlackEdelweiss wrote: » I know it is a different story for Type 1's as most have had it since childhood and missed out on lots of enjoyable things other kids and adults could enjoy but I think a cure for type 2 diabetes would just let all the people who work hard at living as healthy a lifestyle as possible slip back into all their old bad eating habits and ultimately lead them to an earlier grave than diabetes will bring them. As a Type 1.5/LADA diabetic only diagnosed 3 years ago I know that if a sudden cure came about I would drift, slowly at first but fairly soon I would be back on the fresh cream chocolate sundays in Tesco's, supersize portions and all the other crap I used to fill my mouth and stomach with. I hope to live longer with diabetes than I would have if I carried on with my previous lifestyle so I for one hope they dont find a cure.Not an outright cure anyway, maybe ease the effects it has on my body a bit. If they can find a cure for childrens Type 1 then go for it, I'm all behind that.
tbh wrote: » There's an interview with that doctor where she states that she's disappointed with the way that trial was reported and emphasises that bcg will not be a cure for diabetes. Its more to prove that long term type 1 can be suseptible to treatments. The trial was delayed so long because the drugs they wanted to use weren't approved and would have cost millions of dollars to approve, just to prove a point. BCG was an example of the drug they wanted to use - I'm paraphrasing here!! - but the doc was clearly stating that it wasn't a cure itself. I'll try to dig it out. Disappointing, but still has value I guess.
BCG's latest feat, though, is perhaps its most unexpected. Several years ago, Harvard professor Denise Faustman showed that BCG could be used to treat diabetes in mice. She demonstrated that the vaccine helped mice to produce a protein which kills off T-cells, which are responsible for type 1 diabetes. With bated breath, the scientific community waited while the same experiments were replicated in humans. What was at stake? A positive finding could mean that diabetes patients no longer had to inject themselves with insulin. Four years later, Fausmtan and her colleagues have published results from a very small-scale trial in PLoS One. Their work is limited and caveat-laden—the study looked at three patients for just 20 weeks—but the researchers observed the same protein production and T-cell death as they saw in mice. While it's not quite time for diabetes sufferers to pop the champagne corks and stop injecting insulin just yet, it's certainly a major finding that promises a great deal. Perplexingly, we don't even really know quite what makes BCG so successful. There are hypotheses that suggest that it activates a protein called the "tumor necrosis factor-alpha"—and the diabetes study lends some weight to that idea—but the research community isn't 100 percent sure yet. Put simply, though it seems to be helpful across many conditions, we don't yet know exactly why.
tbh wrote: » I do a lot of traveling with work, and frequently fly long haul. Diabetes is more common than you think, and all the security staff will know exactly what it is you're carrying - it won't be a problem. I don't even take my insulin out of my bag when going through security.
paddyk wrote: » Just recently got diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. While I have an awful lot of questions:D, My main one right now regards a Longish haul flight. I am Flying to USA on Tuesday. From the time I leave home till I arrive at my final destination will be 17 hours. Will my Accu Chek, Aviva Nano pass security in my hand luggage? Have you any advise for traveling?
CramCycle wrote: » ionce, stupidly, asked customs in America why they never stopped me with all my stuff, the girl just turned around and said, its OK we know what that stuff is. End of, will bite me in the ass one day but no one has ever asked but a letter from your doctor or nurse is all that is technically required.
Mincork wrote: » USA customs and security could be a bit uurrmm excessive , so I would double your meds and get a spare test meter and strips and pop one in carry on and the other in check in . ( that's what i do anyway )
