I KNOW YOU ARE OUT THERE!!! THIS FORUM REALLY NEEDS TO PICK UP...ANYONE HAVE ANY INPUT....ANYTHING.....HOW ARE YOU DOING.....HEAR OF ANYTHING NEW THAT COULD BE USEFUL TO SOMEONE ELSE....OR EVEN JUST CARE TO SHARE A BIT... I SURE WOULD LOVE IT IF MORE DIABETICS WOULD PARTAKE IN THIS FORUM.....I WOULD BE SO EXCITED!!!

Well my day was ok....could have been worse...could have been better! I did mess up when I was shopping and ate one...just one...of those easter cream eggs that are out.....but I had a good, well balanced dinner tonight! I ate untill I was comfortably full and I do not have the munchies tonight...I plan on having p.butter and crackers for a snack tonught to hold me over untill morning. Hope anyone else reading this had a good day!

Hi Dorrie,

I am not diabetic but I recently had a 2 hour glucose test and I was borderline glucose intolerant and insulin resistant.

Plus diabetes runs in my family so its time for me to get it together and start watching my weight, what I eat and time to exercise.

I recently started a low dose of metformin to help the insulin resistance.


Shelley

I'm not diabetic...

BUT...
My mom is...
My maternal Grandmother was...
My sister is hypoglycemic...

Does diabetes run in families??????


Guess I better watch my p's & q's.... whatever that means....hehe..



Abbie

Yup, this forum is not very active. I posted asking if anyone here had an insulin pump, hoping to get some feedback on other's experiences with one, and no one ever even replied. I just assumed that no one here has Type I, or the adult version of juvenile diabetes (which is known as Type 1.5 and is autoimmune in nature just like juvenile diabetes).

I have the adult version of juvenile diabetes and started using a pump about 8 months ago. It is the most awesome thing and has made the quality of my life so much better. I almost feel normal and my A1C's are finally dropping down to better levels.

Hopefully people here who are diabetic will start sharing their experiences. I know I sure could use some support!

Carolyn

Yes, diabetes runs in families and hypoglycemia is generally a pre-diabetic condition most often in relation to developing Type 1.5 diabetes. Type 1.5 is the adult version of juvenile diabetes and is autoimmune in nature. You can diagnose this form of diabetes up to 10 years before full blown development of active disease, by having your doctor draw Anti-Gad and C-Peptite tests. They are simple and relatively inexpensive blood tests that show the antibodies and also if your pancreas is making insulin. Type 1.5 is often misdiagnosed as Type 2 because it mimics many of Type 2 characteristics in the early stages and has only become better known for what it really is, as an autoimmune adult version of juvenile diabetes in recent years. It needs to be tx aggressively and people be given insulin much earlier to be effectively tx.

If you have MS, the likelihood of developing another one or more autoimmune illness is much greater.

Carolyn

Say Shelley, is that like being sort of pregnant? Truly, I mean no disrespect. I would think that if your glucose intolerant and insulin resistant that you are Type 2 diabetic, which would make sense that the doc put you on Metformin. Is your doc in denial or just wants to keep you in the shadows so as to not upset you?

Some old fashioned doctors are still trying to tell their patients that they are borderline. It really upsets me that they are not being totally up front with their patients, especially with an illness as serious as diabetes can be. There is no such thing as being borderline. You either are, or you are not diabetic. Type 2 is able to be controlled, and sometimes temporarily reversed to some degree, through diet and exercise. Medication can help this early process as well.

I hope your getting to see a nutritionist and diabetic educator as part of your health care team. You can always use all the help and guidance possible in dealing with diabetes.

Wishing you well always.

Carolyn

Shelley,

My doctor feels the same way.......He said there is no such thing as borderline you either are or you aren't. I see a nutritionist and diabetes educator and I have what is considered "controlled diabetes", for now anyway! I have bloodwork (an A1C) done every four months. Hopefully I can hold this up for quite some time! Good luck to you, it does become a way life...........Barb

Hi Barb and Carolyn,

Thanks for the insight!

Hmmm type 1.5 I have not heard of that. But I sure have other autoimmune issues...thyroid.

I really do need to change my ways and try to reverse atleast some of this.

So I started on the metformin how come the prescription did not come with instructions to know where every bathrrom is. I am supposed ot up the amount each week until I am up to four pills a day. Guess four pills a day is not borderline.

Great idea on the nutritionist. I think I will look into that. I also bought some supplements like Cinnamon and something with chromium in it.

Barb I am so glad you have it controlled and Carolyn happy to know your AC1 levels are dropping.

My last AC1 was 5.4. Thats still good right?

Carolyn I am sorry no one responded to your pump question

Hope to see you in this forum more often.

Ya know, I had never heard of it either until I started reading my diabetes specialists notes on my office visits with her ( she kept waffling over type 2 vs type 1.5 in the notes) and questioned her about what that meant. It has only been in recent years that any attention has been given to the adult version of juvinile diabetes. In fact, many doctors, even the diabetes doctors, are not very familiar with it. I was finally correctly diagnosed when I had the Anti-Gad and C-Peptide tests run to start the process of getting Medicare to pay for an insulin pump. I was injecting two types of insulins on average of 6 to 8 injections a day!!! It was not painful but life had to be so carefully planned every day around my eating and injection schedules. Now, with the pump, I can actually have some normalcy in my life.

If you Google "autoimmune diabetes type 1.5 adult onset" you can find some really interesting reading. A lot of diagnosed Type 2 diabetics are really not Type 2 at all and would benefit from earlier intervention and insulin tx. I so wish that I had been correctly diagnosed years earlier and had been able to go on the pump years ago instead of struggling with "brittle" diabetes for so long. One never feels good when your blood sugars are all over the place every day. Now I'm more level and steady and feeling so much better and energetic!

Your A1c at 5.4 is awesome! Mine was over 8 and I am struggling to get it down below 7. It's difficult because I make no natural insulin of my own!

Carolyn