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Serious question about diabetes?

I have a serious question about Diabetes, anyone willing to answer?

  • I've been type one diabetic since I was about 10 yrs old now and due to my observations I've realized that instead of my bloodsugar spiking while I'm sick(like most diabetics tend to), my bloodsugar drops uncontrollably and I can come off of insulin for the whole time I'm sick. I have read some of the research that had been done on type one diabetes and how they think it was caused.. it talks about how its usually caused by a virus getting into your system and as your body fights it off the anti-bodies attack your t-cells, which stop the process of making insulin. Since my bloodsugars DO drop, I've began to wonder if when I get sick (only virus infections to be specific) and my bloodsugar drops, it's because of the anti-bodies leaving my T-Cells due to a low white blood cell count and leaving them alone-- causing me to begin producing insulin again.. When I consulted my endocrinologists about it they just shook their head and brushed me off because I'm fourteen, and appearently everything I think MUST be nonsense. So please, tell me if I'm crazy, or do I really make sense with this?

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    Kate the thing is Dr's are not God and don't always have the answer or explanation for everything. My frustrations with Endocrinologists is they mostly base everything of "theory" and according to the general physiological workings of the body. I have never met a Endocrinologist that IS a diabetic them self and can fully understand the relationship between diabetes and each individual person. The thing is its your body and everyone has slightly different trends and responses. Yes it is very strange that your blood sugar reacts so severely that you have to stop taking insulin. It may have to do with how your body metabolizes the insulin you are putting into your body rather than actual random production by your pancreas. I know for me that if I am very active (exercising a lot) my sugars will consistently run low for a few days to where I have to alter my pump. The point is things happen in our bodies that increase or decrease our sensitivity to insulin. Who really knows what the explanation for your hypos during a virus are, but its your body and YOU can figure out how to compensate for it. As long as in the end your sugars stay balanced you will be fine. As a diabetic we are constantly balancing our bodies. Your Endo should take it seriously and even investigate it further with necessary blood work. Its very dangerous to have constant hypos and such high insulin sensitivity. He shouldn't shrug it off.

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In all of my 23 years of being Type 1, I have NEVER heard of someones pancreas "just out of the blue" being able to produce insulin again for ANY amount of time. Once the pancreas has stopped, it is just dormant. I bet you are going too low because you aren't eating & keeping hydrated, while being sick. The worst thing to do is to just stop taking the insulin & lay around without eating, you need nourishment to keep the body & cells functioning to where they can heal you & themselves. Taking any prescribed drugs helps, but without nourishment for the healthy cells that are dying, it's like trying to feed hay to a dead horse....it doesn't help the dead horse one bit, nor does it help the healthy cells that are trying to reproduce. The body keeps your glucose higher when sick, for a reason. Its so that when your stuck vomiting, or being sick for long periods of time, you don't run the risk of passing out or collapsing because you let your glucose level go too low. It is sort of a built-in safety net for your body, to keep sugar feeding your brain & body cells which they need to function. Your brain is your control center, and when it goes down from lack of glucose/sugar....that's all she rode.

ccchevydude

I don't know what Cardboard box this "endocrinologist" got his degree from but i suggest you find a new hospital and tell another doctor about your research.

Brad

Your doctors sound like unprofessional assholes to be honest. What you're saying makes perfect sense.

Hmm! My friend, type 1 for 43 years now and fighting Ovarian Cancer, found while the cancer was very active just before the chemo treatments to slow the cancer down, she didn't have to take very much insulin at all. The cancer gave off an insulin like hormone or something. She was able to eat mostly whatever whe wanted for about a year. Yeah! the doctors gave her 6 months to live and she has beaten the odds by about 2.5 years!! But is back in chemo treatments again!

Nana Lamb

Educate yourself and cure yourself for whatever disease you will ever have. Good nutrition will cure all.

Cougar

YOU know your body best. I don't care how much med school a doctor has, I know myself. Go to different doctors, you sound smart.

Katlady

go to the dr

David s

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