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Originally Posted by Mr Jensee  Yeah I am pretty sure. In type two diabetes, my diabetes the immune system attacks the islets of langerhans, the cells that produce insulin, slowly killing them off. By introducing insulin the body sees no reason to produce the insulin on its own. The cell destruction can intensify. The old adage, if you don't use it you lose it applies here as well. | What you just said right there is type 1 diabetes. Type 2 has nothing to do with an immune system killing off.
Also, I find it odd that you say type 2s can use Symlin without insulin and that nothing is wrong with your dosage yet it's not working for you and the company's website says to be used with insulin and that the max recommended dosage is 20 units.  Just puzzles me there.
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