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Originally Posted by Mr Jensee

Obviously you are misinformed then. Type 2 diabetes is not just one diabetic malfunction. There can be insulin resistance, mine is. There there can be a dying off of insulin producing cells mine also is. There can be problem with the Liver processing glucose a problem I may be having as well. The immune system can attack the iselts of langerhands. The only thing that differentiates them is that Type one or Juvenile Onset diabetes is a total non functioning pancreas early in life. Type 2 more times than not will revert to total insulin dependence, it just develops later in life as mine did. Both of these versions of the disease (dysfunction) are progressive. the type 1 type 2 are used to differentiate if this was early onset, or adult later onset diabetes. Nothing more. Type one BTW is always insulin dependent. Type 2 will most likely progress to insulin dependency but that won't make it Type 1.

And if I could figure out the rationale of why my doctor's nurse practitioner put me on this stuff then I would probably not be in this fix. I plan to get documentation on what she was talking about when I speak to her Monday.

You are totally incorrect in all of your thinking. Age has NOTHING to do with type 1 or type 2. The old term Juvenile Diabetes is now 100% without a doubt called type 1. Adult onset is 100% wihtout a doubt called type 2. If you don't believe me then go to the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), ADA (American Diabetes Association), or IDF (International Diabetes Federation.) Those are the three largest diabetes organizations in the world.

Type 1 is caused by an autoimmune disease that attacks the islet cells. It can occur anytime in life, but it generally occurs in early childhood, but not always. There is no cure at all for type 1 and all type 1s WILL REQUIRE insulin. There is a surgical procedure going on a few places with islet cell transplants, however, the results are not very promising in terms of long term.

Type 2 is the one that is greatly on the rise and is many times preventable. This is what is setting a red flag off in every medical office across the country as more and more teenages develope type 2 by being overweight. It is not always sparked by weight, but generally most cases have some weight issues. Type 2 though is when the body has either a low production of insulin or the body has the inability to use the insulin produced (generally called insulin resistance.) Many times the islet cells will die off though as they are being overworked. If they are attempting to produce more insulin that they can, then they slowly die off faster than they replenish. THat is why sometimes type 2s are started on insulin (generally just a basal insulin like Lantus.) The insulin gives their islet cells a break from overworking and can prevent them from needing a bolus insulin (Novolog, etc.)

Therefore pal, I think you need to read up on diabetes.