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Thread: dka + high bs + alcohol = misdiagnosed?

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#24 (permalink)

08-22-2008, 04:11 PM

lilituc

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I am a: Type 1.5

Join Date: Jun 2006

Location: Bellevue, WA

Posts: 705

Diabetes can be the result of chronic drinking - longterm alcohol can cause pancreatitis. This kind of diabetes isn't really Type 1 or Type 2. It's diabetes due to pancreatitis.

That said, if you had pancreatitis, you would have many more problems going on than just the diabetes.

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