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06-23-2007, 10:24 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 113
| | | What would you do..
If you was in the middle of nowhere and you had no food and didnt have your insulin with you |
06-23-2007, 11:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,059
| | | Find a way to get back somewhere where there was insulin and food. You can go for a few days, even maybe a couple of weeks without insulin. You won't feel good, but you can temporarily put up with it. |
06-23-2007, 02:56 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 599
| | I think the key question at that point is do you have water? Now about that food - if you are a type 1 and have no insulin, do not eat food. You can survive without eating for a few days. Not so much without insulin.
I tried doing without insulin once over a weekend by eating very low carb - didn't work so well.  Ended up in the hospital with DKA.
cheers,
j
__________________ The above is my personal opinion, and Your Mileage May Vary.  - May 2 1995 - "D" Day
- Feb 22 2006 - Animas 1250 (Silver)
- May 11 2007 - Guardian REAL-Time CGMS (MiniLink)
- May 16 2007 - Animas 2020 (Silver)
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06-23-2007, 07:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,667
| | | Pray for someone to rescue me... barring that, use all of the survivalist skills I have to make it back to civilization before I die of starvation or DKA. |
06-23-2007, 07:49 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England
Posts: 413
| | | eat very low carb and drink plenty of water, i still have some of my own insulin production so i'd be allright for quite a while, i wouldn't go into DKA.
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type: MODY 3
diagnosed: feb 2000
using: lantus and novorapid
last Hba1c: 5.7% July 2007
previous HbA1c:5.6% April 2007
previous HbA1c: 6.2% Febuary 2007
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06-23-2007, 07:52 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,601
| | | I honestly hate threads like this. Any person is pretty much screwed in the above situation, and any type 1 diabetic is very screwed. There's really no other answer. So what's the point of this? Do you fear ever being in this situation and want to know what to do in it? Or is it more about rubbing our dependence in our faces? |
06-23-2007, 07:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,300
| | | I would search for a pig and start producing some R insulin. I have no idea how I'd start doing that, but I'd try.
If that didn't work, then I'd search for some dolphins in the ocean and let them lead me to other humans.
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●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
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~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
06-24-2007, 08:10 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK
Posts: 821
| | Use my cell/mobile phone and asked for a lift. 
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Sue
Pumping using bovine insulin. (Pump kindly donated by Solox)
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06-24-2007, 09:01 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,601
| | | Smoke signal! |
06-24-2007, 11:34 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The mighty shire. England
Posts: 1,225
| | | I'd light a fire, and go hunting for meat.
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