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View Poll Results: What type are you? | |
Type 1
|   | 109 | 48.23% | |
Type 2
|   | 91 | 40.27% | |
Type 1.5
|   | 20 | 8.85% | |
Pre-diabetes
|   | 6 | 2.65% |  | | 
04-24-2008, 10:40 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Posts: 151
| | | What type are you? Just to get a feel for what the percentages are with the DF users... | 
04-24-2008, 10:41 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 5,314
| | | Type-2 diagnosed 8/31/06.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Low carb dieter, taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3 | 
04-24-2008, 10:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,441
| | Type 1 for 19 years.  | 
04-24-2008, 10:51 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germantown, Maryland
Posts: 364
| | | Type 2. Diagnosed 2 years ago.
__________________ ___________________ 
Metformin ER - 500 mg 2x/day
Byetta - 5 mcg 2x/day
Avapro - 75 mg/day
Lipitor - 10 mg/day
Aspirin 81 mg - 2x/day | 
04-24-2008, 10:56 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 602
| | Me two, too... diagnosed 5 years agoo 
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008. "...type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity... [so] most people assume that the excess weight causes the diabetes. But... it's possible that diabetes causes obesity" "One of the causes of your diabetes is a poor choice of ancestors." - Gretchen Becker - The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed | 
04-24-2008, 11:23 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 1,081
| | | Diagnosed Type II on 26th November 2007
They haven't cottoned on to the fact that I'm a little mad too ...
__________________ Join the photo D-Day fun in memory of Easytype2 (Jack): http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/...t-our-own.html
"Fortitudine Vincimus - By endurance we conquer." - Ernest Shackleton (Family Motto)
Diagnosed Type II on 26th November 2007
Metformin 500mg twice daily
Enap 5mg
Initial A1c (14th Dec07): 11.6%
15th Jan'08: 9% 
3rd March'08 6.8% | 
04-24-2008, 02:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: BC, Canada
Posts: 57
| | Type 1-20 years. 
__________________ Type 1 since 1988 = 20 years.
Pump (Minimed Paradigm 522) started= April 14, 2008.
Basal Rate @ 0.90/Hr. using Novo Rapid. Testing with Bayer Contour Link.
HBA1C
April 2008= 7.5% (A1C before Pumping). | 
04-24-2008, 04:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 5,516
| | Type one 21 years. 
__________________ Nancy Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR | 
04-24-2008, 04:35 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 1,607
| | | Type 1 for 30 years.
__________________
In my humble opinion
Type1 since 1977
MDI using Lantus, Protophane, Novorapid and Actrapid
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04-24-2008, 05:08 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SE Michigan
Posts: 151
| | | Type 1 since 1964.
__________________
Liz from Michigan
dxed 6/64 - pumping with Animas 1250 since 11/09/06 and using Dexcom7 since 2/15/08
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04-24-2008, 05:36 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Derby,UK
Posts: 386
| | | t-1 for 25 yrs oct '82 and still getting it wrong lol | 
04-24-2008, 06:06 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: california
Posts: 396
| | | type 2 diagnosed may 2007 | 
04-24-2008, 06:28 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,231
| | A life sentence of Glucose control.
__________________ We inject to stay alive!!! So that i can enjoy what you enjoy!!!  Peter... Insulins Novorapid and Levemir. 
So I am well armed to enjoy food of any kind!!! | 
04-24-2008, 07:08 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Livonia, MI
Posts: 447
| | | T1, DXed 1/20/88
__________________ <scott>
<T1 for 20 years - Clear Paradigm 722 w/ CGMS>
<4.23.08 A1C --> 6.2>
<1.23.08 A1C --> 6.5> | 
04-24-2008, 08:22 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North-Central Indiana
Posts: 3,642
| | | T1 and I just turned 9.
__________________ ~Sandi~ Pumping for almost 6 years
MM Purple 722 with Humalog
Symlin Just because I've been on df for a whole day doesn't mean I'm ADDICTED... my chair is just COMFY... |  | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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