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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%
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Old 04-24-2008, 10:40 AM
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I am a: Type 1
 
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What type are you?

Just to get a feel for what the percentages are with the DF users...
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Old 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.
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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


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Old 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.
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Old 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.
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Byetta - 5 mcg 2x/day
Avapro - 75 mg/day
Lipitor - 10 mg/day
Aspirin 81 mg - 2x/day
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Old 04-24-2008, 10:56 AM
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I am a: Type 2
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 602
Me two, too... diagnosed 5 years agoo
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Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008.
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Old 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 ...
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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%
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Old 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.
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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).
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Old 04-24-2008, 04:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1
 
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Location: Northern California
Posts: 5,516
Type one 21 years.
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Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.

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Old 04-24-2008, 04:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 1,607
Type 1 for 30 years.
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Old 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.
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Old 04-24-2008, 05:36 PM
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I am a: Type 1
 
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Location: Derby,UK
Posts: 386
t-1 for 25 yrs oct '82 and still getting it wrong lol
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Old 04-24-2008, 06:06 PM
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type 2 diagnosed may 2007
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Old 04-24-2008, 06:28 PM
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I am a: Type 1
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,231
Unhappy A life sentence of Glucose control.

Type
1
Diagnosed in 1971 and so 37 years later and forever learning control.
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Old 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
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<4.23.08 A1C --> 6.2>
<1.23.08 A1C --> 6.5>
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Old 04-24-2008, 08:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North-Central Indiana
Posts: 3,642
T1 and I just turned 9.
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Just because I've been on df for a whole day doesn't mean I'm ADDICTED... my chair is just COMFY...
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