Cured?

[tony_acunar]

I think i am getting better and better every day, its been like 5 months since i was diagnosed, i had the STRICTEST diet.. following it, i was on insulin first, then i got off it, on pills, then my panceas started producing insulin and nowww, i am getting LOW BS just taking pillsss oh yeah.. todaay i ate 1 FIELDs CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE as my snack like at 9:30 and at 11 i was at 75 ohh yes yes yes my pancreas regenerating?

[RBmumsie]

I do not believe your pancreas can regenerate (?) - but maybe you didn't need to be on insulin. I was able to control my blood sugar for years by diet alone. I don't know about "cured", but you might have a postponement or interlude. I'd be thrilled, too!

[camjen1]

I also think that you didn't need the insulin but I'm glad that you are feeling better. :biggrin:

[Starlight]

If your type 2, then i'd sure say its a possibility as when your type two your still producing insulin. If you disciplined your body in a way which it became much more efficient than it was, i find it easy to believe, If your T1, i dont think so. T1 is usually associated with the killing of the cells by the mistake of the immune system so i dont think that strict excercise and diet would fix that. But i pressume your T2 right?

[tony_acunar]

my endo says im a type 1 and that my pancreas was only 40% left.. it was almost all destroyed, but i no longer had the ANTi-GAD antibodies that destroy the pancreas. weird

[Cinnabon]

Glad you are feeling so good!
I think you are doing a great job at perserving the cells in your pancreas that still work. Are you T2?

[notme]

I have a friend that is type one and has a small part of her pancreas still functioning. When she was first diagnosed, her pancreas had about 10% function which has decreased to 3% function in the past three years. She still does better with her numbers than I do because of that small function to her pancreas.

Congratulations! I hope you continue to feel well and you keep some function of your pancreas. I am jealous! :shakehand

[RBmumsie]

I was thinking this over and - who am I to say? You've been given a blessing that most of us would envy. Enjoy it!

[am1977]

I don't want to rain on your parade(feel free to throw tomatos :tomato: ) , Tony, but I think it's best to veer on the side of caution in this situation. I can see how not needing insuln or meds is possible for a type 2 who eats an extremely healthy diet and who exercises regularly. However, if you were diagonesed as Type 1, the probability of you never needing insulin again is very, very slim. Type 1s are insulin dependent...we cannot live w/o administering insulin, via injection, to ourselves :nurse:. Eventually, a type 1 will go into DKA, a coma, and die. :eek:

I don't know how to explain what is going on :dontknow:. It could be that you are still honeymooning and there might be a bit more insulin being produced, but I think usually this does come to an end and you will need to start back up on insulin eventually. I don't know if you have spoken to your medical doctor about this :call:, but I would not make any drastic changes w/o discussing things with him or her. I've heard other peoples' expereiences where they wanted to stop or didn't think that they needed to take insulin during the honeymoon period, but the advice given them was that it was not recommended :thumpdown:. They found that the people who stopped insulin eventually did need it again and when they did, their diabetes was even harder to control :eviltongu .

I think it would be truly awesome if you were one of the few, but lucky, who never have to return to insulin injections again in life. I would be very happy for you :marchmell . I certainly hope that's the case, but I think we do have to be realistic and careful as well :albertein .

I hope you will keep us posted. Take care of yourself ;) !

[Amanda_Jo22]

Tony, when I was first dx'd w/diabetes, they thought I was a T2 (age 16, 90 lbs, no family history and all) b/c at the time my c-peptide wasn't low and I had no anti-GAD antibodies. Now, 5 years later, I have no insulin production and am a true T1. It took me 3.5 years to get to that point after diagnosis. It's possible that you may be in the same boat as I was. I just want to warn you to be careful about the insulin. I went off of it for a year (thinking I was gonna be ok...I was in denial) and got very sick, had an A1C of 15.9 at the end of it in DKA b/c my islet cells had slowly died off. You are probably in a long honeymoon stage like I was...enjoy it while it lasts! (but be careful).

[tony_acunar]

**** it, i hope i can honey moon until they sell those insulin inhailers ohh please!!or maybe.. NO honey moon an d just good luck **** it dman it **** itttttttttttttttttttttttttttt i just want to be normal

[LonghornLady]

Tony, you are normal! Have you not read these boards?

If it makes you feel better, think of it this way, being diabetic makes you no different than allergy sufferers who take shots or pills. Their immune systems don't deal with pollen too well, ours don't deal with sugar too well, and if we don't stay on top of it, there's the long term issues. I can tell you my father in law lived well into his 70's without a single diabetic complication.

[LauRa Lu]

I thought I'd just post this that I found. I was trying to find out about the honey moon period and this seems to fit with what you've described.

Often, there is a honeymoon or grace period that may occur a short time after the onset of diabetes. It commonly starts within two to eight weeks, although not all people have this honeymoon period. During the honeymoon, sugar production is turned off in the liver and a fair bit of insulin is still being made in the islet cells in the pancreas. This is a time when people often think they don’t have diabetes. They may be attracted to miracle cures. The honeymoon period may last a few weeks to a few years. During this time, the body may not need much extra insulin. After this period, the body will again need more insulin, although small amounts of insulin may still be made by some. We advise our patients to continue their morning insulin during the grace period, even though they may not need the evening dose. We know from experience that the body will again need more insulin. Usually with growth, illness or stress there may be a need for more insulin. This need may be evident when the morning blood sugars start to be above the desired range

You aint cured I'm afraid :thumpdown
Enjoy it while it lasts though :eating: