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Georgia
11-30-2005, 06:50 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4483262.stm
am1977
11-30-2005, 07:44 AM
This sounds promising :top:...but if I am understandning things right, this treatment would really only be useful to people with LADA or type 1.5? I don't think that would be me...I was dx'ed with T1 @ age 24.
rzrbks
11-30-2005, 08:10 AM
After just a month, she is now free of the injections that she started when she was 16.

"Instead of having to do the injections and feel a bit like a pin-cushion, I have one tablet in the morning and then just before tea. It's much better," she said.


Professor Hattersley wants to produce better treatments
Normally, those with Type 1 diabetes, like Tracey, develop it at an early age and require regular injections because their bodies have stopped producing insulin.


This Could apply to you as well as to me. Just depends on how your "version" is manifesting itself.

I'd be willing to give it a go, if Ins covered it. But if it's another one of those $50 a tablet medicines----------I'll stick with sticking myself.
Georgia
11-30-2005, 08:37 AM
I was diagnosed with type 1 in the 80s. Think I'll have a chat about it to my doctor when I go see him in December.

:)
Funnygrl
11-30-2005, 12:43 PM
I suspect what the article refers to is MODY, which is onset at a younger age, like 16 in the article.

LADA and plain old Type 1 A are both autoimmune diseases, whereas MODY isn't. MODY is also genetic, and the article mentioned it being a monogenetic version.

Autoimmune means dead, not sleeping like the article said. There is no way type 1s or LADAs are getting off insulin. I am almost positive the "new type" in the article is MODY.
rzrbks
11-30-2005, 03:42 PM
Autoimmune means dead, not sleeping like the article said. There is no way type 1s or LADAs are getting off insulin.


Well Thank You for the Happy News--------:T


j/k
Funnygrl
11-30-2005, 07:00 PM
Lol, no use living in a dream world. I should have said, "No way are they getting off insulin till there is a different cure"
sydneya
12-01-2005, 08:51 AM
Lol, no use living in a dream world. I should have said, "No way are they getting off insulin till there is a different cure"

There you go. I don't believe in living in a dream world. But I believe in modern technology and I continue to give to the ADA for research. I need to feel hope within reason.