diabetes type 1

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Q: How do I get sponsors to be the youngest runner to cross America and support the cause for diabetes type 1?
I am 14 and I am training to be able to run all the way across the continental US in hopes to set a record and at the same time be able to raise much needed money for the research and hope for a cure for type 1 diabetes, which I have and is on the rise, rapidly. I don’t know where to begin to get this cause started and actually make it worth something. I am hoping for huge contributions to this cause. How should I begin?

A: I love your enthusiasm. Never let diabetes stop you from doing anything !!

Good luck.

Q: How can people give themselves diabetes type 1?
Hi I know diabetes type 1 is not genetic or contagious but I was wondering if pancreatis could give you diabetes or anything else such as giving your body to much sugar so the insulin cannot keep up and works so vigorously, the beta cells get worn out. Any help would be appreciated! I was just curious!

A: Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, meaning that the body is attacking itself. In this case, the body is destroying its own beta cells, which are the cells that help produce insulin. It usually develops in younger people, usually under the age of 15 or 20. You can’t give yourself type 1 diabetes, and you can’t do anything to avoid getting it.

People can increase their chances of developing type 2 by not exercising, having bad eating habits, or taking certain prescription medications like the steroid Prednisone for long periods of time. Untreated pancreatitis can also increase the chances of developing type 2, and in some cases, directly cause its onset.

There’s a theory floating around that giving yourself just a little bit of insulin everyday for a long period of time can cause your body to slowly stop producing its own and become dependent on the outside source. This could cause diabetes, but it’s only an idea as far as I know. No one in their right mind would be dumb enough to test it because too much insulin is dangerous, low blood sugar sucks, and there’s no guide as to the “safe” level for outside insulin in non diabetics.

Hope this at least partly satisfied your curiosity!

Q: Is it impossible to lose weight with diabetes type 1?
I’m so disappointed in myself. I haven’t been in total control of my diabetes and have been eating pretty crappy lately. Well, I just weighed myself and haven’t in about a little over a month and just found out a gained close to 10 pounds, when I already had 25 to lose!!! I’m almost in tears at the thought of weighing what I do right now forever. Is it possible to just eat healthy and excersize and lose weight like a normal person even though I have diabetes type 1?

A: I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been type 1 since I was 1 year old. All of my life my motto has been ‘it’s the quality of life not quantity’. I’m 38, have had very mild complications, a rough pregnancy and have never been a model diabetic. I enjoy food, especially carbs, and a beer. My a1c is typically a 7. It took me a very long time, 10+years, to loose the pregnancy weight but I’m now 114lbs. I do take lots of vitamins and try to work out at least 3 times a week. I’m a true believer in small portions of any crappy foods. It satisfies my craving and makes me happy too. Six small meals a day helped with the weight too.
You may also want to get your thyroid checked. It is common for type 1 diabetics to develop an under active thyroid. The blood test is called a THS.
Good luck in your search for answers.

Q: How does diabetes type 1 affect you Physically, emotionally, intellectual and socially?
How does type 1 diabetes affect you

Physical:

Intellectual:

Emotional:

Social:

Thank you in advance!
Its for coursework btw

A: Physically: My thighs hurt from the shot I get at night that stings. Sometimes a shot won’t go in right, or I get a bleeder. My fingers are covered in calluses and sometimes are really painful. Measuring out my food helps me take control of my serving sizes and stops me from eating chips on the couch for an entire day. I won’t be overweight anytime soon.

Intellectually: I had never learned about diabetes before. I thought you got it from eating too much sugar and being fat. I thought you never had a low blood sugar when you had diabetes, and if you did, it was gone. Then, I spent three days in the hospital getting diagnosed. Those days have changed my life forever. I am a lot smarter. I know a lot more about diabetes (everything!).

Emotionally: I cry a lot for everything. I cry for the pain. I cry because I know it won’t ever end. I cry because I know that if it ever does end, it’ll probably end in surgery. I cry because I know I have lost years from my life. I cry because I know if I have this for the rest of my life, my nerves will be less. My kidneys will suffer, my eyes will suffer, my skin will suffer, my extremities will suffer. I cry because it could result in amputation. I cry because I know many others are crying.

Social: I meet other friends with diabetes, sometimes. www.tudiabetes.com helps me with that a lot. But sometimes people don’t approach me because of how I might be contagious (which I, and everyone who has diabetes, am not!). People think I am weird, sickly, strange. I am not. I am a normal person with a disease. A hidden disease.

Q: Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2 treated by decreasing hepatic gluconeogenesis?
If there is a drug that decreases hepatic gluconeogenesis, would it only help with patients with Diabetes Type 2? Or would it also help with paients with Type 1 diabetes? If so or so not, can you explain how? I know Type 2 can be helped with this, but I’m not sure about Type 1. Thanks

A: If a type 1 suffers from ‘dawn phenomenon’ It just might help. Your liver dumps glucose into your body in the morning so you have energy to ‘hunt’ for food. In type 1’s, there is no insulin to metabolize the blood sugars.

I don’t believe that any doctor would prescribe this type of treatment. I am not sue if there is a drug that will be short acting enough to prevent causing problems.

Of course, I am not a doctor.

Q: Can you join the army or any armed force when you have diabetes type 1?
I have diabetes type 1 and i’ve considered the army or national reserve as a way to pay for college but im not certain if i can i have diabetes type 2. Can anyone help me, preferably retired or active soldiers but all are welcome to answer.

A: No you can’t join any branch.

Current or history of diabetes mellitus (250) is disqualifying.

Q: I am 27 and have a mental illness and diabetes ( type 1)do i qualify for social security benefits?
I am 27 and have a mental illness and diabetes ( type 1)do i qualify for social security benefits. It impedes me from working even though I finished college my symptoms keep progressing with the hyper anxiety. I dont have medical insurance and keep seeing these people with free medicine and such how do I get the same help in Los Angeles County???

A: I’m going to give you my standard answer to this question that I wrote up:

You should contact your county social services offices and see what help may be available. I know in my area, a guy needed SSI, and a local church plus general welfare helped pay his bills until the social workers could get his SSI paperwork thru. He has schizophrenia or something, I’m not sure (don’t like him, so I don’t ask.) The mental health problem has to be very severe, or if you have another condition like low vision or hearing loss, the two disabilities together may be very severe. You have to be unable to work at ANY job where you could earn about $800 a month or more. So if you can flip burgers, you don’t qualify. Not being able to work consistently is where many disabilities fit in. It’s not realistic to hold a job if you will miss work 50 days a year, obviously. Some states have a program you pay into while you work that will pay for short term disability (that’s what it’s called, there is short term and long term disability). I know California had that, I used that program. I am pretty sure that Massachusetts does too. You can look at pay stubs and see if there is some state plan you have been paying into. Your employer may have been offering short term and long term disability. Long term disability covers mental illnesses only 2 years, usually (discrimination) but that will get you over to SSI/SSA. In CA and Arkansas, the more genetically based mental illnesses may be covered the same as any other illness tho.

Get the book “Social Security Disability” from Nolo Press, at nolo.com, or see if you can get it at your library (maybe even through an interlibrary loan?) It will give you a lot of background on how to apply, what criteria are used, and how to fill out the forms.

You have to be profoundly disabled to get disability, and if you are relatively young and educated, it will be harder. But if you really can’t hold down a job, and you can document that, you should get it eventually. You will almost certainly be rejected the first time, and the process takes awhile, so somehow you have to manage your finances in the meantime.

Keep in mind that once you go on disability, you will never get off of it, no one does. You will be in poverty the rest of your life unless you marry out of it or a miracle cures you. The ways the rules are make you dependent on the system, so keep that in mind when you are deciding if you want to do this. A lot of people have no choice, because they can’t work at all, or they can’t keep a job with insurance to get their pills. but it’s still humiliating in America to have no job-people always ask when you are being introduced,”Oh hello, what do YOU do for a living?” which ends up being a very nosy question without meaning to. If you can get supportive help from social services (in my state, they will pay for support groups and a social worker to visit and help with paperwork) or tweak your meds some more, or from a local consumer group (google the words consumer, mental, and your state. Consumer=person getting mental health services) then maybe you won’t have to go on disability.

I’m on SSA myself, and need the Medicare, so I’m not being judgmental, I just want you to know what you’re getting into. For me, there was no other way. I know a lot of people in the same boat. **Get the book I recommended, it will give you all the legal and inside information to see if you qualify.**

All the best to you! I hope you feel better soon!

Q: How does a doctor differentiate between type 1 diabetes and type 2…?
Also, are fasting blood sugar levels an accurate diagnostic test because i heard people with diabetes type 1 can have normal blood sugar levels from fasting but not after eating… is that true?
I know type 1 makes no insulin and type 2 makes little insulin but how does a doctor know? Are blood sugar levels higher in type 1 then in type 2? Is there a blood test to determine it?

A: the only real way a doctor can tell the difference, is if he runs a blood test to see if there are any ANTIBODIES present. If there are antibodies then you are type 1 diabetic because that means your immune system is killing your insulin producing cells with the antibodies. Type 2 diabetics do not have any anti-bodies which means they still produce insulin. OH and a person can have normal fasting blood sugars if that person already had insulin in him (like if he is a type 1 diabetic and still has long-acting insulin in him from the night before).

Q: Does anyone else out there live with a spouse who has diabetes type 1, and have to deal with their mood swings?
My husband has diabetes type 1 and when his blood sugar is too low or way too high he gets angry even at stupid little things. He ends up complaining alot and blamming me for things I didn’t do. Later he acts like I started it all in the first place. Sometimes he says he’s sorry. How do you cope with mood swings when you are the spouse?

A: My sister has type one diabetes, and has had it since she was an infant. I have had to deal with her mood swings when she is having a high/low BG. This is normal activity for when they have these kinds of low or high bloodsugars. Diabetics may become irritable or fussy when they have these bloodsugars because of the unnatural levels. When this happens, you simply wait until this is over, making sure they have been treated for their bloodsugar with insulin if they have a high bloodsugar, and carbohydrates if they have a low bloodsugar.

Q: What happens when you get Diabetes Type 1?
Is 1 when you just can’t eat to much sugar, or is that 2.

How does diabetes 1 affect your life?

A: Type 1 diabetes happens when your body attacks your pancreas. The pancreas is an organ just under your stomach. In type1 diabetics, the body sees this organ (somehow) as a foreign body and it attacks and kills it. The pancreas makes insulin, which your muscles and other tissues need to convert sugar to energy, so if you’re a type 1 you need to take insulin. You need to inject insulin, but they’re working on insulin nasal spray!

Type 2 is different. Your pancreas is fine, you have enough insulin, but your tissues are insulin resistant. The result is very similar–sugar builds up in the blood and causes ‘complications’ like blindness, circulatory problems, kidney failure, etc. In both types you have to be careful what you eat, and to monitor your blood sugar levels.

If you have either kind of diabetes and you take care of yourself–watch your diet, do your meds, get some exercise (very important), you will live a normal life, pretty much. There are foods you have to stay away from, not just sugar but all kinds of carbohydrates. You can eat ‘a little’ of anything, it’s not like allergies, but you have to really watch it. With type 1 you have to calculate the correct dosage of insulin for what you are eating.

If you -don’t- take care of it, you can get into trouble. Well, even if you are careful you can get into trouble. Diabetes is the biggest cause of blindness in the US, the biggest cause of amputations (from gangrene caused by damaged circulation) and of kidney failure. It also causes atherosclerosis (‘hardening of the arteries’).

I am a type 2 diabetic, and I feel just great most of the time. I just have to watch what I eat, and get some exercise.

Q: If someone want to get diabetes type 1, how do they go about this?
Not saying that I want to get type 1 diabetes but hypothetically if someone wanted to get type 1 diabetes, how would they go about getting it?

A: It’s not possible to induce T1 diabetes. It is autoimunne disease, which means that you can neither predict it’s onset time, stop it, induce it, or cure it.

Q: Is it possible to have diabetes type 1 but not losing wieght?
Is it possible to have diabetes type 1 but not losing wieght because i have all the other symptoms but im not lossing any wieght

A: Type 1 diabetes is usually in childhood and type 2 usually develops in adulthood. Having diabetes alone does not cause weight loss. You can gain or loose or stay the same depending on your medication and diet and activity. You should see a Doctor ASAP if you suspect diabetes.

I am more concerned that you are focusing on the weight loss idea. Dieting too much whether you are diabetic or not is not healthy. If you are diabetic, not eating right could cause serious health issues or even death. Your health is far more important than worrying about being a small size.

Q: Whats the difference between type 1 diabetes and type 2?
Hi everyone.
My boss just found out her 16 year old daughter has type 1 diabetes. We were all very sad to hear the news. Apparently she will be taking medication everyday for the rest of her life and she has a strict diet to follow. What’s the difference between type 1 and type 2? Also, do people with diabetes have a tendency to be thin and lose a lot of weight because of their diet? Apparently before she was diagnosed, she lost 10 pounds within a month.

Thanks!

A: Type one is usually diagnosed early in life, from birth to around the age of 30. There are many theories on why and what happens to the pancreas in type 1. It is thought to be a viruse that attacks it at some point. There are more cases of type 1 in states that have cold weather. These people are always insulin dependent and must inject insulin sometimes up to 6 times a day. The pancreas does not make any (or very little) insulin. In type 2, it is usually diagnosed after the age of 35, but can develop earlier. With this type there are 2 things that can happen. The pancreas can be making lots of insulin but the body is not using it correctly (this is insulin resistance) or the pancreas is not making enough insulin. People with type 2 usually have to take some type or oral meds, but some take insulin, and some take both. There are some type 2’s that can control their disease with diet and exercise for many years. Both types of diabetes can be genetic. Both types are caused by malfunctions of the pancreas and are not caused by the wrong diet, or being overweight. Both types of diabetics need to get daily exercise and watch their diets.

Q: what if a type 1 diabetes stayed 2 days without eating?
i’m saying IF , what if someone who got diabetes type 1 stayed without eating anything , only drinking water
and if he is not taking his shots too
what’s gonna happen to him because of not eating ?

A: If he’s not eating, he’ll become hypoglycemic quickly. A sugar of less than 65 is risky for a coma, and death is around the corner.

He’s also at risk for diabetic ketoacidosis, which many people only equate with too MUCH (untreated) sugar. But a starving body and an absence of insulin is a recipe for DKA: Basically, when the body thinks it’s starving, it tries to help. It breaks down organs to stay alive. If yo’ure not eating, not making (or taking) insulin, vomiting or diarrhea, your body thinks it’s starving. It takes intense insulin therapy and an inpatient hospital stay to reverse DKA. Two days of not eating or taking insulin is dangerous for anybody, but more so for a person that doesn’t make their own insulin.

Anyone can develop ketoacidosis, not just diabetics. Anorexia or a really bad flu are examples of a non-diabetic at risk for ketoacidosis. It yields feelings of nausea, unexplainable sleepiness, labored breathing and projectile vomiting. A urine or blood test confirms ketoacidosis. A coma follows (if untreated), and death is imminent.

Q: I read an interesting article written by a Dr. and addressed to Congress concerning Type 1 diabetes?
and Immunization shots the facts he pointed out of the incidents was amazing! I would highly recommend reading his article although I have to find it and also….Go to the Nation Vaccination Website and if you have been diagnosed with Diabetes type 1 after a vaccination then you can report it up to 3 years from the date and get I think it was…350k for paying for your grief and troubles in relation to the disease…What do you think? Too bad I didn’t discover this until it was too late…
http://www.909shot.com/Diseases/hcdiabetes.htm
here is the link to the article the Dr’s name is Harris Coulter, Ph.D.

President, Center for Empirical Medicine

A: It really is amazing how many things show that immunization is really bad for you. And yet the medical community and the pharmaceutical companies still insist its safe.
Personally I think it makes them so much money they won’t give it up. Also if they give us immunization which gives us more medical issues it keeps making them money.

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