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British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin

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Re: British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin

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Post by delhanty »

alexee wrote: post #40
delhanty wrote: post #38

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Thank you - I will get the strips at least. Do you have a $ figure for "pretty spendy"? I really want to sort out the bouts of fatigue though, so in that sense I'm not that price sensitive.

You can order Free Style Libre (online), starter package for $200 or so (check their website). They probably don't ship to the US, as they're not approved there, so you'd have to use some mail forwarder.

Thank you! That might work for me - I could get it shipped to Japan or the UK.

Re: British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin

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Post by YooLi »

bluemax wrote: post #4

4 years ago I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in my early forties. The hospital staff showed me how to manage my glucose with long acting and fast acting insuline. As a programmer I'm good with numbers so everything was pretty much under control but I started noticing that I needed less and less insuline up to the point that I needed no insuline at all. This was about a year ago. At that same time I had some new p…

If the celiacs meant the carbs were less well converted to glucose and that's why your levels stayed normal, why not just eat less carbs now?

Re: British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin

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Post by terminalcommand »

delhanty wrote: post #41
alexee wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can order Free Style Libre (online), starter package for $200 or so (check their website). They probably don't ship to the US, as they're not approved there, so you'd have to use some mail forwarder.

Thank you! That might work for me - I could get it shipped to Japan or the UK.

Speaking as a T1D for nearly 10 years, instead of getting a glucometer, go to a lab and check your Hba1c levels.

The test is really cheap and is an indication of your glucose levels in the last 3 months. If that is over 7 mg/dl you're diabetic.

I sincerely hope you don't have T1D. Good luck.

Re: British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin

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Post by delhanty »

terminalcommand wrote: post #43
delhanty wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! That might work for me - I could get it shipped to Japan or the UK.

Speaking as a T1D for nearly 10 years, instead of getting a glucometer, go to a lab and check your Hba1c levels. The test is really cheap and is an indication of your glucose levels in the last 3 months. If that is over 7 mg/dl you're diabetic. I sincerely hope you don't have T1D. Good luck.

Thank you for the recommendation about Hba1c and also the "Good luck".

This blog post on Hyperlipid

https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2007/10/physiologica...

kind of relates to what you write: Hab1c is a more accurate indicator of diabetes than fasting glucose for someone on any form of carbohydrate restriction, which is me.

edit: s/that/than

Re: British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin

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Post by epmaybe »

zaroth wrote: post #16
epmaybe wrote: post #13

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Type 1.5 is adult onset autoimmune diabetes

That's a bit of an oversimplification. T1 is auto-immune -- the body loses the ability to produce insulin, and you can detect autoantibodies in the blood. T2 is insulin resistance, and generally has no autoimmune component and no autoantibodies present. Typically T1D comes on all at once; the autoantibodies destroy the insulin producing beta cells and the patient needs exogenous insulin starting immediately. A subset…

Thanks! I'm a little rough on my diabetes pathology/immunology, this was a good review :)
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