The differences between T1 and T2.

21 June 2010
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I came across this article last week and it made me wonder why I’d never thought of putting such a chart together myself… would be sooooo useful when people start banging on about their grandmother or uncle who has ‘diabetes’ which turns out to by type 2!

Chart pasted below, but please refer to the original article for the full context.

Characteristics of Disease
Type 1
Type 2

Risk Factors

Very Different
Having a parent or sibling with type 1. Having another autoimmune condition. Environmental factors like stress or exposure to toxins. Possibly drinking cow’s milk in infancy.
Poor diet.…

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By Nic on 21 June 2010 at 10.11 am
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Islets in the stream.

20 July 2008
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I saw an article on Diabetes Health on the weekend saying that the National Institutes of Health (presumably a global organisation) will be funding 11 research centres in four countries (The United States, Canada, Sweden and Norway) to ‘look into ways to improve outcomes and lessen side effects from islet cell transplantations in type 1 diabetics’. (see the article here).

Exciting news – although I suspect some years before we at the coal face reap any of the benefits. Would you be willing to have surgery to have islet cells inserted if it meant you could be free of diabetes? I need to do more reading but I reckon I’d be willing to give it a crack.

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By Nic on 20 July 2008 at 6.24 pm
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.

10 July 2008
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Well the grand CGMS trial of July 2008 has come to an abrupt end. After a lot of beeping in the night, then a hard core RPM class (spinning by another name) this morning, I got my twist ties at the ready and prepared for the shower routine in the changing room – only to find that the insertion was 3/4 of the way out. I have to give the unit back to the hospital this afternoon anyway so pulled it all the way out.

The good news is I got up this morning (at 5.20am, ouch) with a BM of 8.9 which is actually pretty good for me (despite the nurse who scolded me on the phone when my…

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By Nic on 10 July 2008 at 7.55 am
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Nic 0, Diabetes 2.

9 July 2008
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Yup, night two of three of my CGMS has been and gone and the high morning blood sugars I have four days out of five are nowhere to be seen. Last night resulted in a 2.30am low (3.1) and a blood sugar of 3.8 on waking. Without the low I’d be very pleased with that night! I have one night left for the overnight highs to come back so we can see what’s going on. Strange to wish for it when I’ve spent the last few weeks wishing for the opposite. But I’m starting to look like the boy who cried wolf.

Aside from that, I’m finding I’m getting used to being attached to a machine. Even after two nights…

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By Nic on 9 July 2008 at 7.25 am
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Nic 0, Diabetes 1

8 July 2008
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Of course my first night with the monitor was completely untypical – my blood sugars dropped instead of rising. I suspected this would happen once I was wired up! Went down to low 2’s at 2.30 and got up and treated it. Was 8.5 when I left for the gym. Recently I’ve mainly been somewhere around 14 and 16. So hopefully I’ll capture these sorts of inexplicable high BMs overnight tonight so we have some data around what’s going on.

Sleeping with the monitor wasn’t tooooo bad…. I put it in the pocket of my pyjamas, and clipped it on. I had a pretty restless sleep with that and the low and then had to get up at…

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By Nic on 8 July 2008 at 7.59 am
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