Great. First we had juvenile and adult onset diabetes, then we had the totally meaningless t1 and t2, and now we have the so called autoimmune. There is a lot of indications that actually all the major forms of diabetes may actually be all the same thing, just manifesting in different ways. And what about Halle Berry? That poor girl has been vilified in the D community as a not knowing the difference between t1 and t2. But I frankly refuse to believe that a smart woman like that with good medical care could actually have a totally bingled diagnosis. It is more likely she was diagnosed with autoantibodies and just is not requiring insulin. I’ve been askin for autoantibody testing for two years and have finally gotten approved. I was finally given a c-peptide which came in low normal and I was told it was not a useful test. What does that mean? I found you can order a full autoantibody panel including Antipancreatic islet cells; IA 2 autoantibodies; Insulin autoantibodies; GAD autoantibodies.
from privatemedlabs for $300. My expenses for virtually useless medications cost much more for a single month alone. But of course, exactly how much money would big pharma make off me if I moved to insulin?
This is an important topic, thanks for talking about it.