I don’t know anything about labs.
An online diabetic friend says he is making insulin. He has been diabetic (T1) since he was 6 months old.
I told him he was crazy.
He says “Fasting C Peptide is .3ng/ml.”
He thinks that he regenerates beta cells that function, on and off, periodically throughout his life. They function badly for some period, and then T cells “take them out.”
I don’t know what any of that means, but he says that he can function without basal insulin for periods of time. He says he can’t ever eat without injection because he doesn’t produce that much insulin.
He was a UPS driver for a while because they have good insurance and he said you had to pass a serious physical, but that his a1c was under 6, so he did. He’s a manual injection guy - 40 units per day of 70/30. He says he doesn’t fit the classic definition of T1, but that he has met other people like him.
I’ve just never heard of anything like this before.
I didn’t know that any T1 EVER could create insulin. Is that true?
Are there more of you out there?
He says he will send me a photo of the lab work tomorrow. But I don’t know anything about lab work. This might be an opportunity for me to learn what all that crap means.
This isn’t what some of you mean when you say that you are “insulin sensitive,” is it? How would you even manage if your pancreas spontaneously and irregularly produced insulin? That feels like a real crap shoot. 