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I caught a little guy running around the patio . . .
He was just as curious about me as I was of him. And for a while he was a willing model. But in the end, he scurried off into the bushes for safety's sake - and for the safety of my flowers, which I have no doubt he was about to make his snack.
It makes me wonder about the carb content of flowers . . .
Its been ten months since I succumbed to the crushing blow of LADA and went KETO. Today I have a blood test to gauge my progress toward normal sugar levels and the overall health of my endocrine system. I feel good about it as I tested at 109 this morning and have a fourteen day average of 113. That's very good, nay perfect and should reflect in the metabolic panel and hemoglobin A1C. Here's to health.
OK, folks. Thanks to Mom's tireless research and my constant pestering of the clinic doctors - although they proved to be useless and under-informed - it has been determined that I have LADA: Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults Researchers estimate about ten percent of adults with type 2 diabetes may actually have LADA. Doctors should suspect LADA when type 2 patients fail to respond to diet, exercise, and medications (hypoglycemic agents) within two to three years of their diagnosis, particularly when patients are younger and non-obese. It’s important to start insulin therapy as soon as it’s needed to keep blood sugar levels under control and reduce the risk of complications from diabetes. Unlike type 2 diabetes, which is usually seen in overweight patients, LADA can occur in adults who are of normal weight and have no family history of the disease. From: HealthBeat: Adult Type 1 Diabetes • By: Rebecca Somach:
Diamyd Medical (Reuter: Diam.st) is developing a GAD vaccine for insulin-dependent diabetes. The company reports that patient recruitment has been concluded, that all the patients have now received two vaccinations and that no negative safety indications have been reported for the vaccine so far. “We are now entering the final phase of our double-blind Phase II study. A few complementary vaccinations will be undertaken in February and we plan to issue a report of the results of the study in six to seven months,” says CEO Anders Essen-Möller. “ The first application of the diabetes vaccine is to prevent GAD-antibody positive diabetes patients being treated with tablets (so-called LADA patients) from developing insulin-dependent diabetes. From: News Online - Diamyd Medical - Press Releases
Some other very useful links concerning LADA are below: A long winded overview: LATENT AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES IN ADULTS (LADA) – OVERVIEW, EPIDEMIOLOGY, CURRENT ISSUES Medical Hope: LADA - Not just a slow motor vehicle but also an important subtype of slow onset diabetes type 1 in the adults
OK, folks. Thanks to Mom's tireless research and my constant pestering of the clinic doctors - although they proved to be useless and under-informed - it has been determined that I have LADA: Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults
Researchers estimate about ten percent of adults with type 2 diabetes may actually have LADA. Doctors should suspect LADA when type 2 patients fail to respond to diet, exercise, and medications (hypoglycemic agents) within two to three years of their diagnosis, particularly when patients are younger and non-obese. It?s important to start insulin therapy as soon as it?s needed to keep blood sugar levels under control and reduce the risk of complications from diabetes. Unlike type 2 diabetes, which is usually seen in overweight patients, LADA can occur in adults who are of normal weight and have no family history of the disease. From: HealthBeat: Adult Type 1 Diabetes ? By: Rebecca Somach
Diamyd Medical (Reuter: Diam.st) is developing a GAD vaccine for insulin-dependent diabetes. The company reports that patient recruitment has been concluded, that all the patients have now received two vaccinations and that no negative safety indications have been reported for the vaccine so far.
"We are now entering the final phase of our double-blind Phase II study. A few complementary vaccinations will be undertaken in February and we plan to issue a report of the results of the study in six to seven months," says CEO Anders Essen-Mler. "
The first application of the diabetes vaccine is to prevent GAD-antibody positive diabetes patients being treated with tablets (so-called LADA patients) from developing insulin-dependent diabetes. From: News Online - Diamyd Medical - Press Releases
Some other very useful links concerning LADA are below:
A long winded overview: LATENT AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES IN ADULTS (LADA) ? OVERVIEW, EPIDEMIOLOGY, CURRENT ISSUES
A quiz with no wrong answers: Diabetes Mellitus Series
Medical Hope: LADA - Not just a slow motor vehicle but also an important subtype of slow onset diabetes type 1 in the adults
TIME Asia: Silent Killer - So, Diabetes stikes big. Best let the doctors of the world do something about it and quick. Read page 4 of this article,...sure sounded like me.
Few have done so as successfully as Wasim Akram. His first hint that something was amiss came in 1997 when he found himself rapidly losing weight. He felt weak and tired, craved desserts and kept waking at night to urinate. A doctor in Lahore diagnosed him with Type 1 diabetes and told him to go on insulin at once. “I was very down,” says Akram. “I had heard diabetes only happened to obese people. I'm not fat.” Indeed, at the time, Akram was a world-class athlete, a man of 30 and at the height of his career as a fast bowler for Pakistan's national cricket team.
But Akram refused to let diabetes beat him. After three weeks, he was back on the field. He tested his sugar levels 10 times a day, pricking a hole in each finger to draw blood. He injected himself with insulin three times daily and ratcheted up his fitness regimen, heading to the gym for two hours a day. “I learned that the best way to control the sugar levels is to exercise,” he says. Akram also came to quickly recognize signs that he is weakening. “I start sweating and feel hungry,” he says, “and I have a chocolate on the boundary line.” Only when he's bowling does he miss an insulin shot, since the exertion burns off enough sugar to keep his body functioning without medication.
His efforts have paid off. In 1999, just two years after being diagnosed with diabetes, Akram captained Pakistan to the World Cup finals. Today, he reigns as one of the game's all-time greats: only three bowlers in the history of test-match cricket have taken as many wickets. Next year, Akram plans to retire from cricket and focus increasingly on educating people about diabetes. He's already traveled throughout Pakistan, as well as to Australia and England, to speak about combating the disease by living healthily. “People listen to me,” he says. “They think: If he can do it, so can we.” TIME Asia: Silent Killer
Many thanks to ::soy sauce and garlic:: for this link. How I have waited to hear of another like me!
