Comments on: Major Goof! http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2006/06/24/major-goof/ for anyone who has been touched by this disease Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:34:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Brianna Dorris http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2006/06/24/major-goof/#comment-4143 Brianna Dorris Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:08:14 +0000 http://www.type-1-diabetes.zolushka123.com/2006/06/24/major-goof/#comment-4143 Morning Lisa, It has to have been a type 2 diabetic. That or a type 1 with suicidal tendencies.... type 1's must have insulin period. We can survive quite a while without it, but things get pretty ugly fairly-fast without the stuff. Sure we can alter our dosages with the habit of heavy-healthy exercise, or certainly by our food intake (or both)... but we still need SOME amount of insulin to process what we do eat for energy, and use the sugar our bodies have available. Anyone on the list ever "shot blind" <GGG I'm betting this one will be a serious generational divide... pre 85-90 and after 85 to 90, but lets see <wg Jeff Morning Lisa,

It has to have been a type 2 diabetic. That or a type 1 with suicidal tendencies…. type 1’s must have insulin period. We can survive quite a while without it, but things get pretty ugly fairly-fast without the stuff. Sure we can alter our dosages with the habit of heavy-healthy exercise, or certainly by our food intake (or both)… but we still need SOME amount of insulin to process what we do eat for energy, and use the sugar our bodies have available.

Anyone on the list ever “shot blind” <GGG
I’m betting this one will be a serious generational divide… pre 85-90 and after 85 to 90, but lets see <wg

Jeff

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