DBI
Gail,
Since you were 5 and I was 11.5 at DX, what was the reason they put you on
DBI since it was a BG-lowering chemical for Type 2’s? Mine was because being
pg in ‘60-’62 they thought the increased insulin requirements would harm the
babies so added DBI. I stayed with that combo of DBI, NPH and Regular for 16
years.
Jan (60 y/o, T-1 11/5/50, pmpg 8/23/83)
January 11th, 2004 at 6:24 pm
Jan,
The reason they put me on it, during teens and 20’s, the Dr though it would
make my body use the insulin I injected better. Wrong, huh.
That was just his personal idea.
Gail
January 12th, 2004 at 3:40 pm
Gail,
I dunno if it WAS his personal idea. Sounds to me like it was kind of
standard at the time it they did it where you are and did it where I am,
too. I remember a pharmacist questioning me as to why I was taking it since
it was for T-2’s. But in my 16th year of taking it I began to have really
low BGs. 17 hypos in one week. Our kids went to a private school and I once
had to sit on the parking lot (in the car) waiting to feel aware enough to
drive them the 10 mi. home.
One day I had eaten cupcakes, honey, and ice cream and was still low. Called
the dr. and he asked what I wanted him to do. I said, "You’re the dr." He
said to go to the E.R. I got there and they took a BG (those took 20 min.
for results then - no home BG testing). He let me lie there and went to a
meeting. I was furious. I wanted my purse to get more candy out of it. They
wouldn’t let me have it. He came in and said my BG was 120 so I wasn’t too
bad off. I told him again what all I had eaten and that was probably my high
for the day. I left him (in the ’70s and he was into psychedelic clothing
and had personal problems) and went to a GP. I was taken off the DBI. I was
with the GP for 5 yrs until an endo came to town and took over the other
guy’s office. I have had that office’s phone # since dx in 1950 - except for
those 5 yrs. Three drs. have been in that office.
(I oughta write a book)
Jan
January 21st, 2004 at 1:12 pm
The reason they put you on insulin is that the pancreas islet cells are
generally destroyed by the body’s own immune system. If insulin is
injected, the islet cells do not have to create insulin, and therefore, the
immune system does not attack and destroy the islet cells. Therefore, it
will be possible to retain complete use of your own body’s ability to
produce insulin when it is required by the body! Of course, the amount of
insulin injected would need to be very close to what your body actually
needed to give the islet cells the needed rest.
This is also part of the present study being done with relatives of
diabetics that have a high chance of developing diabetes. If they are
placed on insulin injections early enough, it is possible to eliminate
damage to the islet cells that are not producing insulin. And a person
could theoretically never become diabetic!
January 21st, 2004 at 7:08 pm
Keith,
NO, the reason they put us on DBI was to decrease the extra insulin
requirements due to pregnancies. Gail was 5 and I was 11.5 @ dx - NO insulin
is produced in our bodies. DBI was a source of concern for us as young as we
were and it being Rx’d for us. Also, DBI was later removed from the market
because it was bad stuff.
Jan
January 22nd, 2004 at 1:26 am
keith:
can you tell me about this study and where it’s being done? would like to
read the research….thanks, Joan