Unless you’ve HAD a pancreas transplant – how do you know? I HAVE a kidney/pancreas transplant. Both were successful. So, I no longer have to measure every single thing I eat, no longer have to figure out how many carbs are in what, don’t have to match insulin to carbs, don’t have to eat at the exact time for every meal, don’t have to change insulin pump insertion sites (or buy pump supplies or insulin) don’t have to check my blood sugar before I exercise, don’t have to carry fast-acting glucose everywhere, don’t have to have my A1C checked and don’t check my blood sugar levels at all (unless I want to see what normal blood sugar looks like just for fun). I probably won’t have any more diabetic complications. I can eat freaking dessert or a candy bar or 10 bananas if I felt like it.

Here’s the terrible "regimented schedule" I traded that for. I take four pills twice a day. Oh, that’s horrible.

The pills MIGHT cause me to have skin cancer one day (I wear sunblock – like everyone should). They MIGHT cause other side effects. (I’m almost 5 years out from transplant – no side effects yet). I’ll trade every side effect in exchange for not being diabetic & having more complications.

Transplant is not a cure, but it’s a lot better than being diabetic.

I do want a cure for Type 1, and the best things to do for that is to monetarily support the JDRF and American Diabetes Association
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1) You have the diabetes gene

2) A medical or stressful condition occurs that triggers the diabetes gene into activity.
Doctors and scientists is still unsure of what exactly causes this trigger.

When the gene is "triggered" the pancreas ceases to produce insulin. It just stops and will never ever again produce any insulin. The cells that must do this dies and cannot be revived.

At some stage someone very clever or very lucky will stumble upon something that enables the dead pancreas cells to be revived and to start producing insulin again. That time is not yet upon us.

The only other "cure" is a pancreas transplant, which is not perfected yet as it causes too many other complications.
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Transplants work…sort of. Usually diabetics don’t get transplants of just those insulin producing cells, because a transplant patient has to be on an even more regimented treatment plan than a diabetic. So if a diabetic needs a transplant of some other organ, s/he might very well get a transplant of those cells, as well, because s/he’ll have to take anti-rejection medicines and do all that other stuff anyway.

I think that there WILL be a cure. I have no idea when. I think that we should be doing a lot more research with stem cells.
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