Internetional Congress 1982. The discussion is Insulin or Sulphonylurea (SU) therapy? (page 285-291)
- In 2001 I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and I had no one idea what does it mean. The treatment was SU one tablet in the morning and one tablet in the eve. At the time of diagnose my fasting sugar was 370 mg/dl. The questing is, why I was diagnosed as Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetic Type 2 and my treatment was Glipizide (SU) and Metformin 2000 mg daily dose? According to my reading today the level of fasting sugar was too high to Rx SU, and insulin must be initiated. But why doctor do need it? Doctor already got patient, and I was with that doctor for the next ten years till my heart started to fail. Then I left that clinic, stopped to take all medicine they Rx, and started to take insulin. So, I still posting today.
- In this lecture Dr. Turner, R. present that any increase in level of sugar due to decreased effectiveness of insulin action. And what? No one said, it is absurd. At first, to talk about effectiveness of insulin, why do not check up if insulin present in blood? Why do not take care and test pancreas if pancreas healthy to secret insulin in sufficient amount? No one question of this kind for Dr. Turner. So, he still on high stage, and every one (If there really was someone to listen) listened this absurd.
Why insulin was not the medicine to address to the elevated level of sugar?
It is unpleasant aspect of giving injections.
Sorry, what really is unpleasant to be ill, to walk of wrapped wet and highly infected legs and live in fear to be amputee; not be able to hold any job, because of illness and weakness; high depression, and pain in every part of the body. This is so unpleasant that no one of us will give up insulin injections. Ask me, ask Elizabeth who injected first insulin dose in North America, ask anyone who live on insulin injections, no one of us ever will gave up our insulin, and really we do not see this as 'unpleasant injections' but rather as gift of life.
the need for the rigid dietary regime:
sorry, why dietary regime must be rigid? Elizabeth was able to eat all what she wanted after she got her insulin she cherished all her life. Without insulin she almost died in spite of very rigid diet. With insulin injections she lived, married, and raised children.
risk of hypoglycemia reactions.
With very first injections of insulin to dogs Dr, Banting was able to create regime and dose of insulin so, dogs no longer got into low blood sugar. It took less then month. Low blood sugar is not preventable, it is treatable end reversible.
New, let us take a look at the SU, does SU have the same problems?
Low blood sugar? Yes. If with insulin I can take good control of the dose of injection, the time of injection, and to change dose with activity or rest. It does not work with SU.With SU insulin still secreted if it is in demand or not. So at night when I go to sleep SU does not let me fall asleep, keep me active. Then at the end of the night I am wear out, but it is time to get up and start a new day.
Insulin let Pancreas time to recovery, to work out the problem which lead to beta cells degeneration. SU demand insulin, and demand is so high that it is only time when pancreas would be death.
BTW, is this really true that with SU we do not need diet? LOL! Ask your doctor when you may stop diet and eat as normal human being. If the answer is positive and doctor said you can do it right now then what are you doing in his clinic in first place?LOL!
Well, in his lecture Dr. Turner finalized:
SU lead in long term to cardio complications;
in long term SU lead to the condition that 'wears out B cells';
SU can be used only to treat Mild Diabetics (f.p.g.< 180 mg/dl). If fasting plasma glucose higher then it is insulin, and insulin only mat be used as therapy.
Insulin suitable to treat all severity of diabetes.
Now say me, what is left? only that injections are unpleasant. I can take it. I can live with it. If it is unpleasant injections then why do not ask me, do I prefer injections of insulin or SU which will kill me less then 10 years after therapy started, and put my life in every day pain and misery? Why never anyone asked me, what do I prefer? Why for me all the time it is 'cost effective medicine', Metformin $4 monthly supply and SU? Is this really true that this therapy so cost effective? If so then in what way and for whom? Not for me anyway.
76000 death every year, one year after another Americans die because of high blood sugar. Diabetes is number 7 cause of Death in America. Time when insulin, perfect type of insulin, already available to treat every American any type of us. No. It is not cost effective. They present, we do not want to take insulin because of we afraid needles. We do not afraid to lost legs. But to put needle into belly, oh no n no ! Really, who said that? I did not. I ask for insulin, I beg for insulin. No one insulin shot in hospital. I did not have high blood sugar. So, at first let sugar go over the sky, and then we will see what happen.
Diabetes: 11th: International Congress Proceedings Hardcover – July, 1983 by Mngola, E.M.
- Series: International congress series
- Hardcover: 590 pages
- Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd (July 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0444902910
- ISBN-13: 978-0444902917
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