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How To Challenge a Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis
Many basic questions about diabetes have remained unasked and unanswered over the past 30 years. I challenge the medical and scientific research communities involved in direct research to find a cure for diabetes to STOP LOOKING for Type 1 diabetes. Stop trying to prove that Type 1 diabetes exists. Enough with the Nazi era theories of genetics. Start looking for Type 2 diabetes. Whenever possible try to exonerate diabetics from the false label of Type 1 diabetes. Don't assume it is Type 1 diabetes until you have tried to PROVE that it is Type 2 diabetes. Look at all your research on Type 1 diabetes and realize that these are old studies based on LABELS and not facts. What if like me these "Type 1's" are really Type 2's? Science is not about catch word fever and dogmas, it is about obtaining facts to find truth! You have a moral obligation to the chronically ill of the world to do better, to find answers, to find truth, and to publish it! Ask any doctor these two questions without disclosing that the two patients are the same person: 1. A 28 year old diabetic male taking 70 units of Lantus insulin per day plus 3-10 units of Humalog per meal has a non-fasting C-Peptide test result of 6.2 ng/mL, does this patient have type 1 or type 2 diabetes? http://www.diabetescasestudy.com/CPT.gif 2. A 7 year old male was admitted to a hospital ER for treatment of new onset juvenile diabetes mellitus. * His blood sugar was 553 mg/dl.* Upon discharge his insulin does were 20 NPH and 9 Regular in the a.m. amd 9 NPH and 4 regular in the p.m. (The insulin names NPH/Regular can be substituted with the current newer product names Humulin N/Humulin R to make the argument current.) Does this child have type 1 or type 2 diabetes? +http://www.diabetescasestudy.com/OD1.gif+ http://www.diabetescasestudy.com/OD2.gif -
Ask any type 1 diabetic on insulin these questions: 1. Have you ever been C-Peptide tested? If the answer is no, it calls the type 1 diabetes diagnosis into question. 2. If yes, was it a stimulated, non-fasting C-Peptide test (by blood glucose)? If the answer is fasting or no, it calls the type 1 diabetes diagnosis into question. If the answer is low or negative C-Peptide then ask this question: 3. What was the blood glucose level at the time of the C-Peptide test? If the answer to this is normal 80-120 mg/dl (or near normal) then that calls the type 1 diabetes diagnosis into question. If the blood glucose was between 200 mg/dl and 250 mg/dl for at least 1 hour after stimulation after a normal overnight fast of 80-120mg/dl AND the C-Peptide result is low or NEGATIVE then it is highly likely that this is a TRUE TYPE 1 DIABETES case. (However I would consider an already established case for more than 5 years as a better model than a new onset case for the simple reason that the body of a new onset case is experiencing a lot of sudden changes and stresses.) Additional question for the type 1 diabetic: Have you ever heard of the C-Peptide test? How many times have you been tested? When was your first C-Peptide test? The results from the above questions from the two scenarios: the facts of my own case and/or any type 1 diabetic on insulin should make for some very interesting discoveries and discussions.
Ask any type 1 diabetic on insulin these questions: 1. Have you ever been C-Peptide tested? If the answer is no, it calls the type 1 diabetes diagnosis into question. 2. If yes, was it a stimulated, non-fasting C-Peptide test (by blood glucose)? If the answer is fasting or no, it calls the type 1 diabetes diagnosis into question. If the answer is low or negative C-Peptide then ask this question: 3. What was the blood glucose level at the time of the C-Peptide test? If the answer to this is normal 80-120 mg/dl (or near normal) then that calls the type 1 diabetes diagnosis into question. If the blood glucose was between 200 mg/dl and 250 mg/dl for at least 1 hour after stimulation after a normal overnight fast of 80-120mg/dl AND the C-Peptide result is low or NEGATIVE then it is highly likely that this is a TRUE TYPE 1 DIABETES case. (However I would consider an already established case for more than 5 years as a better model than a new onset case for the simple reason that the body of a new onset case is experiencing a lot of sudden changes and stresses.) Additional question for the type 1 diabetic: Have you ever heard of the C-Peptide test? How many times have you been tested? When was your first C-Peptide test? The results from the above questions from the two scenarios: the facts of my own case and/or any type 1 diabetic on insulin should make for some very interesting discoveries and discussions.
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