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Type 2, now called NIDDM,( NOn Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus). This type is divided into three sub types.The reason being is for specific treatments. As research fns out, many type 2s have specific problems that casue the condition.There are:
Insulin resistant, glycogen releasing, and insulin incompetent. The first type means that your body isn�t sensitive enough to the insulin you produce. That is the cells in the muscles cant use it.
The second means that you liver is pushing out concentrated glucose
( glycogen) more than your own produced insulin can handle, and the third type is Insulin incompetent means that the insulin you are producing is not sufficient to do the work, either by amount or concentration.
The last seems to be the most prevalent.It is becauseof this, that many different Oral
mediciations ahve been devloped. Glucotrol for example makes the pancreas produce insulin, glucophage stops the production of both insuln and glucose release from the liver( this is based on the fact that you produce enough insulin), Roziglitazone helps the body to use the insuin( provided you produce enough insulin).

Brittle Diabetes is actually a complicated one to diagnose.
This type is often seen but very rarely diagnosed. It is often considered an out of control type of diabetes.And very few are actualy pinned down to have it, even with diabetologists. Often they think it is typical types that are out of control. When in fact it has it's own set of diagnostic rules to go by. Brittle is often seen as Odd, ultra highs, followed by ultra lows, or a wave pattern of highs and lows. No matter what treatments are considerd and tried, control may be gained for a little while, then back to it's trademark Wave pattern. The only way to control Brittle , and prevent its complications, has successfully been tried with the pump. Only the pump that has carbohydrate calibration seems to gain emmense control. The newer insulins help as well, since they so closely relate to the human cell. Pancreatic transplants and piggybacks are also the ultimate cure for brittle.

Step 1 Know what type you are.
Knowing what type of diabetic you are diagnosed as, is an emmense help. MAny times doctors will not tell the person if they are type 1 (IDDM) or type 2 (NIDDM). they simply say, in archaic terms at times that you are diabetic, or " have sugar".
Theer are differences in diabetes, siomply because different types require different treatmenst, tho all types do have some same components.Diet, and exercise are two components that np matter which type you have are extremly important. MAny diabetci with type 1 simply think they can take extra nsulin to comepnsate for that pieces of cake, and many type 2s thnk they have the better diabetes. In truth there is no better or worse diabetes. They both do the same damage, and eventually many type 2 do have to go on insulin because of small thing called pancreatic exhaustion.
As was said in the previous page there is about 13 types, 7 actual classifications of diabets. But they are divided between two basic groups. Insulin deopandant and non insulin dependent. Below we will take a quick look at the basic types.

Type 1 often called Insulin Dependant Diabets Mellitus. Often referred to as IDDM .This is because there is total lack of insulin in the body. This can be by two basic methods. Either the pancreas has stopped producing insulin. or it has been removed . Some birth defects can be the total absence of a pancreas as well.
Type 1 diabetic( IDDM) people need insulin. It can not be skipped or missed. Since the body uses insulin for digestion, it is important that constant monitoring and scheduling of the injections be done in as natural a rythym to the bodys time clock as possible.
A pump offers a contiuious flow as in a normal body. So when the body signals the need for insulin after digestion, the flow is there. Otherwise shots have to be adjusted for meals to compensate for peakperformance. So foten shots are given 15-30 minutes before meals, and as long as 2 hours before. depending on how agressive the control is wanted.
May people falsely think of this as the worse of the diabeets, simply because of the shots.

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Bad Information:
Many people to this day callahving diabetes as having sugar. You have sugar in your coffee, in your tea, in your lemonade. You do not have "sugar". Today that term is used primarily from doctors to pateints and from person to person to simplify things. In truth, once we get used to using Diabetes as word, it will be easier to deal with.
Another False idea is that there is a good diabetes and bad diabetes. Many people foolishy think that the bad diabetes is one where you have to take shots. It coudl be because of the shot itslef that it is thought it is worse.. And many think that the type 2 is the better kind because you get to take a pill.
In truth type 2 does more damage than type 1.
How can that be? you ask. It is simple. For years the BG levels can rise and fall, and show that there is no consistant high. As BG ( blood glucose) levels rise, ketones are produced and damage occurs. This causes the person to seek medical attention to the reaction to the damage. (Ketones are an acid that the body produces that is akin to acetone nail polish remover on nylon pantyhose.)
Often Doctors see patients with abscesses, or ulcerations, or heart trouble, and scoff off the elevated BG levels, By natural course of pain and illness BG levels rise. It is the sane doctor, the well trained doctor that can pinpoint and connect problems with diabetes. Most doctors simply overlook elevated BG levels, and cursory questions of" do you have diabetes" often go wiith a simpl no, and nothing more is done or said about it., and That is how damage continues for years.