subject: Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Type 3 Diabetes [print this page] Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Type 3 Diabetes
Doctors know of three types of diabetes. Insulin is the common factor in these divisions: How it is used by the body, how it is made by the body. These 3 types are broadly described thus:
Type 1: The cessation of insulin production is complete. It's all centered on the insulin organ, the pancreas. This can be because of over work due to long-term resistance to insulin requiring long-term overproduction or pancreas destruction by disease (certain sorts of flu have been know to cause this for instance). Some people have to control their insulin through direct action. This can be done automatically with artificial pumps or monitoring blood sugar levels and adding compatible insulin by injection, if needed.
Type 2: Insulin production, accompanied by insulin resistance. When you have high blood sugar problems after meals and you react differently to food than normal people (while still not adding insulin), you are considered Type 2 diabetic. Long term nutritional starvation, combined with overeating can cause the demand of many times normal amounts of insulin or insulin resistance in a growing segment of the population. If you are in that group, doctors expect your pancreas to give out before it's time.If you are obese, the odds of being told you have type 2 diabetes go up.
Insulin is used for more than handling blood sugar. An additional use is in transporting minerals and compounds from the cells as well. This use requires more insulin and is triggered by long-term nutritional problems. Because the 'spare parts' needed to make the energy to live are not supplied from the outside, they much be provided from the inside.
Daily rigorous exercise increase insulin sensitivity. Many people find that through testing, they are producing less insulin.
Bodily fluids are slowed by to much insulin - both the fluids inside and outside body cells. This contributes to poor circulation in the extremities and deterioration of the blood circulation system (heart attacks, strokes, clogged arteries) as well as break down of the nervous system in the hands and feet. The circulatory system is stressed. Doctors are expected to treat a type two diabetic as having had a heart attack in any case.
Type 3 diabetes is a recent classification. Divisions start to breakdown with this description. Insulin is produced, but because of insulin resistance or quality issues, additional insulin is introduced from outside sources. The same needs as Type 1 diabetics are there, including what's needed for injections. Why did doctors recommend injecting insulin to type 2 diabetics? Because control of diet, exercise, or oral medication didn't work out. Sad to say, but in some, it is because people don't do what's right for them.
The progress of this disease must be monitored by both the doctor and patient carefully, including the injection of any sort. Eating what you want and adding insulin as needed can end up being a disaster, resulting in many fewer years of life and a tremendous amount of suffering that can be avoided.
