David Forfar
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I read on internet that if you start with type 2 it could be caused by pancreatic cancer.what happened to being overweight and wrong diet why is the internet always trying to scare people.?
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over 50 and type 2
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trophywench
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Don't forget they also try constantly to cure us eg coffee causes cancer and within a week it prevents it! LOL
There have been so many scientific theories about this that & the other - in 1972 I was told by the hospital adult diabetes clinic nurse that I'd have to cease taking my birth control pills. Why? I asked. Well - some people say it might bring Type One on, she replied. Bugger what brought it on thought I, and instead said 'Am I to assume therefore if I pack in taking them - I'll be cured?' - all the time knowing damn well once you'd got it that was that, I'd done my Biology O level not all that long previously and I believed the textbook quite a lot more than this woman, who obviously did NOT like my response and said she'd have to report it to the Professor. Report it to who you like luv said I - perhaps he can explain what the hell the point of doing that - and running the risk of being lumbered with an unwanted child - would be.
Turned out he was the Diabetes Consultant - and he agreed with me as it happened so we never fell out!
Just don't listen to bollards mate !
There have been so many scientific theories about this that & the other - in 1972 I was told by the hospital adult diabetes clinic nurse that I'd have to cease taking my birth control pills. Why? I asked. Well - some people say it might bring Type One on, she replied. Bugger what brought it on thought I, and instead said 'Am I to assume therefore if I pack in taking them - I'll be cured?' - all the time knowing damn well once you'd got it that was that, I'd done my Biology O level not all that long previously and I believed the textbook quite a lot more than this woman, who obviously did NOT like my response and said she'd have to report it to the Professor. Report it to who you like luv said I - perhaps he can explain what the hell the point of doing that - and running the risk of being lumbered with an unwanted child - would be.
Turned out he was the Diabetes Consultant - and he agreed with me as it happened so we never fell out!
Just don't listen to bollards mate !
mikeyB
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Mind you, if you remove a pancreas because of cancer you become instantly an insulin dependent diabetic in the short time you have left. (Unless you are lucky and have a neuroendocrine tumour). 8% survive more than 5 years. That figure hasn’t changed in 40 years.
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