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Question

Did you find you gained weight when you initially started taking insulin? I've read that can be quite a side effect even if you're not over eating!
How long did it take you to come to terms with your diagnosis? I've been reading about this Beta Cell study they're currently doing and hoping that will be ready ASAP as I am struggling somewhat!
Thanks for the info 🙂
 
I’d lost a lot of weight very quickly prior to diagnosis @Michelle F 1991 so yes, I put that weight back on gradually, but that was a good thing. It’s a common myth that insulin makes you fat. It doesn’t. If it did, there’d be no slim people anywhere as every human has insulin, either their own or injected.

What will potentially mess with your weight is not eating properly (because you’ll develop a form of insulin resistance) and it can mess your metabolism up. If you’re really struggling with food and worries about it, please speak to your GP x
 
Inka said:
I’d lost a lot of weight very quickly prior to diagnosis @Michelle F 1991 so yes, I put that weight back on gradually, but that was a good thing. It’s a common myth that insulin makes you fat. It doesn’t. If it did, there’d be no slim people anywhere as every human has insulin, either their own or injected.

What will potentially mess with your weight is not eating properly (because you’ll develop a form of insulin resistance) and it can mess your metabolism up. If you’re really struggling with food and worries about it, please speak to your GP x
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Thank you 🙂
 
Ah not one of mine, I first heard it from Tim and Alison at Shoot Up or Put Up
 
I've have t1 for several years now and still produce my own insulin (the low end of normal).
I can't eat anything without my blood sugar doing up. Not a meal of 8g with lots of fat, fibre and protein, not 2g sugar. Nowt. though i do have good control, which, until i was retested for cpeptide, i put down to my own hard work!

Not sure how i can't eat stuff if my pancrease still produces so much insulin, but hey ho. I do need very little basal so perhaps thats what my own insulin i doing
 
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