I know there have been treatments for diabetes though we do not know a reason upon because we can not heal diabetes, any sort of diabetes. Please Help! Thank You.
There are 7 suggestions to question “How come you can not cure diabetes?”
It all boils down to the fact that it is just too complicated to cure.
Many people have had pancreas transplants but the transplant is difficult due to the fact that the pancreas is very delicate and not everyone is an organ donor. Right now they only do these transplants when someone is dying from diabetic complications. My uncle had a pancreas/kidney transplant and lived for 15 years until he had a heart attack.
Doctors all over the US and Canada have been working on islet cell transplantation. I know that in Philadelphia they had cured several people this past summer. The islet cell transplantation is only in the clinical trial stages right now. The medical community has recently found a better way to transplant these cells and they have had better results but it will be years before this is available to all diabetics. I was in the clinical trial in Philly and only know all of this info because I asked. I unfortunately had other health problems and had to drop out.
The medical community has been working for years on an artificial pancreas or implantable insulin pump. There have been way too many problems with these however.
There seems to be new discoveries and hope on the horizon everyday. I’ve been reading for years that a cure is just around the corner. Hopefully one day soon someone will find the thing that finally works perfectly.
simply, a cure hasn’t been discovered. its like cancer, just shows up sometimes.
Insulin is a naturally occuring substance in your body and once its not produced any longer you become diabetic. You cannot start the production of insulin again so therefore you need to inject it into your body.
Because it is a progressive damage to pancreas, that can have started in a primary way or be preceded by an insulin resistance. Diabetes appears when pancreas is too damaged to produce insulin. If it is not, the condition is a prediabetic state (expressed by a slightly high glucose, fasting or after a meal) and the pancreas can handle it without meds but also you have to remember your pancreas is now delicate and does need not to be overloaded with sugar.
Maybe someday stem cells will be used to repair a damaged pancreas and can become normal pancreatic cells, but that would be very expensive and it would take years to get some that are crossmatched with your own cells. Don’t rely on that yet!
diabetes isn’t cureable yet, because people have to find out the way to cure it which is complicated, then find things to test it on, then try to find people to test it on, wait for several years for the government to pass it and then try to find people to use this. I think the cure will be here soon. I think it should come by my life time and I’m not too old.
In fact is a small number of patients it can be cured by islet cell transplant. Research is being done o see if this can be done without immunosupression (as the body would reject the transplant as "non self" ) without immunosupression. At some stage in the future it may be able to do this then type 1 diabetes with be curable
It all boils down to the fact that it is just too complicated to cure.
Many people have had pancreas transplants but the transplant is difficult due to the fact that the pancreas is very delicate and not everyone is an organ donor. Right now they only do these transplants when someone is dying from diabetic complications. My uncle had a pancreas/kidney transplant and lived for 15 years until he had a heart attack.
Doctors all over the US and Canada have been working on islet cell transplantation. I know that in Philadelphia they had cured several people this past summer. The islet cell transplantation is only in the clinical trial stages right now. The medical community has recently found a better way to transplant these cells and they have had better results but it will be years before this is available to all diabetics. I was in the clinical trial in Philly and only know all of this info because I asked. I unfortunately had other health problems and had to drop out.
The medical community has been working for years on an artificial pancreas or implantable insulin pump. There have been way too many problems with these however.
There seems to be new discoveries and hope on the horizon everyday. I’ve been reading for years that a cure is just around the corner. Hopefully one day soon someone will find the thing that finally works perfectly.
simply, a cure hasn’t been discovered. its like cancer, just shows up sometimes.
Insulin is a naturally occuring substance in your body and once its not produced any longer you become diabetic. You cannot start the production of insulin again so therefore you need to inject it into your body.
Because it is a progressive damage to pancreas, that can have started in a primary way or be preceded by an insulin resistance. Diabetes appears when pancreas is too damaged to produce insulin. If it is not, the condition is a prediabetic state (expressed by a slightly high glucose, fasting or after a meal) and the pancreas can handle it without meds but also you have to remember your pancreas is now delicate and does need not to be overloaded with sugar.
Maybe someday stem cells will be used to repair a damaged pancreas and can become normal pancreatic cells, but that would be very expensive and it would take years to get some that are crossmatched with your own cells. Don’t rely on that yet!
diabetes isn’t cureable yet, because people have to find out the way to cure it which is complicated, then find things to test it on, then try to find people to test it on, wait for several years for the government to pass it and then try to find people to use this. I think the cure will be here soon. I think it should come by my life time and I’m not too old.
In fact is a small number of patients it can be cured by islet cell transplant. Research is being done o see if this can be done without immunosupression (as the body would reject the transplant as "non self" ) without immunosupression. At some stage in the future it may be able to do this then type 1 diabetes with be curable
here is a good website to look for diabetes tips
http://people-with-diabetes.net/