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Permalink Reply by Rob on November 11, 2011 at 6:39pm

I'm surprised he didn't tell you, you needed an intervention for you insulin dependency. WOW!

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Permalink Reply by Brock G on November 12, 2011 at 3:03pm

Ok, I guess I will be the forst one to do it! Hi, my name is Sean and I am addicted to insulin. I started using it when I was young child and my need for it increased through out my life. I can go barely a few hours before the addiction raises its ugly head and demands that I feed the addiction! It has control of my life. The constant need to have a daily supply of this drug has caused me to do some serious things in life, like find a good job with benefits to maintain this addiction.

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Permalink Reply by Bug74 on November 12, 2011 at 9:58am

Chiroprators in FL don't have a corner on the crazy market. When I was first DX at age 14 a family friend (also a chiropractor) tried repeatedly to get my parents to bring me in for an adjustment. Thank goodness they didn't fall for it.

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Permalink Reply by Alan S on November 12, 2011 at 1:06pm

I first started learning about diabetes on usenet's misc.health.diabetes and alt.support.diabetes newsgroups from 2002 on. We got a lot of cross-posts from sci.med.cardiology. All of the various herbs/silver/chromium/acai/you-name-it cures appeared from the crazies there, but the three craziest were:

1. Drink your own urine
2. Avoid iron in all it's forms
3. The 2 P D O M E R diet

I won't mention the name of the guy who promotes the third one; he is a crazy cardiologist (actually qualified) from Atlanta who is in a psychotic world of his own, oscillating between religous fantasies and earnest promotion of that diet, which is based on some obscure bibilical text. However, mention of his name tends to cause him to appear; that is also why I spaced out the spellling.

The diet itself is as simple as you can get. Eat to a limit of two pounds of food a day. It doesn't matter what the two pounds is; it could be steak, beans or candy. And all your ills, including diabetes, will disappear :)

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.

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Permalink Reply by Scott E on November 13, 2011 at 4:44pm

Oh, I remember that guy (mentioned in #3). On the first D-blog I ever followed (which abruptly became dormant nearly four years ago), he used to fill the comments with his ridiculous statements and multiple web links. Poor blogger, he probably drove her away from her creative outlet.

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Permalink Reply by Alan S on November 12, 2011 at 1:12pm

If anyone enthusiastically promotes a wonder cure to you, send them to this site: GLUCOBATE: Be sure to click on any link after it loads.

I added that link to my blog years ago; I reckon it is the best government health web-site I have ever seen.

I am not usually one to praise bureaucrats, but in this case I applaud the person who thought that one up.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.

Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.

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Permalink Reply by Pastelpainter on November 12, 2011 at 1:30pm

LOL I laughed so much at this. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Brock G on November 14, 2011 at 4:19pm

Thanks for the laughter! I love the part when they included Maronesian healers. Next we need to find out how Romans cured diabetes.

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Permalink Reply by Mike S. on November 15, 2011 at 9:21am

Good one Alan......really funny. Here in the States we call products like that "snake oil salesmen"! (after the tonic sellers in the Old West).

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Permalink Reply by Alan S on November 15, 2011 at 12:35pm

It was first posted several years ago. Then one of my blog readers told me a couple of years ago that the url no longer worked. I thought it was too good to lose so I wrote to the FTC. I was pleased and surprised when they reinstated it :)

I notice some of their embedded links no longer work, but if anyone ever wants to check out a product or company it is worth doing a search on the FTC site here: http://www.ftc.gov/

For example, this is a search on acai and on Gymnema Sylvestre.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.

Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.

 

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Permalink Reply by Mike S. on November 15, 2011 at 9:16am

I think the only cure is a transplant. And not everyone is suitable for that procedure. Even then the patient would be on cyclosporine for the rest of their lives. Who knows the risks involved with that drug over time? Whoever finds the cure will be rich as Bill Gates.

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Permalink Reply by Anonymous Jim on November 15, 2011 at 12:38pm

Look at the transplant as a choosing on evil over the other. Have to do that enough in the voting booth refuse to do it with my health.

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