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Permalink Reply by Josephine A Ni Dhomhnaill on October 7, 2012 at 1:46pm

I stopped taking insulin and ate virtually nothing, I ended up in intensive care. Maybe some people can manage with their lantus but I'm not gonna try it. I have heard that the likes of Halle Berry has stopped taking insulin because she doesn't eat much, but you can't believe everything you read.

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Permalink Reply by Alisonisayoshi on October 7, 2012 at 3:45pm

Your liver is going to dump out sugar, no ifs ands or buts about it! If you are a T2 I suppose it might work out somehow but not a T1.

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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on October 7, 2012 at 4:35pm

why is his liver going to dump sugar?

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Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on October 8, 2012 at 3:49am

Our body constanly consumes glucose especially the nervous system and muscles. The digestion will deliver glucose at unspecific times. The liver will store the glucose coming from the digestion. These deposits are then continuously released by the liver to make sure that the needs are covered. For these micro-releases the healthy body will release micro-dosages of insulin. For insulin dependend diabetics the basal insulin is responsible to cover these glucose releases. In times of stress or in the morning the liver can increase its release rate causing a spike in the blood glucose.

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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on October 8, 2012 at 4:02am

but why is this liver dump definitely going to happen if eating low carb? it happens anyway to people with dawn phenomenon who are not eating low carb, and as you have written, at unspecific times?

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Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on October 8, 2012 at 4:22am

This has nothing to do with low carbing or not. The liver will act as our battery for glucose. This battery will be refilled with every meal we consume. The liver will release the stored glucose in tiny amounts per hour. Without these micro-releases of glucose our body can not function properly. The releases will increase the blood glucose. For this we need basal insulin so the cells can consume the glucose.

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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on October 8, 2012 at 4:27am

thanks. i was confused by alisons post re a type 1 dumping liver and low carbing not working for type 1 people.

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Permalink Reply by tyler on October 8, 2012 at 7:02am

I would be happy to just be able to do my basil (lantis ) even if I had to break the dose up right now I am taking it all at night .

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Permalink Reply by Jen on October 7, 2012 at 3:54pm

I eat under 30 grams per meal and 10 grams if I snack. According to my pump I've had an average of 79 grams per day over the past week.

I still have to take insulin for all meals and snacks or else I go high. A Type 1 would not be able to stop taking insulin even if they ate nothing.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on October 7, 2012 at 3:59pm

Type 1's in their honeymoon stage do often have a varying ability to bolus little or no insulin for some foods. Also Type 1's with slow onset (LADA) can go for months, sometimes even years without insulin.

For myself I ate "under 100 grams per day" since I started on insulin. I then went down to 35-60 to lose weight. I'll probably move to something in the middle soon.

Halle Berry is an idiot and giving out very dangerous myths.

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Permalink Reply by JohnG on October 7, 2012 at 4:22pm

You can get buy on just lantis... I guess the big question is hows your BG?...are you slowly loosing weight? Are you healthy and happy with your diet?

Note: Don't stop taking your basal insulin.

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Permalink Reply by tyler on October 7, 2012 at 4:34pm

Yes I am losing weight slowly , I only want to lose like 10 pounds . My BS changes but stays around 100 .

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