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Permalink Reply by Josh F on December 11, 2011 at 1:30am

I am actually jealous of yours! ;-) 2261 and you lived. Wow. Well I was not bad for a 1980 diagnosis. Hah.

Yeah, I hear what your saying. 32 T1 years of habits are hard, but I think baby steps I might get there. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Aimee on December 13, 2011 at 11:19am

I say NO to a cure... I think it is possible there will be something that will prevent new diabetics within my lifetime; maybe a vaccine of some kind.

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Permalink Reply by Emily Coles on January 4, 2012 at 4:08pm

I think there will be a practical cure (e.g. a way to control blood sugar that does not require constant work, like the artificial pancreas, smart insulin...) during my lifetime. I'm 37 right now :)

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Permalink Reply by Carol on January 14, 2012 at 8:51am

No, I really don't believe so. Still, I'm amazed at all the negative answers. My pet peeve is all the money spent on research that goes nowhere. Surely medical research is a cash cow that is totally unregulated. Look at all the pink in October, and nobody asks where all that money went, and what concrete help it brought to cancer.

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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on January 14, 2012 at 9:26am

Some of the reasons appear in sixuntilme blog entries about the artificial pancreas test done by one of the auteurs:

http://sixuntilme.com/blog2/2011/12/from_abby_closed_loop_trial.html and

http://sixuntilme.com/blog2/2011/12/from_abby_closed_loop_trial_pa....

I am still not a big fan of the AP as I think that I could beat one realatively easily but the fact that the trial was "cut short by vomit" doesn't make me wildly optimistic about it's prospects.

I think that's what's needed is a revsion to the current paradigm of "see your doctor every 6 months if you behave yourself or 3 months if you don't..." with more responsive care and communication with medical providers. I'm not sure how to fund it though. I think that message boards are a good substitute but there's probably not that many people willing to jump right in to taking advice from people named AcidRock or who look like Alfred E. Neumann...

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Permalink Reply by Brian Wittman on January 14, 2012 at 10:16am

NO

I may have answered this one before. I would guess that answer would be NO as well.

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Permalink Reply by Stoyan on January 16, 2012 at 4:17pm

http://www.tudiabetes.org/profiles/blogs/five-trials-currently-in-t... - some interesting new information on this

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Permalink Reply by James H on January 18, 2012 at 2:30pm

It will be cured by one of those socialist countries where it is actually cheaper to cure a disease than maintain it. http://cureresearch4type1diabetes.blogspot.com/2012/01/zhao-et-al-t...

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Permalink Reply by Stoyan on January 19, 2012 at 4:40pm

That's a good point James - in fact, I would argue that in any country, including the U.S., a cure would be cheaper. Mostly because a cure will hopefully be one process, or one campaign. Living with diabetes, as all of us know, is very expensive and there are a great deal many thing we have to consider and pay for.

It is a basic truth that the major foundations shy from but we need to pressure them in order to get on track in the search for a cure.

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Permalink Reply by Maggi on January 19, 2012 at 7:18pm

Yes

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Permalink Reply by Jenni0219 on January 27, 2012 at 7:36am

No

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Permalink Reply by magalicous-mo on January 27, 2012 at 2:15pm

I have heard for several years that they were real close to finding a cure. But I don't think there will be any time soon.

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