Love Diabetes: The DCCT $700 billion and counting

The DCCT study ended in 1993. This study examined whether intensive treatment with the goal of maintaining blood glucose close to normal could decrease diabetes complications. Among the 1,441 participants the intensive glucose control group showed the development of complications was slowed. What was the long-term outcome for the intensive treatment vs. the conventional group? Today 15 years after the DCCT the gap between average HbA1c in the intensive and convention groups is closing. The complications between the groups is nearly the same line, and the statistics continue to climb with hypoglycemic unawareness, lethal car accidents, and unnecessary deaths oh yeah and the average cost to maintain diabetes is extortive! Wheres the bailout for this pickle? SUBSCRIBE for future vlogs at: http://www.alliesvoice.com

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[dziatctko2]

My husband was part of the DCCT study. You are misinformed about the study and it's success. My husband is still followed up by the study each year and has no complications of diabetes after being a diabetic for 28 years. Education is key and we were very well educated by the DCCT. The accidents you speak of are lack of control and proper monitoring. Which is an individual problem not the fault of the study. Control is key to prevention of complications and safety.

[TiredOldFart]

You should take lantus for basal dosing and humalog for dawn rise and meals. Put your Lantus on the nightstand in your bedroom. Keep your Humalog in the kitchen. You won't mix them up that way.

200-160? That is very harmful. You will suffer complications promptly. You need to bring mathmatical precision to your dosing instead of guess and bygolly.

NPH will not give you adequate control. It's action is way too slow to manage meals.

[toranacar]

Yes, sometimes I get pissed/cranky when my glucose is low. Its like a snap in personality, its kind of uncontrollable, the only thing to do is I remind my self not to snap when ever my glucose goes low. Be conscious of it while Im low in other words.

[seabulls69]

I think what impresses me the most, Allie, is not your incredible intelligence and neverending determination, but your willingness to question the status quo and to look at the money trail. It took me over fifty years to learn to read "outside of the box". Whomever you learned this way of thinking from ought to be given a hearty pat on the back... or a congressional medal of honor. You certainly deserve one.

[JackAshworth777]

I traumatized myself after almost accidentally killing myself by taking humalog instead of lantus. Now I can only take Nph in a weird OCD fashion to keep myself from panicing. I'd love to be without that. I've already seen a neurologist. BTW, anyone else get very pissed and annoyed when their sugar passes down through 220-160?