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In reply to the discussion: My world changed forever yesterday. [View all]4edwards
(5 posts)I have been a Type 1 diabetic for 38 years. My health is very good and I think my entire family is healthier because of it. We eat better than I'm sure we otherwise would have and we all get regular exercise. So, I know you will take good care of your daughter and when she's old enough she will learn from you and take wonderful care of herself.
I wanted you to know about the most promising research I've read about in all of these years. It's going on right now at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard's hospital)and it's being conducted by Denise Faustman, M.D. If you google her name you can read all about it. One website to go to is html://faustmanlab.org/clinicaltrial/clinicalt.html. Basically, she's found that a generic sort of drug that is harmless (a drug that's been in use for 80 years!) can kill off certain immune cells that are responsible for killing off the Beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin. She's right now in clinical trials trying to figure out the dosage that's needed. It may be years until this is ready but she is on her way. She's an amazing researcher. Last I read (that may have changed) her research was not being funded by the normal diabetes associations-- I think because the profit possibilities with her research are less because it is a generic drug. Please read her stuff. Good luck. Your daughter will do well. Since I was diagnosed I've had 2 girls - now in their 20's- and have become a civil rights lawyer and have been practicing law for more than 30 years.