Diabetes Study

I don't understand why they would push their glucose levels to below normal. I am hypoglycemic: when I get sugar lows it is a *horrible* feeling. It's like being drunk, but not int he good way... in the I think I'm going to fall over way.

I too am anxious to see more data. God love the people who let science experiment with thier body's. I know a lot are at points of desperation in their disease processes or has nothing to lose, but thank you for giving what you got left to further find treatments and cures for generations to come. Good post Caduceus.

My favorite type of family doctor is the kind that keeps up with all the studies but treats his/her patients in general about 10 years behind the curve. That way all the medical 'mistakes' get left out.

The problem with aggressive treatments like that is it's extremely hard to manage. You need to have your day planned and know how much energy you're going to be expending when, when you're eating, when you're taking your meds and how long those meds affect your glucose absorbtion. The problem with constantly going hypo is that eventually your body stops producing the warning signs of being shakey, sweaty, light headed and what happens is you just pass out with no warning. So while very tight control of your glucose is necessary to avoid complications, being too aggressive can be just as harmful and deadly as not being aggressive enough. They need to make some type of watch type meter that is mointors glucose in realtime without having to stop and tak ea blood sample. They used to have a watch type device but that project was cancelled, the lag was about 20 minutes (so what it showed on the screen was what your glucose was 20 minutes ago). But honestly, this is what htye need to go to for really tight control. Another thing that could help is something like an insulin pump that also monitors and can dispense insuline as needed. The way i'd invision such a device working is you set the range you want your glucose to be within. Then you connect it to yourself somehow (probably 2 needles on the back side, one to inject and one to draw). Then every 5 minutes it takes a glucose sample and if the reading is higher than your range, it dispenses insulin on a scale, say 2 units for every 10 points you're over. As you go through your day, it keeps monitoring to see . if you get hypo then an alarm can sound telling you your trend is downwards and you should eat. Hell, this thing could have a 3rd vile of glucose and a 3rd needle on it and could inject glucose into you if needed as well. I don't know how something like that goes about being designed but i can't believe it hasn't been designed yet.