Type 1 to Type 2 diabetes?

A lot of type 2's eventually do progress to using insulin, but this does NOT mean you are type 1.

Your body hasn't destroyed it's pancreas, it's just not making/using enough.

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Type 1 to Type 2 diabetes?

Done a bit of research but cannot find a clear answer. All the sites I visit to seem to be specific in one or the other. I am type 2 diabetic (non insulin dependent). My daughter is type 1 (insulin dependent). Is it possible for a type two diabetic to eventually progress, maybe in time, into a type...

Type 1 Diabetes is caused by the COMPLETE FAILURE of an Internal organ called the pancreas. This USUALLY happens in children under the age of 25, but it CAN happen to anyone at any time.

Type 2 Diabetes is characterized by:

a) a PARTIAL fa lure of the pancreas

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B) The body's inability to use insulin, even though the pancreas is working correctly

Type 2 Diabetes is caused primarily by being overweight. It occurs most often in adults that have poor lifestyle habits, but it CAN occur in children as young as 9 years old who are severely overweight.

For Type 1 to "progress" to Type 2 would mean that the pancreas has somehow healed, and this is not possible.

It IS possible though, for an untreated Type 2 Diabetic, or one who has ignored doctor's advice, and thus the pancreas can fail after years of being Type 2 Diabetic . Thus, It IS possible for a Type 2 Diabetic to "progress" to Type 1.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus does NOT 'progress' to type 2, and type 2 diabetes mellitus does NOT 'progress' to type 1.

celtic.piskie is correct in her assertion that type 2 diabetics often do progress to using insulin, but this is still classed as a treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus. You don't actually become type 1.

The pancreas does NOT become destroyed in either type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus. It's the beta cells (islets of Langerhans) that become destroyed in type 1 diabetes. In advanced stages, or long-term, type 2 diabetes mellitus, there comes the possibility of the beta cells 'wearing out' where they simply do not produce insulin, but this still does NOT make you a type 1 diabetic. The root cause of type 1 diabetes mellitus is that it is an autoimmune condition where your body's own defences [defenses, if you're American] destroy the beta cells.

Thumbs up to both celtic.piskie and Anatomy.

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type 1 and 2 diabetes occur for different reasons.

with type 1, your pancreas isnt able to make insulin b/c the cells responsible for insulin production die and are permanently gone.

with type 2, your insulin producing cells (called beta cells) do lose some functionality over time. but the problem is more with insulin resistance. meaning, you have insulin, but your body cant use it well.

it is possible that you can have certain conditions (like certain gall bladder-related diseases) that can cause destruction of those insulin making cells. you would then have type 1 diabetes.

it is not accurate to think of type 1 diabetes being worse. you dont "progress" to type 1. both forms of diabetes are equally as devestating to the human body.

also, you cant "progress" from type 1 to type 2 because those insulin making cells are gone.

It is possible that a type 2 diabetic can progress into a type 1 (given your definitions of the two types). Type 2 (like I am) means insulin resistant controllable by diet and oral medications. If the resistance continues to build then at some point insulin may be the only medication that will overcome that resistance.

I am currently on the RITE diet (google F. Catanza Rite) and it is lowering my blood sugar quite well, after 3 months. I am still on metformin, and still have 80 pounds to lose, but am more hopeful with this diet than any of the others I have tried (Zone, etc.).

Type I diabetes is often called juvenile-onset diabetes, and is the more serious form. Type I usually strikes when a person is relatively young; it is unusual for a person over 30 to have it.

Type 2 is called adult-onset diabetes. The disease tends to develop gradually over the age of 40.

Only type 1 can progress to type 2 and not vise versa.