Can u live without your pancreas (that is what i meant to say?
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Yes you can. Both the endocrine and exocrine functions of the pancreas can be replaced. The exocrine function can be replaced with dehydrated bovine and swine pancreas collected from slaughter houses, the supplement would digest your food for you!
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Let me begin by saying that I commend you on your efforts to continue your education and not let diabetes stop you. I am 24 years old and finishing up my MA in English, so you are not alone. I completely relate to your situation, although I am not currently insulin-dependant. \n\nThere are new treatments out there. The new isulin inhaler should be on the market in just a matter of months .. sometime this summer and that would be one option. An insulin pump would also be a great option for you if you are up to 3 injections daily. This way, your sticks are greatly reduced. \n\nI am not sure about the pancreas transplant issue, but I have heard of islet cells being transplanted. I would recommend doing your own research on this. Consult with the ADA and see what you can find out there. I think these things are still pretty experimental for the most part. \n\nAs for other organizations that can help you with your expenses / treatment, etc., consider consulting your local health department. I work for a health department diabetes program and I am sure there is a similar program in your area. You can probably access free diabetes education resources and even get some help with meds. \n\nGood luck and best wishes.. I hope everything works out for you in your education and otherwise.
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Funny you ask that, can you get your hands on a pancreas? Exactly, thats why they don't offer them to cure diabetes, they would rather you live with it shooting up day in and day out. They offer them when they are going in for other reasons like kidneys and such but they are time and money consuming. To get a transplant is very expensive and time consuming also a little dangerous. They need you to shut down your immune system for six months to a year and then do the transplant and they you have a greater chance of rejecting the pancreas because of the diabetes also the ability to heal is slowed so its not likely that your doctor will do that for you if you want to live almost needle free get a pump and try that out your diabetes will be much better after pump therapy.
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Thoughts on Families who Have Lived Long-term with Pancreatic Cancer\nhttp://www.pancreatica.org/survivor_stories.html
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if you do not eat or drink\nyou do not need to use your organs....
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i dont think that the pancreas enlarged coz for a person with Type II Diabetes,the pancreas works properly.Only the cells lost their sensitivity to the hormone that is secreted by the pancreas (insulin)
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I'm not sure if you could live on it alone. But, I think you could use it as a supplement and I disagree with the other reply that says "Its nasty" to feed on that...I Love the taste of a woman that is excited and would even try to feed on her as a diet plan! hehehehe\nSound very delish to me! Mmmmmmmm
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Try to live without, you will get the answer
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And this is a question about diabetes how?
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the pancreas stops producing insulin which is necessary to get the sugar in the blood stream into the cells where it can be used.  Thus the liver starts to break down the bodies fat and do gluconeogenesis.
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Reproductive system we can live without entirely.\n\nMost other systems we need but can do without bits of:\n\neg. Neurology: we can live without vision, hearing, smell, taste
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In type I, the beta cells do not produce insulin-either because of a defect in the cell machinery or because of death of all the beta cells.  In type II, there is resistance to insulin at the receptor level-the body has to produce more and more insulin for the same effect..this can lead to loss of insulin production and the same situation as found in type I, no insulin.  The pancreas makes a very large number of substances, and is not a lobular organ-in other words, the beta, alpha, and delta cells, and the other hormone-producing cells, are found throughout the organ.  In type I diabetes, the rest of the organ appears to be normal-thus, if you were to transplant another pancreas in, you would have severe problem regulating the production of all the other pancreas-produced substances.  You would have to remove the original pancreas (which is otherwise healthy) and replace it with the donated one, which would have a good chance of being rejected, leaving you with no pancreas at all- Further, organ transplants are only done when there is no other treatment, and death would otherwise be imminent.  That is clearly not the case in diabetes, though there are a great many health risks.  Overall, the risks from having diabetes and taking exogenous insulin are less than having a tissue transplant, which isn't necessary to save the life at any rate.
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in a word no, but on the other hand u learn to be without something and i am sure most people would learn to live withoout it \n\nbut it would kill me lol
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True, you don't need carbohydrates if you want to live. . . for at least a while anyway.\n\nYour brain unfortunately likes to exclusively use glucose (from carbohydrates) as an energy source.  Unlike other organs, it cannot fully utilize fats and proteins as an alternative energy source.\n\nOnce you have depleted your carbohydrate reserves (glycogen), which sometimes can be as quickly as an overnight fast, your brain will start to look for alternative sources of fuel - either from glucose formed by new synthesis (ok for a while) or eventually from the breakdown of fat into what are called ketone bodies (this will happen in the liver).  \n\nUnfortunately the catabolism or breakdown of ketone bodies for energy is incomplete, and over time the buildup of ketone bodies will lead to ketoacidosis or ketosis - a situation where the elevated amounts of ketone bodies in the blood.  If this continues for long term, a slew of problems may start to develop eventually leading to symptoms of starvation or diabetes.\n\nThis is why high protein high fat diets must be done carefully with a full understanding of the diet involved.  Most of these diets may call for the absence of all carbs early for a short time, with then a reintroduction of "good carbs" - high in fiber and complex nature.\n\nPersonally, I would try to avoid it unless you're really in a situation where the benefits of weight loss are going to offset any risks from the diet.
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ok..in english diabetes is the inability of cells to use sugar in the blood due to either a lack of insulin (produced by the pancreas) or the inability for a cell to transport sugar across the cell. because your cells cannot use the sugar it stays in limbo between the cells (high blood sugar)until it is filtered out through the kidneys (this causes alot of pressure and can destroy them). the high blood sugar also puts alot of pressure on the eyes that can cause blindness. another effect if left untreated is pariphial neuropathy..a big word for loss of circulation and feeling in the lower extremities (legs) this can lead to sores that cannot heal (because the cells cannot use the sugar for energy) these are things that do not happen all at once but over time. If you do not keep your sugar under control these things WILL happen...PLEASE take this disease seriously...many times the treatment is diet and exercise depending on how much insulin your pancreas does produce..if this does not work you will need to take medicine every day for the rest of your life (which is much better than the consiquences of not treating it ....amputation, blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, ect...this list continues to grow.
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What are you trying to ask?\nYes. You will die without insulin.
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you can't get rid of type 2 diabetes but following a good diet and looking after yourself properly you can control it. and having really well controled type 2 you may not need to take ur BSL's as much maybe once a day maybe once a week maybe hardly ever, and some people don't even need medication for it, wen really well controlled you may not even have the feelings of diabetes at all, just need to see a doc to keep an eye out