Tumors causing Diabetes/ Causing Insulin Resistance?
I have Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Type 1; from tumors in my Pancreas, I have Diabetes, Type 2. I just posted a question about why my insulin resistance has increased:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak_mVc7tJYqvWWKADt4DxJjsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080226185438AAXbyX0
I’d like to rephrase: Could it be that the Pancreatic tumors are making me more insulin resistant? Could they be affecting me so that although I have lost weight and have gone down several sizes, I am becoming more insulin resistant anyway? Could there be other tumors growing somewhere else in my body that do this? And could someone explain why these tumors in the pancreas cause diabetes?
I’m not going to freak out; I will take everything you say and run it by my doctor; and bless you from the soles of your feet to the crown of your head… 
(It’s just that my doc is a little dim- he can’t figure this out on his own [Jeez, I wish I had studied medicine! I tell you, a Literature Major is no help! ] )
MEN I usually involves insulin-secreting tumors in the pancreas which would make you hypoglycemic; but occasionally can involve glucagon-secreting tumors which would make you hyperglycemic (glucagon essentially does the opposite of insulin).
It has also been observed that people with MEN I tend to have higher insulin resistance than others (Wagner et al 2005 European Journal of Internal Medicine 16(7): 507-509). This has not been explained.
On a side note, it is obviously kind of weird that you would be going down in dress size, but up in weight. You mentioned in your other question that your legs were swelling. Maybe you are losing body mass, but retaining water in your legs.
Posted in Diabetes Type 2 Insulin Resistance
MEN I usually involves insulin-secreting tumors in the pancreas which would make you hypoglycemic; but occasionally can involve glucagon-secreting tumors which would make you hyperglycemic (glucagon essentially does the opposite of insulin).
It has also been observed that people with MEN I tend to have higher insulin resistance than others (Wagner et al 2005 European Journal of Internal Medicine 16(7): 507-509). This has not been explained.
On a side note, it is obviously kind of weird that you would be going down in dress size, but up in weight. You mentioned in your other question that your legs were swelling. Maybe you are losing body mass, but retaining water in your legs.
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