Does Type 2 Diabetes ever disappear with treatment?
I don’t know if "disappear" is the correct term to use here. Type II diabetes is ordinarily associated with obesity and insulin resistance. Insulin levels are actually normal or increased.
A patient who loses weight to a normal level and who eats well and exercises may eliminate the need for diabetic medications. This is not really the same as a cure, though, more of a means to control the problem.
Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult for obese people to lose even modest amounts of weight, and many diabetic medicines lead to a gain in weight.
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If you treat type 2 diabetes with the treatment that your medical people prescribe you can get it under control and you should live a normal life. If you do not do what the doctors and medical people tell you to do it can advance to type 1. So with proper diet, exercise and medication you should be able to get it under control. But the gene or cell itself will never leave your body.
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i doubt it, but you can get really close.
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type 1 for 7 years
No. There is no cure for diabetes. Once you have it, you have it.
However, diabetes CAN be managed and controlled and let you live a normal life. It’s entirely up to you.
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Diabetes type 2 is a chronic disease! It never disappears! It can be controlled so well that it is as if it has disappeared, but if you discontinue with your meds, food plan, activity plan, it will reappear with a vengeance!!
Don’t ever take this disease for granted!! It is progressive, not regressive! Some of us have progressed from simply food plan and activity plan to one med, two meds, three meds and then adding some insulin or two to the mixture!! We can never stop with our food plan or activity plan. We might be able to control well enough for the doctor to say we don’t have to take meds for a while, but that is a very rare occurance!!
I personally love my fingers and toes and especially my eyes!! I do not want to lose any of them. I want to grow up to see my beautiful grandchildren get married and have children of their own. Maybe there will be a cure then!!!
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I don’t know if "disappear" is the correct term to use here. Type II diabetes is ordinarily associated with obesity and insulin resistance. Insulin levels are actually normal or increased.
A patient who loses weight to a normal level and who eats well and exercises may eliminate the need for diabetic medications. This is not really the same as a cure, though, more of a means to control the problem.
Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult for obese people to lose even modest amounts of weight, and many diabetic medicines lead to a gain in weight.
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MD Anesthesiologist