From Reuters today:
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two popular leukemia drugs, Gleevec and Sutent, kept lab mice from developing type 1 diabetes and put 80 percent of diabetic mice in remission, an international team said on Monday."
I'm always skeptical of claims that Type 1 diabetes is about to be cured. I've had this shit for almost 17 years, & news of a possible cure has come along at least once in every one of those years. I don't want to get my hopes up, but this one sounds a little more promising.
Given the choice between losing diabetes & losing the crazies, I'd choose diabetes in a heartbeat. They both suck, obviously, but my mental health problems come & go. A touch o' the sugar is constant. I worry about it when I wake up, when I shower, when I brush my teeth, when I get to work, when I buy coffee, when I eat lunch, & on & on & on. I can't even daydream freely: Whenever I fantasize about life on an uninhabited island, à la Cast Away (though usually with some hot woman who otherwise wouldn't acknowledge my existence), I quickly give up because I know I wouldn't last a month without insulin (which doesn't exactly grow on coconut trees).
Mental illness, at least, offers some unpredictability. When you're diabetic (& pessimistic) you basically know how it's going to end: blind, footless & on dialysis.
So here's keeping my fingers crossed, if only so I can live to see Eli Lilly take it in the ass.
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I've often wondered the same thing. What if I hadn't been close to a heart center or had been born in a 3rd world country I would be dead. You've lived with this for 17 years. I can't imagin. I've only been living with heart disease for less than one year and it's on my mind constantly.
Being a daft dosen't help much either.
I just got home from my shrink he says I'm in a distruct mode. He upped my meds. Is that always the answer.
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