Posted by Melitta on March 02, 2000 at 00:18:52:
In Reply to: Re: Type II Diabetes & Progesterone posted by Al Gordon on March 01, 2000 at 19:35:44:
Donna--A search through my files yielded the following: from a diabetesFAQ list, "The concentrations of c-peptide in non-diabetics are on the order of 0.5 to 3.0 ng/ml." From the article "Type 1 Diabetes: Intensive Therapy in the Female Patient" in the December 1999 journal "The Female Patient": "[a female's insulin requirement], normally at 0.6 units per kg per day, may rise transiently to 0.7 units per kg per day during the last 5 to 7 days of the cycle. The major reason for this increase in insulin utilization during the luteal phase is the insulin-antagonistic activity of progesterone. Because of the effect of rising serum progesterone levels, fasting blood glucose values may begin to increase 6 to 10 days before the onset of menstruation."
If I were you, I would question the diagnosis of Type 2 and consider that you may have Type 1. It is well-known that Type 1 progresses more slowly in adults than in children. A Lehigh University diabetic FAQ list describes "Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults" and how Type 1 in adults is misdiagnosed as Type 2. All too frequently, doctors try to manage the "honeymoon" period of adults with Type 1 with pills for Type 2, when in fact starting the person on exogenous insulin will prolong the life of the remaining beta cells. Pills for Type 2 just make the beta cells die faster.
Melitta