Quick Public Service Announcement

There are multiple types of Diabetes:

Type 1 diabetes means that your pancreas does not produce insulin. You must get insulin from another source in order to live. It will be through injections or an insulin pump.

Type 2 diabetes means that your pancrease produces insulin. Either it doesn't produce enough or your body cannot absorb it well. You "may" have to get insulin from another source. You "may" be able to control it through diet and exercise. It "may" be a result of being overweight. You "may" be able to get your insulin through a pill or an inhaled version.

There are some that are identifying a new form of diabetes - slow onset. They are calling it type 1.5. A Type 1.5 will eventually need to manage their diabetes like a Type 1.

You cannot "get over" Type 1 diabetes and become Type 2. Could you have been misdiagnosed? Perhaps, but I doubt it. Once your pancreas stops working (definition of Type 1) it doesn't miraculously start again. Because, trust me, if there was a way for that to happen, every single one of us who suffers through or with someone with diabetes would be lined up to get that treatment.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.