Diabetes or not?

Diabetes is an auto immune disease. which is to say that the body attacks itself for some unknown reason. In diabetes, the pancreas is attacked and damaged by its own T-Cells. Damaging the pancreas and reducing the efficiency in which it can regulate...

blood glucose levels in the body's circulatory system. There are many causes of diabetes...however there is no substantial evidence as to how or why diabetes actually occurs in a human being.

My question to you is:

Can it be possible that a person could be diagnosed as having diabetes without actually HAVING diabetes?

Can Decreased Pancreatic function give a false positive to this disease?

I don't think so. there is no known cause for type I diabetes, only theories...the thing is that if it is a problem that is genetically programmed, can ones own stem cells actually help?

I mean, can someone with type Iever be cured by the use of their own stem cells? surely if those cells have got a coding in them, they they are always destined to fail, eventually..

if you mean is it possible to detect pre-diabetes, then yes, in some people can can be indications. this is only referring to type I of course, my son has unbalanced sugar levels, his have gone as high as 9.9, but then most of the time they are normal, he has been described as boderline, when and how it will progress so the ilsets of langerhans stop functioning is unknown.

his father (my husband) is type I diabetic, although the link between genetic diabetes relating to type I is weak (0.6% of something very tiny) however, is it only because of this that I am more aware if it? if I didn't have a blood sugar monitor readily available, I would not know, and he would not have had this 'bordeline diabetes' theory attached to him...

only time will tell...as for your question, I am sure that they will detect the change in the DNA one day, but the research costs would be huge, and the results would not differ at all...so what would be the point in knowing you are going to develope type I? type II is very much a lifestyle diabtes affecting more people if they are pre-disposed to it, such as those with family history etc...

I don't pay a lot of interest in type II, I find type I more facinating, how the body 'shuts off' a part of it's own body...