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Patient Stories: Islet Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes

  • Mike Schofield
    Story Tags: Islet Transplant for Type 1 DiabetesType 1 Diabetes
  • Alison Wesley

    After Islet Transplant, Glucose Control is "Amazing"

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    Alison Wesley received her diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes when she was just 11 years old, after she developed the classic symptoms of the disease – severe weight loss, excessive thirst, sugar cravings, frequent urination, and feeling lethargic. To treat the diabetes, doctors put her on the first generation of insulin pumps. She continued to use the pumps off and on until she was in her early 30s. But eventually, even the pumps could no longer help her control her glucose. "I developed 'brittle diabetes'," she explains. "My glucose levels were swinging up and down. I was checking them five to [...]
    Story Tags: Islet Transplant for Type 1 DiabetesType 1 Diabetes
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