
Originally Posted by
Pooks
Type 2 diabetes is when your cells stop responding to insulin, causing you to need more and more insulin to get them to respond... Insulin insensitivity.
This is caused in a lot of people, because of poor diets. They eat a lot of sugar, which causes insulin spikes, which in turn leads to their cells to become less respondant to the insulin..
In a person with Type 2 diabetes who is treating it with exogenous insulin, I've read that it has been noted that as the times goes on he needs larger and larger exogenous doses, since his body starts to adjust to them.
Thats why it is preffered right now to treat Type 2 diabetes, with another drug, that has been in the news a lot lately (to lazy to look up the name) but it apprently helps you get more sensitized to the insulin, but has other side-effects as well..
Anyways.. If you are injecting high doses of Insulin on a daily basis, but do not have diabetes.. I still think your results will be similiar in a way to a person who has diabetes, in that as the times goes by you will need higher and higher doses to get the same effects. While off insulin you might feel sickly/tired just as a diabetic does, cause at some point you become one.