T1 = Do not produce insulin due to pancreas failure of sorts, respond to insulin treatment by injections.
T2 = Insulin resistant, the body produce insulin but fails to use it. T2 can keep in health by diet, workout, pills or inject insulin. A bad case of T2 at my hospital takes dozes upp and above 300 units a pop every morning and evening.
So, with the islet transplant your body produce insulin making you a T2. If the transplant is sluggish you help the body out by pills and or injections. But as long as it produces some insulin you're a T2. But, IF your body would reject or destroy the islet, you could what I understand fall back into T1 category. So, the statement "I would always be classified as type 2" can't be correct.
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