Double diabetes is a condition in which patients experience symptoms of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Initially, doctors diagnose these patients with having type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease in which the beta cells of the pancreas have been attacked by the immune system and no longer produce insulin. People with type 1 diabetes usually notice symptoms in early childhood and they require daily, and sometimes, multiple doses of insulin. As their diabetes progress, these people tend to gain weight and they begin to see signs of type 2 diabetes, along with type 1.

This means that even though insulin is available to the cells in the body, the muscles, fats, and other tissues are unable to absorb it and so the sugar needed for fuel remains in the blood and the blood glucose level remains elevated. Type 2 diabetes is not an autoimmune condition, …