After taking insulin for 25 years, Marlaina Goedel, 30, no longer needs daily shots and can finally enjoy sugar again after receiving a pioneering stem cell therapy.  

She was one of three to have an islet cell transplant, a one-off infusion that involved transplanting islet cells into her liver to help her body produce insulin on its own. 

Within just four weeks, Ms Goedel no longer needed to take the sugar-controlling hormone, with her doctor calling her to say: 'Stop all insulin. You're cured.' 

Another patient is down to one third of his regular insulin dose, and a third was fully off the drug in just two weeks.  

Ms Goedel told DailyMail.com of the treatment: 'The cure is out there.' 

The mother-of-one was just five years old when she was diagnosed and doctors told her she 'should have been in a coma' because her blood-sugars were so high.

So extreme was her condition she felt robbed of a normal childhood, telling DailyMail.com she was in and out of hospital with life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes toxic chemicals to build up in the blood due to lack of insulin.

As an adult, Ms Goedel crashed her car into a brick building during a diabetic attack

The condition also robbed her of her chance to have more children, as the blood sugar fluctuations made her prone to miscarriages.

But it was when her 12-year-old daughter found her passed out on the kitchen floor in the middle of the night after suffering a fit that she said: 'Something needed to change.'