| While I agree that both of these diseases are horrible I do think that linking them together creates confusion for both. They both deal with blood sugar, but in simple terms that is where the similarities end, as one could say about all cancers, or all other groupings of afflictions. I could probably be easily swayed that even if they were called X and Y that people would know little about them, but calling them both X with a subtitle at the end is clearly going to cause problems. Even people I would expect to know the difference (medical people) have responded to me saying, "but you are so active and fit."
grrrr...
I know for a fact that I would love to hear, exercise more, eat less carbs, and you will be fine, because heck I am already doing that but I can sympathize with how awful it must be to have type 2 and do those things and have people think you are lazy, etc....might even be worse than just saying you had type 1. Though clearly any type 2 people here are far from the land of denial, and have actually been educating me at how to get better control...thanks btw.
What is amazing to me is how little people know in general about all of this, while at the same time I have never noticed more commercials for diabetes stuff on TV than I do now. Anyone with me on that? Supplies, painless, easy to get on with your life....anyone sick of those?
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