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05-08-2008, 09:24 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,609
| | | This is a continuing rant among diabetics. They should know all about our problem and support us. Well how many of us are experts on the subjects near and dear to their hearts? And would we be "experts" if we did not have it? Not likely.
I know a lot of people enjoy the pain of dealing with these morons. I have diabetes and I don't have time to worry about them.
Co workers have told me for years I should write a book about computers because of my experience. They have a question and appreciate a quick reply. Now if they are not looking for that particular answer, if I started just randomly spewing it out, I'd get that glazed look from the same people.
I let the people who think they have it under control with their 400 BG readings be because they won't listen anyways. I too have seen severely obese sedentary people who say they control theirs like I do with diet and exercise as they stuff a twinky into their face.
We too are guilty of offering advice to people about diabetes. We too say some stupid things (in their mind) and yet we feel like we are doing them favors. And they get upset and have to get it off their chest on a forum.
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Diabetes is a condition that you have to manage or it will manage you. The care team is only there in a supporting role
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05-08-2008, 09:42 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RURAL NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 351
| |  Hi,
I hear things like this all the time. Oh you have 4 injections of insulin you must be a really bad diabetic. or they are only on tablets well then there diabetes is not that bad!!
In other words the speakers of these statments have no ****clue. (My husband used to always say things like this when I first met him. I've tried to educate him!!) 
I find when you try to explain a lot of people don't want to know. So be it. 
As others Have said we know what we have and how to care for our selves and who cares what others choose to beleive.
It's no use getting stressed about it as all that will do is put your BSl's up
__________________ Take care from Alicat61
Meds Byetta 10mgs twice day Started on 1st Feb 2008) Working well for me
Humalog 3 x day
Lantus daily
Metformin 1gm 3x a day
Aticand 32mg daily
Propranalol 40 mgs 2 x a day
150 mg aspirin daily (I need to have shares in my chemist shop) |
05-09-2008, 12:29 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 67
| | | Now make no mistake, the level of effort, AND the effectiveness of it have something
Imagine the frustration, Evermont, if you 'fight the good fight' and do everything humanly possible to be a 'good diabetic' (and I hate the word 'diabetic' too) and you still wake up in the morning with a soaring - 18.9 - BG, as I did this morning. So you're just lucky if your condition is relatively predictable.
I agree with the guy who said 'smile and wave'. It drives me nuts, as I've already written elsewhere, having to explain my diabetes to 'lay' people. I think it's none of their business, but everyone feels it's okay to talk about it, whereas if you had cancer they may be less inclined to stick their big noses in.
When people make stupid enquiries at the coffee machine at work, or across the table at a dinner, for example, "How are your levels?" I've been known to shoot back a line like, "Has that vaginal infection cleared up yet?" I get away with it because I'm known for being somewhat caustic -albeit in a humorous way. It soon shuts them up. (I don't say that to the blokes, by the way, but weirdly, they rarely ask such intrusive questions.) Another way to shut them up is to go all quiet and just mumble that you don't like talking about it. That one always works - but they usually go off and gossip about it! It gets back.
Unlike some of my fellow Ds on this forum and on a few blogs I've read, I don't feel it's my job to raise awareness about diabetes. I just want to live my life and not have the pejorative label of 'the diabetic'; good or bad.  |
05-09-2008, 07:20 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Dakota
Posts: 616
| | | I had someone comment in chat (elsewhere) "I'm sorry you have diabetes so bad you have to use insulin".
I likely could have handled it better, but what I said was effective.
"I have an A1c of 4.9. What's yours? Who has it bad?"
Perhaps I have a little bit of a mean streak in me, but it did feel good.
-Lloyd
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10/6/08 A1c 5.1 8/11/08 A1c 5.2 5/12/08 A1c 4.9 2/18/08 A1c 4.9 11/2007 A1c 5.3
8/2007 A1c 5.5 6/2007 A1c 5.7 3/2007 A1c 6.9 12/2006, A1c 7.8 9/2006, A1c 8.5
6/2006 A1c 8.7 |
05-09-2008, 07:24 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 1,886
| | I get that too... "type 2 on insulin = bad diabetes". Not so... I chose to take control early on and fortunately I had a proactive thinking specialist
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008. "...subjects lose weight by restricting only sugars and starches, without feeling any particular sense of hunger. Moreover, the less carbohydrates in their diets, the greater their weight loss, even though all her subjects were eating equivalent amounts of calories and protein" - Gary Taubes, describing research by Margaret Ohlson |
05-10-2008, 11:24 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 67
| | | LOL! I really did! |
05-11-2008, 09:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kansas, US
Posts: 1,055
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Originally Posted by Lloyd  I had someone comment in chat (elsewhere) "I'm sorry you have diabetes so bad you have to use insulin".
I likely could have handled it better, but what I said was effective.
"I have an A1c of 4.9. What's yours? Who has it bad?" | I think that the response was appropriate. Congratulations on a totally sweet (figuratively, not literally!  ) A1c value!
A well-meaning friend was talking to some doctors about my D. "Oh, he should have it controlled by now! He's doing something wrong!"
Yeah, I still have dips and spikes. Far more than I'd like, in fact. Working on it. But I dropped my A1c from 12.9% to 5.3% in four months... so... uhhhh....
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DXed 2007/04 = advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3
post-DX A1c = 5.4% @ 2008/07; 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
c-peptide = 0.0% @ 2008/07
current BMI = 26.0 (86kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal = 4U human N @ 0630, 7U human N @ 1130, 7U human N @ 1630, 17U detemir @ 2030
bolus = 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of aspart, human R, human N
not a low-CHO eater... not even close!
last updated 2008/08/26 - playing with daytime basal again!
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05-11-2008, 06:45 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Dakota
Posts: 616
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Originally Posted by Eddy A1c from 12.9% to 5.3% in four months... so... uhhhh.... | Well done!
-Lloyd
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If it is to be, it's up to me! -Lloyd
10/6/08 A1c 5.1 8/11/08 A1c 5.2 5/12/08 A1c 4.9 2/18/08 A1c 4.9 11/2007 A1c 5.3
8/2007 A1c 5.5 6/2007 A1c 5.7 3/2007 A1c 6.9 12/2006, A1c 7.8 9/2006, A1c 8.5
6/2006 A1c 8.7 |
05-11-2008, 10:45 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Auckland
Posts: 272
| | TO be honest I can usually tell if person is stating things because they have a clue, or becasue someone hasnt educated them.
Most of the time when i come across someone who doesnt know, I tell them, No. You are wrong in that assumption. Here is some information.
Then there are the know-it-alls. I find it so much easier to ignore them and smille |
05-12-2008, 01:16 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 67
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Originally Posted by judi t LOL! I really did! | I'm still trying to work out how to quote what someone else has written. When I 'laughed out loud' it was after reading Gary's comment about having to find someone to have sex with in the next ten minutes. I had another laugh out loud moment reading his comment about his wife pulling on his 'line' in the night and him seeing it as foreplay. Good stuff - actually, excellent - but I'm concerned that since I've found this forum I'm obsessed by it. It's cutting into family time. How does one wean oneself off?? I'm about to check Gary's previous posts for more LOL moments. It beats anything on TV. |
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