Yes, the opposite happens too, when paramedics see my insulin/diabetes card or dog tags and when in hospital it's assumed I am T1 but I am T2 on insulin. Stereotypes abound in the NHS.
Baffles me too. The more I learn about diabetes and people's attitudes towards it shocks me.
Well the card is from Lilly the manufacturer of my insulin and the dog tags are generic but I have my name and type on the second tag. This can and has been missed.
Are you sure? I thought they all got beamed up by aliens and cured.That is ridiculous! As others have said T1 children do grow up........or do they become T2 when they are old enough? Unbelievable.Such poor care and such poor logic too.
Don't give the daily fail any ideas or we will all be walking around with the word "unclean"
I couldn't fit it on my forehead, the word MUG takes up that space already!
Putting aside the safety element, I seriously just don't get the rivalry between 'types'. I am actually a type 3c but no one has ever heard of it (including 99.9%of the NHS), and it gets confused with type 3 which is related to dementia. I tend to describe myself as LADA, type 1 or just plain insulin dependent. Im honeymooning so have fantastic diet support from the type 2s, on insulin so fantastic support from the type 1s. As I mention on another thread by best mate is a type 2 and we have ongoing competitions about whose care is the worse! So what is the problem?????? Sue xxxx
I couldn't fit it on my forehead, the word MUG takes up that space already!
Thanks @TooMuchGlucose, bizarrely someone has started a thread on it today!! Sue xxThere is at least one other person who has type 3c on the forum, but I can't remember who. I admit I really don't know anything about it. I don't understand the rivalry either, they're all bad
They probably would of insisted you are type 2, or, " are you sure, it says here in your records that you are type 2 ?.....................
You are considered even more of an oddity if you are diagnosed Type 1 at 55 as I was. I would go as far as to say I was treated like an alien when I was admitted to hospital with DKA, which was what clinched me being Type 1 together with the GAD test. Most of the nurses I came into contact with could just not get their heads around the fact, but here I was living proof. Some even took delight in telling me what I would no longer be able to eat and that how much I would miss these sort of foods being of such "advanced" years.
Perhaps we should all be branded. I'm sure that's what lots of people would like to do to us when I think of some of the remarks I have had directed towards me. After all why not identify the very people who are helping to bankrupt the NHS through no fault of our own, (that's all types by the way)
