Having type 2 diabetes I am terrified of the coronavirus. I am still abit overweight, trying my best to lose some weight! I suffer with severe Anxiety and contamination OCD, my anxiety is very high. I really do not want to go out anywhere!
Thankyou. I'm on a couple of forums for anxiety and OCD, I'm just very worried as I'm not very good at tying to control my T2 diabetes.Hi here is a thread regarding the COVID-19 virus, my son has OCD too, and well done on trying to lose weight.
Best thing is to have good hygiene practices in place, which I'm sure you do, get updates on what is going on and and try not to panic. Are you on any other forums that deal with anxiety, as these could help as you would be chatting with others similar to you.
Take care.
Thank you.I think the mention of Diabetes refers to T1 as it is an autoimmune condition.
If you have no other health conditions then you should be fine.
I think the mention of Diabetes refers to T1 as it is an autoimmune condition.
If you have no other health conditions then you should be fine.
I am type 1 diabetic and in the 40 years I’ve had it , I think I’ve been classed as susceptible to every thing from swine flu to bird flu to hippo flu etc etc , I’ve come to the realise that one is as bad as another and I’ve managed to survive , I do think there is a touch of scaremongering going on or as I like to call it a@se covering,I’ve looked at the %ages and personally I think they are not that bad . Plus this is corona 19 what happened to the previous 18 ? I will do as I normally do wash my hands etc etc , and take what comes.
Here’s a wee comment that may be hugely controversial, I ( and this is only my opinion ) think the reason there are so many allergies , virus’s etc these day is because we are too clean. I don’t prescribe going around like a skank , but these days there are so many antibacterial sprays etc which kill everything well 99.9% . We need good bacteria so how does it differentiate, we don’t build up any immunity on our own. When I was a kid we played in mud and ate sandwiches hmm did we get a wet wipe out errr no .
Was there a 5 second rule if u dropped sweets on the floor err no 5 week rule more like , and who can remember picking up fag ends off the road and rolling them in to a fag..lol
I do understand concern and I know people are dying and for those affect in this way I do show concern, but I think some of the advice can be a tad conflicting
Not confusing virus and bacteria but we need goose bacteria to help of our immune system kill good bacteria kills our ability to fight a virusI think the 19 refers to 2019 when this new variant coronavirus appeared. Not that it was 19th in a series of deceased viruses.
I am pleased you think it is not serious and relatively trivial, I hope you are right.
The doctor in China who was pilloried initially for warning the population, found to his cost it really was serious...it killed him and he was then declared a hero, even though he was dead.
Don't confuse a virus with a bacteria.
D.
I am type 1 diabetic and in the 40 years I’ve had it , I think I’ve been classed as susceptible to every thing from swine flu to bird flu to hippo flu etc etc , I’ve come to the realise that one is as bad as another and I’ve managed to survive , I do think there is a touch of scaremongering going on or as I like to call it a@se covering,I’ve looked at the %ages and personally I think they are not that bad . Plus this is corona 19 what happened to the previous 18 ? I will do as I normally do wash my hands etc etc , and take what comes.
Here’s a wee comment that may be hugely controversial, I ( and this is only my opinion ) think the reason there are so many allergies , virus’s etc these day is because we are too clean. I don’t prescribe going around like a skank , but these days there are so many antibacterial sprays etc which kill everything well 99.9% . We need good bacteria so how does it differentiate, we don’t build up any immunity on our own. When I was a kid we played in mud and ate sandwiches hmm did we get a wet wipe out errr no .
Was there a 5 second rule if u dropped sweets on the floor err no 5 week rule more like , and who can remember picking up fag ends off the road and rolling them in to a fag..lol
I do understand concern and I know people are dying and for those affect in this way I do show concern, but I think some of the advice can be a tad conflicting
I am choosing to make the assumption that the majority of those had notable complications and poor control and are likely to have been quite old too. Not good if those also apply you but fortunately not so much me and this is how I try and not panic as a result of being nominally in the no 2 risk group.Chinese noted the fatality rates for diabetes sufferers is between 7.3% and 9.2%.
Sorry, not great news. but this is the best data I have found.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
Did the four people travel together? Even if they did it still seems like bad luck.We have had 6 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Cyprus so far. Four of them involve individuals returning back to Cyprus from trips to the UK.
Yet the UK has only reported about 370 cases as of today.
Something does not add up.