Indy51 said:
If there are members who are that traumatised by reality, then I think they probably need psychological help dealing with their issues. I doubt if any amount of sensitivity would help.
Exactly Asleigh. ctually this poll nd Pneu's comments are very apposite. It occurred to me earlier hat the testing Strips
Petition in itself could be a source of anxiety to many. They may be nmade to lose trust in the advice given by their HCPs because hey are being denied what many consider o be an essenial tool in controlling diabetes.
In fact T"s are actively discouraged from testing at all on various spurious grounds/
It would surely be better to tell peope hat testing is helpful but the NHS can't fund it - in the same way as many of us are advised o buy our own blood pressure monitors .
If the HCP s are wrong about moniors then maybe they could be wrong about other aspects of dibetes care...
This might upset sensitive newly dignosed person. How o help these people without lying to them or undermining their rust in the NHS and DUK advice?
I must say finding out that I had been given advice which didn't help at all but made mtters worse was the most difficult thing for me. Had I been old this at the ery beginning I don;'t think I could have hndled it.
I was issued immeditely with a meter and strips . Had I been told by the HCPs that I oughn't to test I doubt I would have in the bsence of any oher advic
If someone is searching for advice on he internet then the implicaion is that they wnt advice. Just as we cannot know just how much information hat individual can take we don't know he best way o presen the information to that person.
So many of us are honest and straightforward.
Had I had any idea that a sensitive poster such as Mongoose would be uoset by feeling he ws being forcefed then I would have requested admin to delete all threads menioning any sort of dietary advice.
t that rate here wouldn't be much left. Someone somewhere is going to be upset by anything posted , however it is phrased for reasons personal to them >
My sister is also a T2. She is needle-phobic nd won't test. She can't even read abut it let lone look t my meter and strips.
Mybe the petition shuld be withdrawn because she occasoionally reads the forum . Together with all references o blood ests , of course!
It is an impossible stance . There re many people posting here . Why don't we matter s much as those unknowns who "might " be upset by our "lack of sensiiviy.
I wonder hat such sensitive souls mabnage to eist on a day to day basis. If they really do exist.
Now don't get upset children. we re all friends really. Shouldn't you be in school anyhow?