Would you take a cure if it became available? Curious?

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If it really did work them maybe but Honestly I would say no I'm on a pump and it's part of my life sure u get hi and low but I can't think of anything I could do if I didn't have diabetes that I can't do already
 
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bobandpat

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No problem here, I'd say yes please as soon as asked. ;)

No more repeat prescriptions to pick up bi-monthly. :D

The doc could forget I exist. The only time I see them is something to do with the diabetes. :happy:
 
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buckley8219

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Haha.

Would I take up a cure for a lifelong chronic condition that has serious implications for life expectancy and quality of life.

My diabetes doesn't bother me much these days but I'd still give a limb (excuse the pun) to be rid of it.

E.g. We can cure your diabetes but we have to cut your leg off to do so...

I honestly think I'd give up the leg Hahha.

No more worries about complications, hypos, seeing food as numbers. Mood swings and just generally never feeling 100%... It's the relentlessness of diabetes I hate and the feeling that won't go away and that it will have you in the end despite years of tight control.

I'd ensure I had a very good prosthetic of course.
 
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Amsjadee

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I would have to think about it a lot and it would depend how long I had had diabetes.
 

cymraes

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I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in April 1972 & the spectre of hypos, hypers, retinopathy, kidney failure, amputation, insulin-resistance etc is always lurking in the background so, yes, if a cure was offered, I would jump at it! However, as other people have commented, any cure should be offered to children in the first instance - the benefit to them would be greater.
 
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buckley8219

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If it really did work them maybe but Honestly I would say no I'm on a pump and it's part of my life sure u get hi and low but I can't think of anything I could do if I didn't have diabetes that I can't do already

Erm..

Join the police force, join the military. Become a commercial pilot.

Have a child without worrying about passing on a genetically linked chronic Condition.

Have total freedom in terms of diet and exercise.

Pretty sure I'd have gone to Sandhurst after college and had a pilots licence by now if it wasn't for being Type 1.

Be able to get a decent life insurance policy... Etc etc etc.

Having a 10 year licence instead of a three year restricted driving licence..

Being able to give blood.

I know diabetes isn't the end of the world and it doesn't impact all areas.

But to say it doesn't place any limitations seems abit short sighted.
 
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SandyDee

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YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!! Can you imagine being able to go out without a bag full of coke, glucogel and testing kit, not having to constantly worry about making a total prat of myself when hypo (no warnings), being able to drive again, being able to have sex without having to stop halfway to check my blood sugars and drink some coke, not have to face the possibility of blindness, limb loss and all the other lovely complications. After 29 years it would be strange but Yes!
Having said that I was considered for an Islet Transplant and because of the issues involved I was not sure. Swapping insulin for anti-rejection drugs didn't seem much of a deal, also having to constantly worry about infections and staying out of sun because of increased cancer risk certainly gave me a lot to think about, plus of course it doesn't last forever and unlike places like the US the NHS has limited the amount of ops you can have. I would have only got about 6-8 years and with the risks involved I think I was a bit relieved when they refused me.
 
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dunelm

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Yes - then I could get back to sampling beer.

Can "they" also cure my arthritis, failing eyesight, servere back pain in L1 and L2, night spasms in my legs and feet as well as male pattern baldness.
 

Eldorado

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YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!! Can you imagine being able to go out without a bag full of coke, glucogel and testing kit, not having to constantly worry about making a total prat of myself when hypo (no warnings), being able to drive again, being able to have sex without having to stop halfway to check my blood sugars and drink some coke, not have to face the possibility of blindness, limb loss and all the other lovely complications. After 29 years it would be strange but Yes!
Oh dear do you really have to stop halfway thru? I'm really sorry but that did make me laugh! A medicinal chocolate bar is called for. First.
 

SandyDee

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Oh dear do you really have to stop halfway thru? I'm really sorry but that did make me laugh! A medicinal chocolate bar is called for. First.
Not always, but quite often. My partner usually knows first when I start laughing at him!
I had a young, funky diabetes specialist nurse when I was diagnosed and she said to keep a mars bar by the bed, being young and naive I was mortified by the very idea. The first time I had sex post-diagnosis I was terrified.
 
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Eldorado

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Not always, but quite often. My partner usually knows first when I start laughing at him!
I had a young, funky diabetes specialist nurse when I was diagnosed and she said to keep a mars bar by the bed, being young and naive I was mortified by the very idea. The first time I had sex post-diagnosis I was terrified.
Are you old enough to remember the Marianne Faithful, Rolling Stones mars bar furore back in the sixties? Lol!
 
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buckley8219

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Haha no. I'm a child of the 80s.

But I'm familiar with the story ha ha.
 

Anaelena

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There are so many comparatives to this question one I can think of is much like being in a bad relationship :))) sometimes you become so use to the dysfunction it creates in your life . Of course , I doubt anyone will say yes I want this toxin in my life but when you lived more of your life with it , it can be scary to break free from it . I would want a cure yes . I do wonder also when there is a cure what will happen to those of us with severe complications ? Diabetes will go away but we will not all be cured. The other factor is "control" we use this word and diabetes so much that after being in "control" it will still seem so strange not to know where sugars are at . We have learned to rely on machines not our bodies and for some of us that is s big change . So a cure for newer diabetics would solve so much and for us oldies it will be a blessing , I just don't think a cure will be the end of it for some of us:))
 
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Eldorado

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There are so many comparatives to this question one I can think of is much like being in a bad relationship :))) sometimes you become so use to the dysfunction it creates in your life . Of course , I doubt anyone will say yes, I want this toxin in my life but when you lived more of your life with it , it can be scary to break free from it . I would want a cure yes . I do wonder also when there is a cure what will happen to those of us with severe complications ? Diabetes will go away but we will not all be cured. The other factor is "control" we use this word and diabetes so much that after being in "control" it will still seem so strange not to know where sugars are at . We have learned to rely on machines not our bodies and for some of us that is s big change . So a cure for newer diabetics would solve so much and for us oldies it will be a blessing , I just don't think a cure will be the end of it for some of us:))
Good points. I like your analogy of the bad relationship. That's just spot on. Unfortunately!
 

ElyDave

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I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in April 1972 & the spectre of hypos, hypers, retinopathy, kidney failure, amputation, insulin-resistance etc is always lurking in the background so, yes, if a cure was offered, I would jump at it! However, as other people have commented, any cure should be offered to children in the first instance - the benefit to them would be greater.
Why do you say that?

There are a lot of adult T1s that find the condition significantly affects their livelihoods or restricts them from things they used to do pre-diagnosis, particularly when you are a late onset.

Personally I don't think there should be any distinction
 

tim2000s

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Why do you say that?

There are a lot of adult T1s that find the condition significantly affects their livelihoods or restricts them from things they used to do pre-diagnosis, particularly when you are a late onset.

Personally I don't think there should be any distinction
I agree. If there is a cure then everyone should get it, and in reality, if you are an adult, you are far nearer to complications than a child and should receive it first. That would significantly reduce the overall costs to the NHS.
 
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andyk119

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It'd definitely take a while to adjust, but I definitely wouldn't object if the offer was on the table!