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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1722835" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yes, this is a subject very close to my own heart, recently, particularly since getting my life insured. When money is on the line all number of realities come to the fore! As a label is not just a label, it seems. It is also a prediction of too-early death, when it comes to medical labels of metabolic diseases in our case.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I was diagnosed as type two, and got my HBA1c down to prediabetic levels in the countries I have lived in since diagnosis and has been since for about three and a half years. I got them down without medication, and they have stayed there. I say exactly this when expressing my diabetes status.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">So I naievely thought that made me 'intermediate hyperglycemic' as prediabetes (here HBA!c 41-49 inclusive) is officially called in New Zealand. Or in official remission (as in stable for two years plus) from full-blown type two to having stable steady intermediate levels. That's what I thought! But I thought wrong. There is no official remission here in NZ. Once you are diagnosed as type two, that's it forever, apparently, as discussed above. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">When the insurance underwriters upped my insurance premiums times three, and there was nought a word in their assessment about intermediate anything, I realised I am type two still, just as if I had never gone from 93 to the low to mid 40s and stayed there, within six months post diagnosis. Still officially type two, with the same projected life-ending-too-early events, and a lowered life expectancy, is what it all means. My insurance agent managed to get them to merely double the premiums, which I understand, as he had met me, and I am clearly a fit middle-aged specimen. (I discussed this with him later.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I had a long convo with my otherwise wonderful GP about it. And yes, I am 'type two with tight controlled blood glucose', forever now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I do believe this is ridiculous labelling that does not acknowledge what people like us have done to improve our health. Genuinely improve, as reflected in weighing up the evidence from our blood lipid results. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But our 'generation' of folks with diabetes might be the ones who get this changed, and we have to continue to survive past what I believe is the outmoded predictions, in order to do that?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">No wonder you are confused about the labelling [USER=447630]@Chrisvw70_[/USER] , wondering how you refer to it yourself. It is a highly confusing and controversial topic.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1722835, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Yes, this is a subject very close to my own heart, recently, particularly since getting my life insured. When money is on the line all number of realities come to the fore! As a label is not just a label, it seems. It is also a prediction of too-early death, when it comes to medical labels of metabolic diseases in our case. I was diagnosed as type two, and got my HBA1c down to prediabetic levels in the countries I have lived in since diagnosis and has been since for about three and a half years. I got them down without medication, and they have stayed there. I say exactly this when expressing my diabetes status. So I naievely thought that made me 'intermediate hyperglycemic' as prediabetes (here HBA!c 41-49 inclusive) is officially called in New Zealand. Or in official remission (as in stable for two years plus) from full-blown type two to having stable steady intermediate levels. That's what I thought! But I thought wrong. There is no official remission here in NZ. Once you are diagnosed as type two, that's it forever, apparently, as discussed above. When the insurance underwriters upped my insurance premiums times three, and there was nought a word in their assessment about intermediate anything, I realised I am type two still, just as if I had never gone from 93 to the low to mid 40s and stayed there, within six months post diagnosis. Still officially type two, with the same projected life-ending-too-early events, and a lowered life expectancy, is what it all means. My insurance agent managed to get them to merely double the premiums, which I understand, as he had met me, and I am clearly a fit middle-aged specimen. (I discussed this with him later.) I had a long convo with my otherwise wonderful GP about it. And yes, I am 'type two with tight controlled blood glucose', forever now. I do believe this is ridiculous labelling that does not acknowledge what people like us have done to improve our health. Genuinely improve, as reflected in weighing up the evidence from our blood lipid results. But our 'generation' of folks with diabetes might be the ones who get this changed, and we have to continue to survive past what I believe is the outmoded predictions, in order to do that? No wonder you are confused about the labelling [USER=447630]@Chrisvw70_[/USER] , wondering how you refer to it yourself. It is a highly confusing and controversial topic.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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