dbr10
Well-Known Member
Not clear where you mean.
Not clear where you mean.There was some sniping on this forum about Theresa May being diabetic.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/thr...or-in-the-general-election-2017.121591/page-7
There was another thread, which I will try to look for.
I read this last night on the BBC News website, I was curious what was wrong with her as I think before she gave the Guardian interview it was announced she was suffering from a serious health condition , and I think within 24 hours she had announced it officially. The BBC website after the article goes on to give info on Diabetes etc and the impression I got is that with Type 2 serious complications can arise if not managed with the assumption that Type 1 does not have the same complications , maybe I interpreted it wrong? Isnt the Prime Minister a wonderful example of how she copes with her type 1 and still wants to put herself as head of the country. I admire her resolve even if I do not necessarily agree with her politics .So, according to the Guardian, Diane Abbott has suffered from T2 for 2 years and this was the reason why she appears to be a complete idiot whenever she is interviewed.
Having followed her 'career' for many years I would like to know why she appeared to be an idiot before she had T2?
Perhaps she is just an idiot?
Not clear where you mean.
One point politicians,even PM's should realize and all of us should have learnt by our sixth decade of life is that to the British being hubristic makes us all fair game. However, if we can't carry it off 100% then we get the hard edge of the banter! In some nations it is quite the norm to like ourselves a lot but thankfully it has not been imported here. Some have eye trouble whereas others have I trouble!There was some sniping on this forum about Theresa May being diabetic.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/thr...or-in-the-general-election-2017.121591/page-7
There was another thread, which I will try to look for.
Personally I wish her all the very best and hope she can get some really great support similar to what I have experienced on this forum. I wonder whether anyone has taken the time to explain LCHF diet to her? Could get her off Insulin and resolve the fasting issues. Might actually help her manage her role in fact by not having carb lows but feeling energetic all of the time.
I do wish that she hadn't used T2 as a shield for her troubles though.
There is no question in my mind that the Diane Abbott answering those questions was not fully compos mentis compared to previous comments from her, regardless of whether I agree with any of them .
There were a number of strands put forward that suggest she has been put pretty quickly onto some very powerful drugs. it maybe of course be that her own particular diagnosis makes that inevitable, however we have all seen how easy it is to be sent don that route. it is precisely what was suggested to me on diagnosis day. It really was more by luck than judgement that I decided to do something different. Hopefully the publicity this has all received will help point her in the direction of LCHF
I am not judging her at all. She must do what is best for her and I hope she gets the right support. I have no opinion what caused her problems - and quite frankly that is her business.Well, you can judge her, but did you ever consider it might actually be a reason, and not an excuse?
I am not judging her at all. She must do what is best for her and I hope she gets the right support. I have no opinion what caused her problems - and quite frankly that is her business.
Perhaps she is just an idiot?
I don't know what she eats now, but there were references to glucose tablets which I assume also means insulin which seems quite unusual for a T2 diabetic diagnosed only two years ago.
Something doesn't seem to quite stack up - the comment on the illness and letting blood sugar get out of control through fasting - for one - fasting goes the other way. So that sounds like a person who has been recommended to eat carbs put on an insulin regime to do so, then having failed to eat carbs by inadvertent fasting whilst busy, suffered incidents of hypoglcaemia having not taken enough glucose tablets to offset the insulin.
My understanding was that for most of us insulin is much more likely to be later in the process and certainly not before diet and metformin have failed which I would expect takes a while to find out ? ?
To be honest, it wouldn't surprise me to find she is getting " special" i.e. accelerated treatment because of her position - if so its just as likely to be making things worse rather than better - I'm no expert but sometimes being treated as special can have its downsides!
I just hope she gets the advice she needs to control it properly.
High profile sufferers have so much potential to pave the way for treatment regimes to change compared to normal mortals because they have a audience.
Perhaps I could have expressed it better but my initial comment was largely prompted by anger that someone should use T2 as an excuse for behaving in a way that they have been behaving for decades, anger that someone who should know better would speak in this way of the condition.What is the purpose of this post? It appears to be just a nasty rant
Perhaps I could have expressed it better but my initial comment was largely prompted by anger that someone should use T2 as an excuse for behaving in a way that they have been behaving for decades, anger that someone who should know better would speak in this way of the condition.
If the truth is that she had been taking insulin and not eating as has been suggested, this goes way beyond being a little daft
you'd be surprised!She it seems like many here for one reason or another allowed her blood sugar levels to get out of control for a while, we all know how that can feel.
Oh and as to her being an idiot I do not think Cambridge have awarded very many degrees to idiots.
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