Anyone else find there is a complete lack of understanding about type 1 diabetes ? No one understands what it's like to live with and everyone thinks it's something you've bought on yourself and confuses it with the diabetes there mom, dad and uncle have got ! Bloody frustrating !
When i wad newly diagnosed - my friends kept on asking me if it's because i like sugar....
I would say there's definitely a lack of understanding, I wouldn't agree with the rest of the sttament though.Anyone else find there is a complete lack of understanding about type 1 diabetes ? No one understands what it's like to live with and everyone thinks it's something you've bought on yourself and confuses it with the diabetes there mom, dad and uncle have got ! Bloody frustrating !
Had to laugh at a few posts on here at people losing it and being frustrated by other peoples lack of understanding of their condition. The day I get annoyed about having to tell someone how T1 & T2 are different is the day I eat my hat. Why do people get annoyed in the first place? Why not take the opportunity to give someone some enlightenment about something they don't know and be happy your sharing awareness of your condition, instead of going around with a chip on there shoulder's ready to chew the ******** off someone, dare they get the two mixed up.
Possibly because if they're newly diagnosed and scared the last thing they want to be told by an instant expert is that it's their own fault because they eat too much sugar or because they're too fat? Or because one of the side effects of wonky diabetic blood sugars can be irritability, and (again!) if they're scared or frustrated the last thing that they want is to be misunderstood? I think it sort of comes into the same category as treating a deaf person like an imbecile when they've not heard you the first time... One doesn't imply the other.Had to laugh at a few posts on here at people losing it and being frustrated by other peoples lack of understanding of their condition. The day I get annoyed about having to tell someone how T1 & T2 are different is the day I eat my hat. Why do people get annoyed in the first place? Why not take the opportunity to give someone some enlightenment about something they don't know and be happy your sharing awareness of your condition, instead of going around with a chip on there shoulder's ready to chew the ******** off someone, dare they get the two mixed up.
Had to laugh at a few posts on here at people losing it and being frustrated by other peoples lack of understanding of their condition. The day I get annoyed about having to tell someone how T1 & T2 are different is the day I eat my hat. Why do people get annoyed in the first place? Why not take the opportunity to give someone some enlightenment about something they don't know and be happy your sharing awareness of your condition, instead of going around with a chip on there shoulder's ready to chew the ******** off someone, dare they get the two mixed up.
I pretend I'm rich and have girls chasing me, but that's not getting me anywhere either. Lucky you are still in honeymoon, it gives you a buffer with your BG, or you could be in hospital by now with DKA.Someone please help me I haven't been taking my insulin for days and I haven't tested either and I'm getting so bad I pretend I don't have diabetes I need to be inspired to look after myself and this horrible illness
Had to laugh at a few posts on here at people losing it and being frustrated by other peoples lack of understanding of their condition. The day I get annoyed about having to tell someone how T1 & T2 are different is the day I eat my hat. Why do people get annoyed in the first place? Why not take the opportunity to give someone some enlightenment about something they don't know and be happy your sharing awareness of your condition, instead of going around with a chip on there shoulder's ready to chew the ******** off someone, dare they get the two mixed up.
Someone please help me I haven't been taking my insulin for days and I haven't tested either and I'm getting so bad I pretend I don't have diabetes I need to be inspired to look after myself and this horrible illness
@haylz2002 This is understandable and we all feel like ignoring it but if you do there are consequences.Someone please help me I haven't been taking my insulin for days and I haven't tested either and I'm getting so bad I pretend I don't have diabetes I need to be inspired to look after myself and this horrible illness
Had to laugh at a few posts on here at people losing it and being frustrated by other peoples lack of understanding of their condition. The day I get annoyed about having to tell someone how T1 & T2 are different is the day I eat my hat. Why do people get annoyed in the first place? Why not take the opportunity to give someone some enlightenment about something they don't know and be happy your sharing awareness of your condition, instead of going around with a chip on there shoulder's ready to chew the ******** off someone, dare they get the two mixed up.
No you have that totally wrong, I always have time to explain.........unfortunately some people just don't listen / understand..... That's what upsets me........Perhaps I am just no good at explaining, I am not perfect.....
Being constantly upset by others ignorance of what Type 1 can be like to live with at times, when you work at it / live with it twenty four seven, train hard, eat well, consistently achieve hbA1c's sub 6% and after just a few years diagnosis find out you have changes occurring on retina screening, that is upsetting...... People think you inject a few times a day and all is well, or if you get complication you don't look after yourself.....unfortunately some people just have bad luck !!!
Comments like "god I thought you were the fittest person I new" HURT....I probably am the fittest person they know....... I loved my sport pre diabetes and I am certainly not going to let diabetes stop me doing anything I want to do, I enjoy the additional challenges it brings, but it would be nice if people understood that.......I certainly don't have a chip on my shoulder and am a very happy bubbly person, the difference is I don't go around judging others about things I know nothing about.........That's why I do't suffer fools gladly!!
There's a lack of understanding about diabetes per se, I honestly think it's difficult to understand what it's like to live with diabetes until you develop the condition, but much could be said about any other medical condition I suppose.
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