Sory to see you go peebles but I can empathise why!
You right in so many ways...
I've never expected anybody to feel sorry for me, nor have I demanded that society as a whole has to understand my condition nor do I try to lay the blame on somebody's else's door step..
Perhaps my attitude comes from when I was diagnosed you just had to get on with it all, as support really wasn't that easily available... So that there wasn't any heading of to the internet to have all your sorrow compounded and extended by others...
Some of the comments made to Peebles OP, actually underpins what does happen on this forum...
If you'll not full of doom and gloom, willing to promote a extreme restriction of carbs or support the theory that our HPC's are killing us with the wrong advice and it's all their fault and not our own! You just ain't welcome on the forum and any information you can give is totally and utterly useless...
It's strange to be attacked and accusations made that I am a poorly controlled diabetic as I use a insulin pump and use far too much medication and riddled with complications...
When I've been diabetic for 23 years, don't have any complications the only medication I take is insulin of which I use on average 18 units a day in total... Yet I eat a normal healthy diet control wise a HbA1c of 5.7% (tested last week) 4 mild hypo's (3.7's) last month so tight control... Oh yes the pump, is needed as I suffer from Dawn p and Evening p, which injecting background insulin twice a day couldn't resolve, also I'm pretty sensitive to insulin and 1 unit of insulin will drop my BG by 7mmol/l so using a standard insulin pen or syringe that min dose is 1 unit or if you'll extremely lucky it does a 0.5 isn't practical...