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-naming Type 1 diabees

Hold on, hold on; I'm a couch potato glutton and I'm Type 1 so where does that leave me?;)

We are all members of a club that no-one wants to belong to there is no hierarchy of diabetes; and the OP needs to deal with their own head and not with the general public's views real or imagined.

Alternatively, we change 'Type 1 Diabetes' to Type '10 Diabetes' cos you know, it's bigger.

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Dillinger
 
Dillinger said:
Hold on, hold on; I'm a couch potato glutton and I'm Type 1 so where does that leave me?;)
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Careful Dillinger, couch potatoes are full of carbs...

Dillinger said:
Alternatively, we change 'Type 1 Diabetes' to Type '10 Diabetes' cos you know, it's bigger
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Or how about Type 1 = Diabetes Gold?
 
I think we should all just get our heads around renaming this thing. I propose "Howard and Hilda"; after all, they were similar, but quite different?






Am I showing my age here?
 
AndBreathe said:
I think we should all just get our heads around renaming this thing. I propose "Howard and Hilda"; after all, they were similar, but quite different?






Am I showing my age here?
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Howard and Hilda oh no no no, I think something a lttle more upmarket like Tarquin or Quentin or even better still, Sharon and Tracey:wacky:
 
We could always keep the Type 1 name, because, you know, it isn't their fault.

But for all of us blobby, self indulgent, weak willed couch potato types... (Even the skinny, fit, active ones who don't slob yet) well, I think could come up with something a bit better than boring old Type 2...

How about

Epicurean diabetes
The Chocolate Lover's Appreciation Society
Exercise Resistant Diabetes
The Gluttoneers
Greed, Glucose and Girth
Hunger United
LaZy Boys and Girls (reclining chair an obligatory accessory)

We could start a poll... select the most popular, and petition the medical High Poohbahs for an international proclamation.
 
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Brunneria said:
We could always keep the Type 1 name, because, you know, it isn't their fault.

But for all of us blobby, self indulgent, weak willed couch potato types... (Even the skinny, fit, active ones who don't slob yet) well, I think could come up with something a bit better than boring old Type 2...

How about

Epicurean diabetes
The Chocolate Lover's Appreciation Society
Exercise Resistant Diabetes
The Gluttoneers
Greed, Glucose and Girth
Hunger United
LaZy Boys and Girls (reclining chair an obligatory accessory)

We could start a poll... select the most popular, and petition the medical High Poohbahs for an international proclamation.
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Great idea! I quite like the Greed Glucose and Girth one, that gets my vote. It would be good to do this and then have a study to see how many type 1's are more relaxed about the fact that we exist. Would they have less stress and therefore find their BG's easier to control? We could save the NHS so much money on drugs. We could be heroes instead of villains for a change.

OK, changing tack a little. I am a seriously obese type 2, there have been many factors that caused my weight gain, not just greed and laziness, but that's not the point of this post. I have been reading the various threads about the Newcastle diet, particularly about the 'Tonight' TV programme which was shown recently. Since that programme I have had 3 people say to me, ' Oh, you're diabetic, you just need to do that diet for 8 weeks and then you will be cured' Well, I tried a similar very low cal diet (600 cals) 3 years ago and I'm still diabetic. I am not cured. I tried so hard to lose weight while I was still pre-diabetic, and no-one else told me I was pre-diabetic, I worked it out for myself. I did my best to turn things around for myself, yet still failed to do so. So when ignorant people tell me it's easy to cure myself, I feel hurt because they are judging me and don't know the truth.

So, the point of this post is that yes, I am a fat type 2, but thanks to this Tonight TV programme I now have a little understanding of how some type 1's feel when they are lumped together with us. (I only said a 'little understanding' please don't bombard me with messages telling me type 1's aren't to blame for their diabetes at all - I fully accept that.)

As someone else has already said ...whatever the label, we are all in this together....please can we stand united not divided?
 
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All this made me laugh so much I got a pain I so hoped I was type 1 mainly as i had no help with insulin and wasn't allowed on any courses only ever told stop eating when I was starving myself and after reading these posts I am proud to be type 2 don't know why just hit me we not only have to deal with diabetes we also have the guilt, condescension lack of care in my case .The people who care about me only want me to be well and don't care about the number (I still would like to stuff a sandwich in my dns face,the one who told me to eat salads all the time) and exercise more my god if I do more i won't get time to sleep ( big family) however we can still laugh at ourselves and we have to try so hard Hunger intolerant is my contribution to the renaming
 
I'm thinking something similar to milk classification in the UK.

Obviously Type 2 would be full fat or blue top as that's the only possible reason for it as proven by the media.

Type 1 would obviously have to be the Gold top of diabetes as we didn't ask for it and didn't deserve it. My classification doesn't stand up to scrutiny here as gold top is extra fat and creamy whereas all Type 1's are without doubt super skinny so should really be red top. Gold sounds so much more appropriate for all our extra suffering ;)
 
Flowerpot said:
I'm thinking something similar to milk classification in the UK.

Obviously Type 2 would be full fat or blue top as that's the only possible reason for it as proven by the media.

Type 1 would obviously have to be the Gold top of diabetes as we didn't ask for it and didn't deserve it. My classification doesn't stand up to scrutiny here as gold top is extra fat and creamy whereas all Type 1's are without doubt super skinny so should really be red top. Gold sounds so much more appropriate for all our extra suffering ;)
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lol :p
 
this is too difficult said:
I read this often and wonder. I only know 3 type ones and none of them are thin. Not overly
fat but certainly not thin
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Well, they are skinny compared with me.
Almost everyone is skinny compared with me.
Poor wee stick creatures.
How do they not break when bumping into things? Or having sex? Or hugging?
It is very puzzling.
 
Come and join me on the naughty diabetics step for those of us who are rather too wide for their height...:)

I actually quite like being a bit to bonny too, as I was a very skinny child - my father used to make fun of of me saying I looked like something out of Belsen (one of the Nazi concentration camps from WW2 for those who may not know)... I wonder now whether my size is a delayed reaction to his (rather thoughtless) comments! I didn't actually start to be a reasonable weight until after i was married and on the pill, and only gradually got to be so wide and cuddly when I neared retirement age and stopped having to rush about so much.

Robbity
 
spills 12 said:
I have been a Type 1 diabetic for nearly 40 years and have managed to keep very good control--so far having no complications. My reason for this blog is to get opinions on petitioning to get a name change for Type 1 diabetes. I find that I am frequently asked the question "were you very fat?". My reply is that I have always been very slim. The problem is that the general public do not seem to understand that Type 1 diabetes is totally different from Type 2. There is so much written in the media about Diabetes being a lifestyle choice and it is not understood that there are various forms of the disease.I think it would be so much less confusing if Type 1 Diabetes could be renamed and would cause us Type 1's less stress in being thought of as coach potato gluttons.
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Dislike.
 
Brunneria said:
We could always keep the Type 1 name, because, you know, it isn't their fault.

But for all of us blobby, self indulgent, weak willed couch potato types... (Even the skinny, fit, active ones who don't slob yet) well, I think could come up with something a bit better than boring old Type 2...

How about

Epicurean diabetes
The Chocolate Lover's Appreciation Society
Exercise Resistant Diabetes
The Gluttoneers
Greed, Glucose and Girth
Hunger United
LaZy Boys and Girls (reclining chair an obligatory accessory)

We could start a poll... select the most popular, and petition the medical High Poohbahs for an international proclamation.
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Do you have any idea how much it would cost for me to have:

" DIABETIC . II's Not My Fault, It's An Autoimmune Thing And Anyway I Hate Pies.Now Bog Off ! Please ! "

engraved on my SOS Talisman ???

Signy
 
Brunneria said:
Well, they are skinny compared with me.
Almost everyone is skinny compared with me.
Poor wee stick creatures.
How do they not break when bumping into things? Or having sex? Or hugging?
It is very puzzling.
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That's because most thin Type 1's are so wary of snapping, we wear padded protective underwear, thus resembling Oompah Loompahs. So that's how we don't break. Unfortunately, the side effect are that we DO bump into things a lot, and are so wide in circumference we rarely get hugs, or errr ,the other thing .;)

So really , it IS our own fault we are constantly confused with Type 2's all the time :eek:

So now having broken the code of secrecy that all Type 1's are required to swear to,- the reason I have done this and risk ritual whipping with a kipper, is to say that whether Type 1 or Type 2, we are all people underneath;)

And of course, if we "Come Out" and shed the padding - there's the possibility of hugs. And errr, the other thing :D

Signy
 
Heathenlass said:
That's because most thin Type 1's are so wary of snapping, we wear padded protective underwear, thus resembling Oompah Loompahs. So that's how we don't break. Unfortunately, the side effect are that we DO bump into things a lot, and are so wide in circumference we rarely get hugs, or errr ,the other thing .;)

So really , it IS our own fault we are constantly confused with Type 2's all the time :eek:

So now having broken the code of secrecy that all Type 1's are required to swear to,- the reason I have done this and risk ritual whipping with a kipper, is to say that whether Type 1 or Type 2, we are all people underneath;)

And of course, if we "Come Out" and shed the padding - there's the possibility of hugs. And errr, the other thing :D

Signy
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Hugs.
 
Heathenlass said:
That's because most thin Type 1's are so wary of snapping, we wear padded protective underwear, thus resembling Oompah Loompahs. So that's how we don't break. Unfortunately, the side effect are that we DO bump into things a lot, and are so wide in circumference we rarely get hugs, or errr ,the other thing .;)

So really , it IS our own fault we are constantly confused with Type 2's all the time :eek:

So now having broken the code of secrecy that all Type 1's are required to swear to,- the reason I have done this and risk ritual whipping with a kipper, is to say that whether Type 1 or Type 2, we are all people underneath;)

And of course, if we "Come Out" and shed the padding - there's the possibility of hugs. And errr, the other thing :D

Signy
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Dont worry - your secret is safe with me!

And when you've finished with that kipper, may I eat it? With clotted cream and a dab of horseradish? :wacky:

You can have a bit, if you like. Cos you obviously need feeding up! ;)
 
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