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<blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 119061" data-attributes="member: 12578"><p>I've read your facebook page, I refuse to join facebook so I've put my comment here.</p><p> I spent the first year after getting diabetes pointing out the difference to anyone who would listen. As I wasn't a child when I got type 1 it (I was 54), even those people who knew something about diabetes assumed type 2. </p><p>The first person I met the day I came out of hospital after diagnosis said to me 'Oh you must have been eating too much of our good French food.' I was stick thin with an 'underweight' BMI. That really upset me. I've even had to esplain to other doctors that it is posible to get it at any age.</p><p> </p><p>But there are big problems . if we renamed type 1, what would we call all those other types of diabetes, for example MODY, or diabetes caused by other conditions. What about the person or even child who presents with both insulin resistance and insulin deficiency?</p><p> Reading the page I fell that many of the contributors know little about type 2. Type 1s are blameless, type 2s brought it on themselves because of their lifestyle . This is simplistic and not necessarily true. Type 2 is associated with being overweight in 8 out of 10 of cases, but the other 2 out of 10 are not overweight . As to the causes of type 2, well it certainly isn't clear what causes it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoenix, post: 119061, member: 12578"] I've read your facebook page, I refuse to join facebook so I've put my comment here. I spent the first year after getting diabetes pointing out the difference to anyone who would listen. As I wasn't a child when I got type 1 it (I was 54), even those people who knew something about diabetes assumed type 2. The first person I met the day I came out of hospital after diagnosis said to me 'Oh you must have been eating too much of our good French food.' I was stick thin with an 'underweight' BMI. That really upset me. I've even had to esplain to other doctors that it is posible to get it at any age. But there are big problems . if we renamed type 1, what would we call all those other types of diabetes, for example MODY, or diabetes caused by other conditions. What about the person or even child who presents with both insulin resistance and insulin deficiency? Reading the page I fell that many of the contributors know little about type 2. Type 1s are blameless, type 2s brought it on themselves because of their lifestyle . This is simplistic and not necessarily true. Type 2 is associated with being overweight in 8 out of 10 of cases, but the other 2 out of 10 are not overweight . As to the causes of type 2, well it certainly isn't clear what causes it. [/QUOTE]
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