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Type 2 - the lazy illness.

My husband said the exact same thing to me last week, and it quite upset me. As to your binge, I did the same thing yesterday. As I'm still mostly sick, my BG was low (4.5) so I had a small homemade cookie. Oh my, it was incredibly delish. And BG only went up 1 point (happy dance). So, sometimes the cheat is worth it.
 
I also find myself upset by other people’s attitudes towards type 2, both towards the seriousness of it and the ‘blame’ factor. I’m type 2 and yes, overweight although I have lost 5 stone since diagnosis. I have a sister-in-law who was diagnosed late (in middle age) as type 1. Recently, at a family gathering, this sister-in-law was answering someone’s question about the difference between the two types. She described type 2 as “the one overweight people get”. Slightly put-out, I said “not really, a lot of thin people can get it too”. She dismissed this with “well it is mostly”. On another occasion, I was speaking to another sister-in-law (her sister) who was trying to tell me that type 2 wasn’t serious. When I said it could indeed become very serious if not managed, she dismissed it with “well it’s not like your pancreas has totally packed in, is it?”
On both these occasions, I was dumbfounded and felt unable to respond adequately but each time I was left feeling my illness was considered insignificant and somehow my own fault.
To make matters worse, my husband still sticks his head in the sand re my diabetes. He just considers me to be on an annoying ‘fad’ diet - the low-carb, real-food way of eating I’ve been sticking with for 3 years.
I wish I’d known better how to respond to them. I still feel angry about it.
 
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People will know someone who has diabetes but not know which type, the papers make the best headline they can for sales and are not bothered if they put a stigma to type 2. ixi1 it seems that your husband does not want to deal with the illness you have or has only seen overweight people on the tv and thinks it is all about diet which it is not. I think you need to have a talk to him and maybe put a few facts to him as your children know more than him, he may get a shock one day if he comes home and you are in bed bad with your diabetes. He is in denial about the fact that you have diabetes or you could just give him salad all the time and get rid of all the things that have sugar in. The tell him you are just doing as you said and you are making healthy meals for all the family and if he likes a drink throw them out and tell him you are doing it for his own good, then he might listen more.
 
I've heard all sorts from friends, family and acquaintances. 'It's a lifestyle disease' 'he is so thin because he can't eat cheese' 'at least it's not the bad diabetes'. What's important is that we as the people with it (or those who are here because they are sharing the situation) know what matters. You will educate some people and not others. So long as you know, just keep doing it.
 
Just ignore the others.
 
I couldn't agree more. I used to work in a school and about 20 years ago when I first started a 5 year old child died of undiagnosed type 1 diabetes. I can never forget this. Also, speaking as a type 2 who has never been overweight and always fairly active, I get upset by the labels attached to me.
 

He/ she must have been one wicked soul
 
It seems that a few ex-footballers are fighting type2. Cannot name names, sorry. I'll let them stay anonymous for their sanity.
 
I got asked by someone who I thought was more intelligent whether falling off my horse had caused my LADA T1.
 
I always feel irritated when some condescending “perfect bodied” member of the public or Press point accusatory fingers at obese people. They have no idea what chemical imbalance could be the cause.
 
Learnt the hard way to stay silent on my conditions.
I have had a period in my life that I was always hungry and started to eat a lot, gained 20 kg.
Nobody diagnosed me that it could be impaired glucose tolerance, even if my GP had seed the borderline bloodbank exam results.
So I had a period of my life where I was fat, but was the symptom, not the cause.
 
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