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<blockquote data-quote="leahkian" data-source="post: 1674527" data-attributes="member: 32193"><p>If you do not tell people that you are a diabetic and something happens at work how are they to no what is wrong, i did hide my diabetes away when i first started out drinking but sometimes having a hypo can look like you are drunk. I had some good friends and always had something with me when i was out and a card saying i was a diabetic, if i was talking to a girl i would tell them that i was a diabetic as i had nothing to hide. The media paint diabetics as fat, lazy and that they have caused their own problems, well i got it when i was 3 so i had none of these but if you look on the news people with type 2 always seem to be reported as fat. The fact is no one asked to be a diabetic and most people do not want it but the only way forward is to educate people from a early age so the facts are out there. I have no problem talking about diabetes and the things that it has done to me as 30 years ago only children were the main age group for type one but now you can get it at anytime of life and yes it does effect the rest of your life. As there is no cure you either bury your head in the sand or try and make the best out of a bad illness and i know people say you do not no what it is like to get diabetes when your in your 20s and yes them people are right i was lucky i got it when i was 3 and by the time i had just turned 21 i had 3 years of eye problems and was told i would need a new kidney. If i had got it at 20 and had a normal life it would mean i would have had 18 years before i had ant problems, if a child gets cancer aged 3 and is still here when he is in his 20s you do not hear people saying you were lucky you got it at 3 i am 20 and have had a life. I am now 41 had a double transplant which showed the damage the diabetes had done over the 35 years i have had it and i am in worse shape than before the transplant but i have been unlucky, the people i feel sorry for are my children and parents who have had to watch me before the transplant and now after it. I feel guilty and angry that i cannot do the things that other dads can do but i will listen to anyone who has a problem with diabetes and try to help them with there lives, i mean i am not a diabetic at the minute but i am still under the care of a diabetic team. If you find it hard to tell anyone that you are a diabetic there are local diabetic groups all over the UK who you could talk to and ask them how they have did it. In the UK we need something that is on TV that explains the different types of diabetes, the problems of everyday life but also to clear up the people who get diabetes are all fat. Many people get diabetes and then see how different it is in real life and not what the papers say it is and their should be a mental health team who only deals with diabetes all over the UK as people who suffer wirh mental health problems and have diabetes do not no what diabetes entails so cannot relate to the person unless they have had the right training.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leahkian, post: 1674527, member: 32193"] If you do not tell people that you are a diabetic and something happens at work how are they to no what is wrong, i did hide my diabetes away when i first started out drinking but sometimes having a hypo can look like you are drunk. I had some good friends and always had something with me when i was out and a card saying i was a diabetic, if i was talking to a girl i would tell them that i was a diabetic as i had nothing to hide. The media paint diabetics as fat, lazy and that they have caused their own problems, well i got it when i was 3 so i had none of these but if you look on the news people with type 2 always seem to be reported as fat. The fact is no one asked to be a diabetic and most people do not want it but the only way forward is to educate people from a early age so the facts are out there. I have no problem talking about diabetes and the things that it has done to me as 30 years ago only children were the main age group for type one but now you can get it at anytime of life and yes it does effect the rest of your life. As there is no cure you either bury your head in the sand or try and make the best out of a bad illness and i know people say you do not no what it is like to get diabetes when your in your 20s and yes them people are right i was lucky i got it when i was 3 and by the time i had just turned 21 i had 3 years of eye problems and was told i would need a new kidney. If i had got it at 20 and had a normal life it would mean i would have had 18 years before i had ant problems, if a child gets cancer aged 3 and is still here when he is in his 20s you do not hear people saying you were lucky you got it at 3 i am 20 and have had a life. I am now 41 had a double transplant which showed the damage the diabetes had done over the 35 years i have had it and i am in worse shape than before the transplant but i have been unlucky, the people i feel sorry for are my children and parents who have had to watch me before the transplant and now after it. I feel guilty and angry that i cannot do the things that other dads can do but i will listen to anyone who has a problem with diabetes and try to help them with there lives, i mean i am not a diabetic at the minute but i am still under the care of a diabetic team. If you find it hard to tell anyone that you are a diabetic there are local diabetic groups all over the UK who you could talk to and ask them how they have did it. In the UK we need something that is on TV that explains the different types of diabetes, the problems of everyday life but also to clear up the people who get diabetes are all fat. Many people get diabetes and then see how different it is in real life and not what the papers say it is and their should be a mental health team who only deals with diabetes all over the UK as people who suffer wirh mental health problems and have diabetes do not no what diabetes entails so cannot relate to the person unless they have had the right training. [/QUOTE]
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