Heathenlass
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That would be all the riding, burning and pillaging .
(Note to self : In this life, remember - pillage then burn!
Signy
And I'll bet you (Ms Attila) were slim then too!
Pah!
And again I say PAH!
I only know Pitney.I think it is mainly about genes. There are lots of genes that can cause diabetes, and the more of them you have the likelier it is you develop it. If you on top of that also have insulin resistance of course it doesn't help, but insulin resistance isn't a requirement for diabetes. So you can get some diabetic genes from both parents who themselves didn't have developed it. And I wouldnt be surprised to hear of chemicals or pollutants that affect the pancreas/genes too as a cause.
I for example have no trace of fatty liver, normal weight, excellent cholesterol breakdown and low blood pressure. But I also have diabetes. I find it hard to be taken seriously by HCP because of this and add a (now) normal HbA1c they tend to overlook the fact that I am indeed diabetic.
Can do without the burning and pillaging.That would be all the riding, burning and pillaging .
(Note to self : In this life, remember - pillage then burn!)
Signy
Hmm. This is a bit like the discussion about the person who smoked 100 cigarettes a day and did not get lung cancer, but the person who never smoked gets it. These are the exceptions. I think there is lots of evidence that being overweight, eating all the wrong things, doing no exercise and building up fatty deposits in our liver and pancreas are definitely a contributing factors. But, it is also clearly also genetic and some people are simply predisposed, because as some of you have said, being overweight with bad habits is not the whole story - healthy slim people get it as well! Like many diseases we simply don't know why one person gets it and not another - but we do have some idea about who seems to be at risk!
Well I am scratching my head over my risk as it's not on the list of 'risks' you find on the internet. A few weeks ago I filled in a questionnaire online to tell me if I was at risk of diabetes...I passed with flying colours of having little or nor risk. That told me a lot! I have asked a lot of my family on both sides and we know of no one who had diabetes in our families and we know up to great grandparents. This leaves me to think I couldn't prevent my prediabetes at all. It just happened and I doubt I will ever know why.
are you?So you are one of the unfortunate people who are simply for some reason genetically predisposed ... despite apparently being low risk. I think this is the only explanation for you @SJC .
are you?
I think my previous-life crime must have been being boring.
This life, all my various physical irritants (aka 'health problems') have only one purpose - they make me soooo interesting.
To me, anyway.
By genetically predisposed, do you mean members of my family carried it? Well if that's the case, they were all very lucky and they didn't get diabetes and it skipped generations! I can't even think of an overweight relative on either side. I have had cancer and luckily that was found incidentally when they were looking for something else. I had been walking around with the cancer on my kidney for around six years they said!
Yes, I know what I did too, but I also know the reasons I did it. I was in no way to blame for the things that caused my depression which in turn caused my obesity. I was to blame for eating the wrong things and not exercising enough, but I couldn't find the will to get it right. I became morbidly obese because of it. I think I would rather have been a slim person who became diabetic for no reason than have all the years of hell becoming fat because I was depressed for a reason.I mean that while we are all genetically linked to our families we are all unique and individual - and the particular genetic combination that we have predisposes some of us and not others. Only identical twins are genetically identical. It would be very interesting to know if one twin has been diagnosed and not the other! By the way, I am NOT into the blame game - except for myself! I know what I did!
Yes, I know what I did too, but I also know the reasons I did it. I was in no way to blame for the things that caused my depression which in turn caused my obesity. I was to blame for eating the wrong things and not exercising enough, but I couldn't find the will to get it right. I became morbidly obese because of it. I think I would rather have been a slim person who became diabetic for no reason than have all the years of hell becoming fat because I was depressed for a reason.
Can do without the burning and pillaging.
You sound so honest and so brave zand - but from what you say you now understand why you were depressed, and from what I understand about depression understanding why we are depressed is the hardest part of the journey back to good mental health, and then to good physical health. We are all on a journey, and yours sounds particularly hard, but we are lucky to have the support we get from each other on this forum.
Well I am scratching my head over my risk as it's not on the list of 'risks' you find on the internet. A few weeks ago I filled in a questionnaire online to tell me if I was at risk of diabetes...I passed with flying colours of having little or nor risk. That told me a lot! I have asked a lot of my family on both sides and we know of no one who had diabetes in our families and we know up to great grandparents. This leaves me to think I couldn't prevent my prediabetes at all. It just happened and I doubt I will ever know why.
Wow.
Of course, as soon as I read this, I had to bustle off and find a Diabetes Risk Q'aire.
Amazingly, I am apparently at low risk
Low risk
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Apparently my waist size and weight don't even raise me into the 'raised risk' section of the chart.
But then, they didn't ask about my medication history, or previous BG warning signs, or any of the things that actually seem to factor in.
Priceless!
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