For nearly two decades, TuDiabetes has been a place for people with diabetes to connect, learn, and support one another. We’re so grateful for the countless conversations, friendships, and resources built here.
As Beyond Type 1 has grown, so have the ways we connect our community.
That’s why over the next month and half, Beyond Type 1 will be transitioning away from the TuDiabetes forum and inviting all members to continue the journey with us on the Beyond Type 1 and Beyond Type 2 communities, where thousands of people are having meaningful conversations.
Oh no! I love this community and there are so many contributors who I know and trust. This is the first place I go when I have a question and want knowledgeable advice and opinions. I hope all you wise contributors will transition to the new forum if this one does end!
Will previous topics and conversations that were ever so helpful for many of us migrate to your new platform? If not, will this platform remain available in its current state? Users cannot rely on the WAYBACK MACHINE web archive which does NOT do a crawl on the site every day and thus misses some responses.
Sadly this sort of longform, information rich message board is a dinosaur. It’s a relic when the Internet was much more useful, where it was a magnet for expert obsessives. So many of these forums have disappeared. My most painful loss were the old Chowhound forums, which now only exists as fragmented archived posts on the Wayback Machine. The new owners couldn’t figure out how to monetize the content and eventually gave up. I’d bet that’s what could be happening here.
Well, “Dinosaurs” such as myself don’t do social media or “apps,” and the Beyond Diabetes thing seems to be mostly about lectures and articles. I use a cell phone for a cell phone, not for “apps,” and I use a keyboard to type, not a cell phone…so forum goes, that’s it for me.
I have been on this forum as a member since 2014. It took me awhile to join, but in 2010 it was from THIS forum that I learned about Frio packs out of the UK from a post in January 2010. This was knowledge that even my endocrinologist didn’t have. The Frio packs for my pump and insulin allowed me to go backpacking into the Grand Canyon for a week and allowed me to do more things as a T1D that I ever imagined like traveling for two months. Here’s to the next iteration of TuDiabetes and may they archive these posts so they can still be found!
The purpose of the change seems to be a further attempt to isolate T1s from T2s, to protect the virtuous and innocent T1s (suffering from illness) from the T2s, who are being justly punished for their uncontrolled weakness and bodily lusts.
The change will also make it more difficult for T1s and T2s occupied by similar problems to communicate effectively. For example, T1s and T2s who are both suffering from neuropathic pain will find in more difficult to communicate with each other, as will T1s and T2s wanting to discuss the their sometimes similar infections on their lower limbs, or T1s and T2s suffering from similar feelings of isolation.
Congratulations to the diabetes administrators (apparatchiks?) who have managed to invent yet a new way of dividing human beings from each other. Not an easy thing to do.
Thank you for your mail.
Such forums exist for diabetes in all developed countries and are active serve public and individual causes.
Congratulations for you and your channel/chapter and pray for success and be a beacon for such channels & sites.
Good luck
Devinder Sharma
THAT is why Type 1s (even if they won’t say it out loud) want to ve separate from T2s. Y’all like to talk crap, but we are, in FACT, the ones with an autoimmune disease.
Why do we have to file a new account you should be placing us on an account if it is a transition. Otherwise it looks like someone taking over the site by getting our information.
I don’t post much anymore, but was mistakenly diagnosed as a Type 2 several years ago only to learn recently that I am a Type 3C. Currently, I am treated more like a Type 2, but like a Type 1, will never be off insulin no matter how much weight I lose and may eventually be treated more like a Type 1.
This separation for people who need both like me isn’t helpful.
I have only once concern, and it is for others, not myself. I want all type 2s to know that a ketogenic diet frequently not only controls diabetes (my A1c is 5.5), but also has special low-carb cookies, candies, and cakes available for those who have a sweet tooth, like me. There is no need for a ketogenic diet to feel restrictive. I hope this information is not lost, because type 2 diabetes can easily result in the need for more drugs, with an increased risk for other illnesses to happen. Our society makes a high-carb diet too easy to become habitual, with diabetes, obesity, and other bad side effects.
As I become a senior citizen with Type 1 I have benefited a lot from the discussions with both Type 1’s and Type 2’s on tudiabetes.
I don’t feel like making a distinction with two completely independent websites is productive to me at my age.
A T1 who is a teenager or in college likely feels different. TBH it doesn’t feel like it was all that long ago I was in college and I can kinda feel that thought in my head.
