‘It seems the ADA is purposely trying to make sure no one but people with diabetes understand diabetes. Even then, they’ve made it so confusing by changing the names twice in less than 30 years (Juvenile DM to IDDM to T1DM).’
Although I don’t doubt the US has a great influence you can’t blame the ADA entirely, the names are defined internationally by a commitee of the World Health Organisation.
This is why it’s so important for us as diabetics to keep the conversation going. No matter hoe many years doctors or nurses go to school the best education comes from us (diabetics). Just my opinion!
I think that Type Two has become the face of diabetes - even with the medical crowd. I think most automatically assume that when you say, as an adult, “Hey I have diabetes” that you have type two. I get that from everyone - from people at work to my in-laws. It’s all very well meaning, but it can get irritating to have to explain how I don’t take pills, don’t make insulin on my own and actually can eat sugary snacks so long as I take a dose of insulin to make up for it.
My doctor told me I was type 2 .I told her that I didn’t fit the type 2 ,metformin orther oral drugs had no effect on me.
She told me ;type 1 was juvenile diabetes and thats the kind kids and young adults get and type2 is what adults get…
I told her that I wanted a GAD test for antibodies ; “I must be going through my second childhood because this sure enough isn’t type 2 diabetes.”
The test came back ,I wasn’t type 2. Iwish I was …It would make dealing with the medical community much easier.
Someone told me ; " Your to skinny to be a diabetic."
I said :" let me tell you a secret “and I whispered in their ear " I have a fat person on the inside trying to get out.”
another time someone said ;“I thought only kids had Type 1.”
I replied ; “It’s the child in me that has it ,I don’t but since he won’t take his insulin ,I have to …”
Yet another time a person said ; “No, you’re not a diabetic!”
I said;" I said Thank you ,Thank you, I’ve been healed!!!
The point of this is we have to deal with ignorance all around us. I just rather make a joke and laugh than get upset.
Thanks for the smiles, Joe! Love them. Am going to steal these the next time someone tells me I’m too thin & too old!
So a Type 2 can really go that long without insulin??? Wow My Hubby has been diagnosed (not obese) for about 6 or 7 years now and has been on insuling for at least 4 or 5 of them. Since finding this site I have urged him Constantly to have his Endo do a C-Peptide test and a GAD test (although I don’t know what the norms should be for both of those, or what levels would push him into a 1.5 or MODY type of diabetes). I still have a ton of learning to do for this.
Joe those are awesome!!! I agree making a joke is a great way to deal with things. The reason many jokes are funny is there sometimes some truth in them. I love the inner child one!!!
Norman Cousin in 1964 healed himself from a painful disease that the doctors told him that his odds of getting better was 1 in 500. Cousin said;"I knew ,if I was going to get better,I would have to take an active role in my treatment."
Cousin did three things to get better:
Laughter won’t cure our diabetes but it does help us cope with the pain . It can help relieve the stress ;which we know can make diabetes worse.
Proverbe17:22 A merry heart doth good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
" Laughter is medicine even to the morrow of the bones"
So have a good belly laugh!!!