Things That Will Not Cure My Type One Diabetes

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(Though I will gladly eat my words should one of these turn out to be a cure, somehow.)

  • Your special herbal supplements
  • Your magical fruit juice, which comes deep from the deepest darkest crevices of South America/Asia/etc
  • Your prayers
  • Your super cool diet suggestions
  • Having me eat nothing but meat and vegetables
  • Whatever Halle Berry claims to have done.
  • Exercise
  • Never eating sugar again (also, this did not cause my type one diabetes…or any diabetes ever)
  • Pills that are shown in commercials during the day in the middle of the week
  • Pills that were promised to work in an email forward that your very knowledgeable co-worker sent you.
  • Wilford Brimley
  • Weight loss on my behalf
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I hear ya. I am T2 but that goes for me too. NO weight loss, food, pill or anything will make it go away. I have T2 because it runs in my family plus I had gestational that led to it. It is a part of me and I had to learn to except it instead of miracle cures. Just treat it and live the way I should.

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@ Cathy - Right. I don’t understand why insulin is always the last solution when it comes to suggestions to help with diabetes.

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@Bec - positive thinking only cures sad and depressing thoughts. Heh. It does not, and cannot, revive a pancreas.

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Love it! Aye, aye!

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Lauren,
I believe that you are right on all counts, though when it comes to the third one, prayers, people will keep trying that approach. Just in case… (just my belief, and I am FAR from being a religious person!)

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Hi Lauren-- i hope that you are wrong :wink: But until proven otherwise, you’re right!!

But some of the things you listed can make LIVING with type 1 diabetes easier. Until there is a cure, that’s all I can hope for!!

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@ Kristin - Haha, right. But those things keep getting put to me as “legitimate” cures.

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Yes, I know. I find it incredibly frustrating as well!!!

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@ Rick - those are fantastic! Though, I do wish that eating a bunch of Flintstones vitamins (the only vitamin worth chewing on, frankly) and drinking a lot of diet coke (or Tab) would cure diabetes.

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@Sarah M - Heee! What if Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Toothfairy and all of the characters from Grimm’s Fairytales held a Diabetes awareness concert? Then collectively yelled at all of the malfunctioning pancreases (pancreaii? pancreas’?) of the world, resurrected the dinosaurs, created unicorns and got billboards up about the cause in every major metropolitian area? :slight_smile: It could totally work!

(4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 - maybe if we enter those into a mysterious terminal over and over for a few days it would calculate a cure. Unless Ben some how thwarts the whole operation. Damn him.)

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@ Sarah, you know I always wondered that! Also, Rose (less shown character) had some kind of cancer and was cured on the island. I should totally find that island and eat sand from it. Or lick that big magic rock thing all the characters are crazy about?

I can totally reserve the venue! I’m also thinking that Bret Michaels should play a little ditty. Maybe something about how he heroically uses the powers of male sluttiness to cope with his diabetes?

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I don’t know… ben did get cancer. But i blame ben for all the bad stuff that happens on the island. If ben is on the island then sadly no our diabetes wouldn’t be cleared. You have to remember what’s her face still had asthma, and Jack even had to get his appendix taken out… so no i don’t think we would be lucky :frowning:
OH i hope hurly doesn’t donate his money to any diabetes funds… o.O

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That’s right! I had forgotten about Ben’s cancer! Do you suppose he got cancer because he kept leaving the island? Or maybe the island was giving him cancer because, deep down, the island hates Ben?

And yeah, Hurley needs to stay far away from diabetes research foundations. Or a plane might fall on us diabetics. ALL of us. taps nose