Man! I was just on YouTube watching a funny video by a diabetic kid explaining his condition with a rap and started reading the comments. One just got me all riled up! It said,
"It's a fact that diabetics don't feel pain like normal people. When they feel pain, it's like a heart attack."
I was like, REEEEEEAALY??? Why don't you try getting educated before you open your ignorant face and state something is a fact when in reality it is an outright fabrication.
Ignorance pisses me off. heh.
"you'll shoot your eye out, kid"
No, but really the one phrase that irks me the most whenever I'm about to bolus is "Are you giving yourself sugar?" I know I've posted that quote in another similar thread, but I can't understand what makes someone think that you needing to give "sugar" to counteract sugar/carbs makes everything alright...oh wait, they don't know what they're talking about and probably just like hearing the sound of their own voice...perhaps they stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
/educate yourselves before sounding off, you non-diabetics of the world
when I test my blood sugar people are like what are you doing? I'm like I'm testing my BS ppl just laugh cause the don't understand They should really learn that diabetes is not funny and should atleast read up on it before they say stupid stuff like that.. Whats wrong with people in the world these days??
Yesterday I was wearing a "walk to cure diabetes" shirt from 2008 and my friend came up to me and told me she saw a show about someone with diabetes except "she had juvee diabetes, unlike you".
Not sure if this is already posted on here (my pudding-low-brain [I say pudding because that's what I treated with... not the best choice, either. But it was lemon, and I enjoyed it, and that's what matters tonight.], but one of the small things that bothers me is when people say, "Do you need to check your blood pressure?" I often correct them: "sugar, not pressure."
I also dislike when people offer both: eating or insulin. I would rather they ask, when I tell them a blood sugar situation, "Now, what does that mean?" so I have the opportunity to explain it instead of getting to play 'multiple choice: what does Alyssa need?'
Another note on that (to make my 500th post - woohoo!) last bit I wrote: I believe one can learn a lot more from having something explained to them than repeated at them . I can tell someone a million times low means food, and high means insulin; but it won't take on the same meaning for them as it does when I explain it.
People say stupid things, and most unfortunatly are ignorant to what we have to go through. I've definitely heard some weird things myself over the years. Most people can't believe I eat as much as I do being a diabetic, when I was in Japan, a country I found to be complely ignornat to diabetis, no one knew anything about it when I tried to explain it, my host family I stayed with could not belive my appetite. I just thought the food was amazing tho :)
Hey, Michael: ya got the insulin for it? Eat it! (my motto anyway)
(kidding, but haha)
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People say stupid things, and most unfortunatly are ignorant to what we have to go through. I've definitely heard some weird things myself over the years. Most people can't believe I eat as much as I do being a diabetic, when I was in Japan, a country I found to be complely ignornat to diabetis, no one knew anything about it when I tried to explain it, my host family I stayed with could not belive my appetite. I just thought the food was amazing tho :)
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I was diagnosed in Japan! Luckily the doctors at the base hospital knew about it. I was introduced to Teryaki chicken on one of my first days there. Also the Asian Pears or PearApples as we called them are amazing.
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Man! I was just on YouTube watching a funny video by a diabetic kid explaining his condition with a rap and started reading the comments. One just got me all riled up! It said,
"It's a fact that diabetics don't feel pain like normal people. When they feel pain, it's like a heart attack."
I was like, REEEEEEAALY??? Why don't you try getting educated before you open your ignorant face and state something is a fact when in reality it is an outright fabrication.
Ignorance pisses me off. heh.
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I saw a youtube comment to a video like this once that said it could be cured if ate an all vegan diet!
I got a sports physical at school and I walked over to the nurse to get my blood pressure checked and she asked if i had any medical problems so i said i had type 1. She then asks "are you taking insulin" i almost replied "no, im taking this new chinese herbal tea" but caught myself. I mean, she was a nurse for goodness sakes. Then the doctor examined me and felt my omnipod on my back and on the medical form he checked normal in all the body part boxes except back where he wrote "insulin pump" under abnormal. I laughed.
Sorry this is slightly off-topic, but ... I had a good friend that I met at summer camp growing up who was from Japan and Type 1. When I visited her in Tokyo, it was so strange how her family treated it. She never brought her insulin out with her (even to dinner!!) because she was embarrassed. Her parents required her to tell them every BS she had (she was around 18 or 20 then), so she stopped testing. Now, this may just be her family so I don't want to stereotype, but I always feel worried for her!!
"FIVE TIMES A DAY?!? HE HAS TO INJECT FIVE TIMES A DAY?!? CAN'T THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT?!?" That has to have been my favorite response. Especially since it was repeated several times in complete disbelief. And, the facial expression was priceless. 'Cause, you know, nobody's been working on that. (Okay, getting a wee bit political...this came from a staunch Republican....who supported Bush...who decimated stem-cell research in the US...done with politics now).
Also, the whole "party thing". Yes, he can have cake and ice cream, we just adjust his dose. His birthday party was just last weekend, and I was feeling bad for my friend whose daughter has a severe (life-threatening) dairy allergy, 'cause we were serving ice cream and she has to bring their own non-dairy cupcakes to birthday parties. Along with an epi-pen in case a child who's touched a diary food happens to touch her daughter. Compared to my friend, we've got it easy.
And, my MIL (who has T2) telling us we need to get "sugar free" everything. "Fake" foods give me the heebeejeebees like nothing else. I'll pass on the GMO sugar-like substances, thank you very much, and stick to small amounts of the real stuff. Now, you really want to drive his numbers through the roof, try Mexican food. "It's not the sugar, it's the carbs" has become my mantra. And we've been at this less than two months.
Mo
"If they go near sugar or even smell it they'll DIE!!!11!!!!!one11!!1eleven!1
I kid you not.
ah yes, my respond to this: Kendra. this is an o'henry bar. -breathes deeply- aaaaaaa. yum. munchmunchmunch. oooh waddyoknow. im not dead. -epic gasp-
seriously screwed up in the head....
the worst is when you are at a party or something, and people know your diabetec but dont know you can eat w.e with type one and if your on a pump.
haha.
dont you just love it when someone just stares at you when your eating cake like your dumb and killing yourself.
also another good one is "ew,doesnt that hurt having to take that needle"
duh! it hurts but its not gross, its a life saver for us.
or when someone says"does it hurt having to take that needle,why do you? your not fat!"
ahhh mann i feel so smart when i have to explain to people what diabetes is
its not something cause by obesity or anything like that its an auot-immune disease.......... haha
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People say stupid things, and most unfortunatly are ignorant to what we have to go through. I've definitely heard some weird things myself over the years. Most people can't believe I eat as much as I do being a diabetic, when I was in Japan, a country I found to be complely ignornat to diabetis, no one knew anything about it when I tried to explain it, my host family I stayed with could not belive my appetite. I just thought the food was amazing tho :)
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It may be because diabetes has not yet become as prevalent in Japan as it is in the US (T1 and T2 combined). The "Western Diet" we "enjoy" in the US has made our population not only familiar with diabetes, but we have entire industries committed to catering to diabetics. It's unfortunate that T1 and T2 have been lumped together in most people's minds, but at least there is a minimal awareness here. Populations who are still sticking mostly to "traditional" diets have not been hit with T2 to the extent we have, so public education about diabetes may not yet be up to speed.
Also, the traditional Japanese culture views ANY "defect" as a humiliation or dishonor to the family. Infants born with birth defects often end up in orphanages. And, don't get me started on the kids with LD's and autism :(
Mo
Hi Everyone,
I really try not to let cheap talk from people who don't know my disease bother me, however I get really frustrated when I see a regular M.D. and they have no knowledge of type 1 diabetes. I have experienced this so many times in the past twenty years. The worst one goes to an M.D. I saw last year. She basically told me I was irresponsible and asking for a death wish because I wasn't on cholesterol drugs. I have no cholesterol problems. She also wanted to know what meds I was on, I told her insulin only (via pump), she then proceeded to tell me that insulin was just making me worse. I filed a complaint and never went back to that clinic.
"So, would going on a vegan diet help?"
Me, looking confused "Help with what exactly?"
"Make it so that you don't have to take insulin anymore."
Then I explained to the co-worker that made that well meant suggestion how you cannot 'cure' type one diabetes with dietary changes. Again. As she has suggested different diets and tricks several times!
I mentioned to another co-worker that I was on a project with that I had diabetes, as the topic came up. He looked at me gravely after I mentioned the dreaded 'D' word and said "Diabetes killed my father". Which was weird, because the week before he had said that a heart attack killed his father. Hmm. :-p I never know what to say to people when they say things like that. Like..would you say that to someone with any other disease? Nooo.
oh my goodness
thats insane!
that would make me so mad.