With teh prevalence of people being diagnosed with diabetes I ahve noticed that its becoming a fad to have it.
People in restaurants are saying they have it and then eat everything in site.
When you ask " oh what meter do you use?" or do you test? " Who is your DE? they look at you like your strange.

When you ask in conversation which Insulin, oral antidiabetic are you on etdc they say Oh my doctor says I dont need anything i dont have the serious one, you have to begin to wonder...........

when you take out your arsenal, meter, emergency insulin, emergency glucose shot, etc, they are taken aback.
I think too many doctors are dixing diabetes in people who show tendency but arent really diabetic. I personally think going abclkk to true diabetes diagnosis, for thos ethat have it is better than everyone running around with it..... or am I out there.......

julie

I think that having hyper or hypoglycemia used to be an "in" disease. Having full blown diabetes still has all these non-romantic realities connected to it, like amputation and blindness. Having diabetes isn't "in".

The people who boast about having that problem used to be the ones who talked about Hyperglycemia. I think it started with Burt Reynolds having it and it resulted in him losing some weight, making his face thinner and getting more chiseled in his physique. Then he became the centerfold. That was decades ago.

Then people started to say they had it and so they insisted on a "special" diet and they insisted they could only eat certain foods. I'd guess that is the diabetes which isn't the "serious one" that the foolish person you spoke to talked about.

Because, as we all know, bottom line, ain't nothing romantic or cool about diabetes

It just gets me to chompin when people say they:
got sugar their blood
got high sugar ( and in both cases tehy are standing theer with swollen feet or ina hoverround and drinking a coke!)
I have teh bad one
I have the good kind cause I only take a pill
arrrrghhhhh

or better yet when you dsay you take shots they get this ghastlky look on tehior face and say I just couldnt do it, take a shot....

oh well........

I just don't understand it when people who should know better (Diabetics amongst them) have absolutely no compassion towards people who just can't seem to get control over their diet.

When I see someone who says they are unhappy with their diabetes control and yet are doing things that will absolutely make them sicker, I'd ask them to help me understand what's going on with them, rather than lose patience.

If someone is doing something that will harm themselves, then I'd have to help them. I wouldn't make fun of them or lose patience. And if someone is actually in one of those electric wheelchairs, I know how bad it is to not be able to walk, I'd question them, not get annoyed.

If someone made a stupid remark about "good" or "bad" diabetes, I'd educate them. They might get annoyed that I am actually listening to them, but I'd spend time telling them the facts, not getting angry.

I used to run a diabeets booth every year at our local County fair.
Id offer free glucose kits, glucose testing and samples it was ahoot... we worked with the ADA and gave out exchange guides too.........
Anyway poeple woudl come by teh booth and they woudl say
I goit sugar, bioy are my feet hurting:. so we would ask if theyw anted a BG test and tehy did it themsleves. and tehywoudl be 300 or more... lucky fo rus an ambulance was right outside. we woudl offer them a new eschange guide, a busioness card from the local diabetologist and he worled with us to make appointments.

One lady was in a cast from wher she had a foot amputated....... she was complaining of her other foot hurting and being hot.. she came over and we got to talking, so we asked would she like to try a new low carb drink.
she said no she'd rather have her Coke....... her husband then brought over a funnel cake........

for 7 days we stayed up there....... we gave away all of our meters and zero exchange books.......

we saw known diabetics scrafing all kinds of caramel apples, cotton candy, funel cakes, lemonade liek crazy and then sit and compain under then tent or in teh building abotu how bad their sugar was.....

now if you ahve people that tyou can help and are willing tolisten then fine.
However what we were running into was such a high majority fo diabetic here that dont care......

theer was a woman that i know here who started with a blister on her foot, it grew to gangrene, she had it lanced cleaned and for months it never healed..
we tried ot ocnvince her to go on insulin, its SOP for that type of thing bust she was afrraid

I think a small percentage, mostly regional have different outlooks on how they handle their diabetes.....and I think thats a big key in control