Stop lumping me in with fatabetics. I have TYPE FUCKING ONE DIABETES. It wasn’t avoidable like type 2. No matter how many cheetos I put back in the bag, no matter how many forks I put down and no matter how many times I got off the sofa to do things other than take a shit and get more food I still would’ve gotten this disease.
There are so many fat people in this province with diabetes that they’ve stigmatized the disease for the poor schmucks who had no control over getting the disease or not.
So stop looking at me with disgust when I tell you I’m diabetic.
Fed up with being sick
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2009.
Then how about I look at you with disgust for being an insensitive dip-shit … agreed!
Lose some weight ?
Do not expect others to change, change yourself.
Then lose the weight you’re ambiguously dancing around. Being overweight plays hell with your sugar levels. Type 1 is known to make you skinnier ffs, my uncle was a scarecrow.
I can sort of empathize with the OP to some degree as I have T1 diabetes myself, and I’m often lumped into the same category. A co worker said to me once, when I refused a piece of candy she was offering and told her the reason that I was “awfully young to have diabetes”, and I corrected her telling her I had Type 1 which you usually get when you’re younger. I’m not a stick, but I’m at a fairly decent weight.
But the thing IS, scott, most T1 diabetics aren’t fat and if anything they can be UNDERWEIGHT. I dunno what the OPs weight is, but from the majority of T1 diabetics I’ve met, none of them are fat. But the fact is people automatically think anyone with diabetes got it because (even if they aren’t now) they were/are a big fatso. I mean even fat people CAN get type one (and I’m willing to bet a lot of the fat kids getting the ‘betes these days ARE type 1, but their docs are saying they’re type 2 because they’re overweight).
The OP might be an insensitive dipshit, but they kinda do have a point, I hate to say: we ARE all lumped in together with those who ended up getting a pretty preventable disease (not in ALL cases, but most cases of T2 are due to lifestyle choices which implies that they’re fat and lazy, when that may or may not be the case, but we all know how tolerant everyone is towards fat people these days).
I was reading the wait times info on the department of health website and under the “what you can do to reduce weight times” category they pretty much stated that diabetics are killing the health care system. I didn’t take personal offense to that, but it WOULD have been nice if they had’ve said “type 2 diabetics” because 90% OF diabetics ARE type 2. So the lousy 10% of us with Type one aren’t really making that much of a dent.
What *I* feel bad about with T2 diabetics is that it’s REALLY hard to change your lifestyle if you’ve been doing the same thing for almost your entire life (most are diagnosed over 40 I believe), so you get a lot of people who continue their poor lifestyle and end up with seriously complications. I have a family member with T2 and she didn’t control her diabetes for the better part of 12 years (and still isn’t) and she’s losing her sight. I think it’s that type of disregard for your own health that should be looked down upon (only 1 in 4 diabetics survive heart disease — I’m willing to bet that at least 2 of those 4 who die didn’t control their diabetes very well). Most type one diabetics have better control over all because if they don’t they’ll get a lot sicker, a lot sooner (it can take YEARS before a type two diabetic gets sick from their uncontrolled blood sugars).
Like I said i can sort of empathize with the OP to a degree, but I just don’t see why they’d get so worked up about it. If someone did that to me when I mentioned I was diabetic (look at me with disgust) I’d tell them to fuck off (I wanted to SO badly at work, but I was at work so…)
LOL “fatabetes”
that made me actually LOL. does that make me a bad person? OH NOES!
I used to call my boss ‘Mr. Carrot Stick’ and then he was diagnosed with Type I. The poor guy – I really feel for him – he’s underweight and has to inject 4 times a day. Anyone that is disgusted by anyone diabetic, type I or II should be shat upon by two thousand chili-filled seagulls.
I agree, TTFN. I have type one diabetes as well and I have to inject 5 times a day. I’ve had it since I was a teenager and was put on insulin instantaneously (I was diagnosed by accident, actually, so I didn’t lose weight or get sick), so I don’t think anything of it, but what really frosts my cupcake is the fact that I can’t get private health insurance, so, before I went back to school I had to lay out $300/month for insulin and supplies. No private insurance company is going to insure a diabetic, especially one who’s a young diabetic (one company said they won’t insure people diagnosed before age 30). I had to take a test in my early 20s to see if I had type one or two because my thyroid condition had made me gain so much weight the docs thought i might actually have type two. But nope, type one. I’d much rather have type two than type one. It’s a lot less serious.
Apparently you can get type one and type two at the same time. Insulin can put weight on kids and if they’re pre disposed to a weight problem in their genes they can gain weight and develop type two.
I still think “fatabetes” is kind of humorous. Please don’t hate me 🙁
I think type 2 is another affluentza kind of disease… we eat so much fat and sugar that a part of our body gives up producing insulin. I feel for the people that have type 1 because there was nothing that can be done about it; their pancreas just gave up producing insulin. People who have type 2 deserve it.
Dr. Fever: in type two a lot of the problem is insulin resistance, so you over produce insulin while your cells can’t use the insulin you produce, then your pancreas just craps out. That’s why the first line drug for type two is a drug called metformin which makes your cells more sensitive to the insulin you have. The reason you ARE so resistant is almost always because of your weight (although some things like poly cystic ovarian syndrome is responsible and the sufferer has no control over their weight gain and it’s usually not life style related), and once you lose weight the resistance goes away and while the diabetes doesn’t it’s pretty much not an issue (no drugs just diet and exercise treatment). I don’t think it’s overly common for a type two diabetic to lose this much weight and keep it on. Since they’re diagnosed later in life it’s hard to break life-long habits when you’re in your 40s and 50s and older. It’s the fat that’s the problem, and how do most of us get fat? Poor lifestyle choices (not always, but more often than not). It’s no surprise that the incidence of type two is going up as the population is getting fatter.
With type one you CAN produce insulin, but for some reason your body starts attacking it, killing it in the process. That’s why most type one diabetics will require a lot less insulin than a type two diabetic on insulin — there’s no insulin resistance.
I think type two diabetes can be likened to lung cancer in a way — where as in diabetes over consumption and poor lifestyle choices are the contributing factor, and smoking is the main contributing factor in most lung cancer cases. No one would say anyone deserves lung cancer, but some responsibility on the part of the sufferer has to be taken.
Once this older gentleman tried to have a pissing contest with me over his type two diabetes. He saw my medical alert bracelet and asked me what it was for and I told him and he said “OH MY DIABETES IS MORE SERIOUS THAN YOURS! I’M ON THREE PILLS A DAY!” I retorted with “I take five needles a day” and he shut right the fuck up.
Honestly, type two isn’t really that bad of a disease and it isn’t really that serious as long as you eat properly. Type one can make you really sick, really fast and generally, those with this type have more years to live with it because they’re diagnosed earlier. My dad has type two and we have the same health care team and let me tell you they’re A LOT nastier to me when I’m not 100% controlled than they are with him and he tends to not keep his diabetes in check. I dunno if it’s an age/gender thing, but I will admit it pisses me off (I stopped going to see one nurse because she treated me like shit, whereas she was sweet as pie to my dad).
Oh, I understand that type 2 functions like that, but it’s the fact that it can be controlled by diet, which is my point. People who have type 1 really can’t change that fact, there’s really nothing that they can do about it. That’s what makes type 2 an “affluent” disease. I worked with a guy who was type 1 and he fought like hard to keep it in control. It’s brutal.
I feel bad for the brittle diabetics. They have basically no control over their sugars regardless of what they eat, how much they exercise of how much insulin they take. Brittle diabetics are type one.
I completely see what you’re saying, Dr F. Type two diabetes is like lung cancer in a lot of cases. Both can sometimes be completely avoid and are due mainly to poor lifestyle choices.
Just an FYI, T2 is also hereditary. I was diganosed with T2 4 years ago and was not overweight at all.
Its very ironic that OP hates being stereotyped but doesn’t hesitate to stereotype T2 diabetics.