cure?

[caffeine_demon]

So - Been thinking of this for a while now!

Suppose there was a cure for diabetes created, almost perfect, but it had a side effect.

would you take the cure if the side effect was:

1 - an immediate 2 stone weight gain? 5 stone? 10??
2 - hands like edward scissorhands?
3 - severe, incurable acne?
4 - severe, incurable BO?
5 - your nose being 2 inches longer? 5 inches?
6 - 1 month of severe sickness, diarrhoea, and aches? 6 months?
7 - hair that always looked like:
http://cdn.weinterrupt.com/wp-content/uploads/badhaircut.jpg
8 - a broken leg?
9 - a 1 in 10,000 chance of death? 1 in 100?
10- no side effect - but a ?5,000 price tag (no NHS or health insurance help)

 

[Steff]

8,Il take the broken leg ...
Took me ages to think about that one....

 

[Northerner]

I'd find the ?5k from somewhere 🙂 Had the broken leg and survived! I'm pretty sure I've lived through number 6 earlier in my life! 😱

 

[AJLang]

Have also survived the broken leg but wouldn't want to repeat that experience. Not sure how but I would find the ?5k from somewhere.......maybe I could send Susie out to work🙄

 

[Newtothis]

So - Been thinking of this for a while now!

Suppose there was a cure for diabetes created, almost perfect, but it had a side effect.

would you take the cure if the side effect was:

1 - an immediate 2 stone weight gain? 5 stone? 10??
2 - hands like edward scissorhands?
3 - severe, incurable acne?
4 - severe, incurable BO?
5 - your nose being 2 inches longer? 5 inches?
6 - 1 month of severe sickness, diarrhoea, and aches? 6 months?
7 - hair that always looked like:
http://cdn.weinterrupt.com/wp-content/uploads/badhaircut.jpg
8 - a broken leg?
9 - a 1 in 10,000 chance of death? 1 in 100?
10- no side effect - but a ?5,000 price tag (no NHS or health insurance help)

I think my OH would leave me if I had 3, 4, and 7...

 

[ypauly]

I allready have number 5 llol

 

[Dizzydi]

I'd find the 5k as well -

After loosing 3 stone and keeping it of for 4 years I dont fancy gaining a treble bum, already got double bum lol and it would probably cost 5 k to replace whole wardrobe of clothes again and I dont fancy any of the others either 🙄

 

[trophywench]

Now? I'd keep the D.

If you'd asked me on the last couple of days before I was actually diagnosed, then the answer would have been different. I've always said if they'd told me 'We can make you feel better but we'll have to cut (whatever) off' - I'd have said Do it.

 

[trophywench]

Pete's just pointed out that if it were ?5,000 the NHS would fund it for everyone cos it's cheaper than everything.

Should have said 100 or 250k ! LOL

 

[Mark T]

?5K isn't that bad. An IVF is around ?15K upwards.

Although if it was only one broken leg (rather then an on-gong weakness of he bones causing risk of future fractures), that would be a empting option.

 

[Robster65]

I'd put up with the BO. It'd only be a prob for everyone else then !

But, like TW, I'd probably stick as I am. Better the devil you know and it's not so bad once you get the hang of it.🙂

Rob

 

[AlisonM]

I never used to be an obsessive person, but since diagnosis I've been absolutely obsessed with the Big D, it rules my life every minute of every day. I'd take almost any of those side effects provided it's just one and not the whole lot! When it comes to the hair I can already do a pretty good Helena Bonham-Carter impression and I've broken just about everything else, so why not a leg?

 

[Zuckerkranke]

Number 10, please. As for the rest, some things in life just ain't worth the sufferance.

 

[daisymoo84]

I'd try and find the money from somewhere but if not I'd take the hair- I'm used to bad hair days anyhow and have learnt to do wonders with a hat 😉

 

[MeanMom]

Any of them 'cos I'd have them, not K.

But if it was her that to endure the 'price' for the cure , then pay the ?5K as she has that in the bank ( late grandfather very generous in will as she was his only grandchild) .

Would surely cost way more than ?5k - more like ?5M😱

 

[Northerner]

Any of them 'cos I'd have them, not K.

But if it was her that to endure the 'price' for the cure , then pay the ?5K as she has that in the bank ( late grandfather very generous in will as she was his only grandchild) .

Would surely cost way more than ?5k - more like ?5M😱

It does raise the question - if there was a cure, but it was extremely expensive, would the NHS fund it (or even be able to fund it, given the number of people with diabetes)?

 

[Newtothis]

Do you think there will be, realistically, a cure in years to come? especially with how quickly medical technology is moving forward....?

 

[Robster65]

Do you think there will be, realistically, a cure in years to come? especially with how quickly medical technology is moving forward....?

I think there will be but they won't offer it to us long termers. Unless we're so far gone that we'll cost a fortune in other treatments.

I've heard of a thousand imminent cures and not one has materialised, so it would need to be shown to work and in the normal treatment pipeline to be convincing.

Rob

 

[Newtothis]

I think there will be but they won't offer it to us long termers. Unless we're so far gone that we'll cost a fortune in other treatments.

I've heard of a thousand imminent cures and not one has materialised, so it would need to be shown to work and in the normal treatment pipeline to be convincing.

Rob

Its good to dream about though... I just, only sometimes, feel frightened of the unknown; it can sometimes be a word or sentance people use that brings into reality the consequences of good/bad control, don't know whether ignorance is bliss or early detection was a god-send; but then I feel selfish compared to others... end of self-pity..😡

 

[imtrying]

I'd say I'd stay as I am...but I think if it was ?5k price tag my mum and dad would probably insist and raise the money somehow!!

I've learnt to live with diabetes....I'm not sure how I'd live without it now! 😱