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Admit it, Type 1s. In weaker moments, you look down your noses at the Type 2 diabetics. You know that their disease can result from poor lifestyle choices. You know that their treatment regimen, compared with yours, is simple.
And you're really tired of folks telling you: "Oh, my grandfather had diabetes, too!"
"It's almost like sibling rivalry," says diabetes educator and author Constance Brown-Riggs. "People with Type 1 diabetes feel that those with Type 2 get all the attention. People with Type 2 feel that Type 1 diabetes is 'really bad diabetes.' "
But clinicians such as Brown-Riggs and diabetics themselves point out that both types hold similar challenges and consequences. As a matter of fact, Type 2 diabetics sometimes outperform their Type 1 brethren.
Impossible? Far from it. The best-controlled, most-motivated Type 2s have lessons for all of us - Type 1s and even other Type 2s. Here are a few.
Taking a wake-up call
Type 1s know their disease isn't their fault. Type 2s don't have that reassurance. But that means some take their diagnosis as a serious motivator.
Brown-Riggs told me, "I have one women in my practice that was diagnosed with type 2 about eight years ago. She absolutely took her diagnosis as a wake-up call. She carefully plans her meals, counts carbs, exercises, monitors blood glucose and maintains regular contact with her health care team."
With that work, the woman is able to manage her illness without medication.
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http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/...-with-type-1-diabetes-can-learn-from-type-2s/
Admit it, Type 1s. In weaker moments, you look down your noses at the Type 2 diabetics. You know that their disease can result from poor lifestyle choices. You know that their treatment regimen, compared with yours, is simple.
And you're really tired of folks telling you: "Oh, my grandfather had diabetes, too!"
"It's almost like sibling rivalry," says diabetes educator and author Constance Brown-Riggs. "People with Type 1 diabetes feel that those with Type 2 get all the attention. People with Type 2 feel that Type 1 diabetes is 'really bad diabetes.' "
But clinicians such as Brown-Riggs and diabetics themselves point out that both types hold similar challenges and consequences. As a matter of fact, Type 2 diabetics sometimes outperform their Type 1 brethren.
Impossible? Far from it. The best-controlled, most-motivated Type 2s have lessons for all of us - Type 1s and even other Type 2s. Here are a few.
Taking a wake-up call
Type 1s know their disease isn't their fault. Type 2s don't have that reassurance. But that means some take their diagnosis as a serious motivator.
Brown-Riggs told me, "I have one women in my practice that was diagnosed with type 2 about eight years ago. She absolutely took her diagnosis as a wake-up call. She carefully plans her meals, counts carbs, exercises, monitors blood glucose and maintains regular contact with her health care team."
With that work, the woman is able to manage her illness without medication.
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