diabetes and reduction of lifespan

[Carina1962]

I was reading an article in a magazine today about prevention of diabetes and the usual stuff about changing lifestyle etc to avoid getting diabetes as it can take 10 years off your life, this was quoted by a spokesperson for DUK. It is reading things like that that makes me feel depressed about having diabetes. I know when i was first diagnosed i scared myself stupid reading stuff about it on the net but people on here were very reassuring that this is not the case if you adopt a healthy lifestyle and look after yourself, so why do they keep printing stuff like this? i also remember a GP telling my mother the same thing when she became diabetic (she became diabetic after contracing pancreatitis and had to go straight onto insulin). It is not the first time i have heard or read this, a bit insensitive i think, why don't they add the positive side?

 

[Laureny019]

Completely agree about it being rather unhelpful and depressing to see these types of things printed but I always try and just think that there's no way of calculating how long someone will live. Many things can reduce lifespan or happen unexpectedly, just got to try and live as much as possible while still taking care to look after ourselves 🙂

 

[Ellie Jones]

Didn't they tell you at diagnoses that now you diabetic doom, gloom and more doom and gloom will be spouted at you at every possible opportunity 😱

I think that is based on an historic methods and enables a catch on fund raising at every opportunity🙄

Historic as in bygone years, the ability to treat and control diabetes was very limited and about the only way was to restrict our carb intake easier done when putting the fear of god into somebody..

Fund Raising well they are a charity so to keep going they've got to extract money out of Joe Public, and if you say the diabetic can lead a perfectly healthy life, with minimum complications or even none at all and you can still do what you want with your life etc.. Nobody going to dig into the coffers to support them...

P.S

I'm sure diabetic makes one cynical that's my excuse for my cynicalism

 

[Steff]

I'm so over all these mags papers etc telling me how long I have to live or what I'm doing or eating wrong, I could go out tomorrow and be knocked off my feet by a bus ,as Lauren says no one can calculate how long or how old a person is gonna live till,I choose to ignore all this rubbish and live my life to the best of my ability and knowledge

 

[trophywench]

Ah yes but if you hadn't been diabetic you'd not have been crossing over to get your repeat prescription would you? Therefore it stands to reason D shortened your life ROFL

There's only two certainties in life - Death and Taxes. You can't get away from it ever. Everyone has to die of something or another, one day.


In which case, if sying is a Fact of Life - why dwell on it? LOL

Xmas happens every single year, but we don't agonise for the rest of every year what we are gonna buy people do we?

 

[Barb]

My father-in-law had Type 2 diabetes and died aged 93. The cause of death was not specifically related to diabetes and he had a full and active life.

I was reading an article in a magazine today about prevention of diabetes and the usual stuff about changing lifestyle etc to avoid getting diabetes as it can take 10 years off your life, this was quoted by a spokesperson for DUK. It is reading things like that that makes me feel depressed about having diabetes. I know when i was first diagnosed i scared myself stupid reading stuff about it on the net but people on here were very reassuring that this is not the case if you adopt a healthy lifestyle and look after yourself, so why do they keep printing stuff like this? i also remember a GP telling my mother the same thing when she became diabetic (she became diabetic after contracing pancreatitis and had to go straight onto insulin). It is not the first time i have heard or read this, a bit insensitive i think, why don't they add the positive side?

 

[Caroline]

My uncle was well past 80 (about 85 or 86) when he passed away and at 81 my father is still going strong, both type 2. I think it is because of complications when people don't take enough care of themselves rather than the diabtes causing a shorter life span. As we are all good here and look after ourselves and do things to avoid the complications there is no reason why we should have a shorter life span than a non diabetic. I fully intend to live at least another 50 or 60 years (I'll be 54 this year) and enjoy doing so!

 

[Tina63]

My Nan, who was type 2 and had various other unrelated conditions, lived to be 87, my dad non D, died of cancer aged 69. You'll go when your time's up I'm afraid and not before!

 

[novorapidboi26]

I'm so over all these mags papers etc telling me how long I have to live or what I'm doing or eating wrong, I could go out tomorrow and be knocked off my feet by a bus ,as Lauren says no one can calculate how long or how old a person is gonna live till,I choose to ignore all this rubbish and live my life to the best of my ability and knowledge

Basically right,

Listening to things like this will not change the way your life pans out, you just do your best and enjoy life. That's the point of all this in the end..........


🙂🙂🙂

 

[Copepod]

The upside is that due to actuaries relying on old data, people with diabetes can get better deals on pensions, annuities etc.

 

[J.Y.Kelly]

I'm going to make damn sure I die from something other than diabetes related complications.
I remember a doctor saying, when asked what were the risks associated with well controlled diabetes, that there weren't any.
Kelly.

 

[Robster65]

One of the biggest killers is worrying.

Best thing is to just do whatever you would have done without diabetes but do it a damn sight healthier and better clued up.

Imagine you hadn't had the diagnosis. How healthy was your lifestyle before?

And did you worry about how that affected your health and lifespan ?

I know I'd be a lot less healthy without it.🙂

Rob

 

[Kwaka1]

Research shows that just by living an everyday normal life can increase your chances of dying by 100%...............amazingly. 🙂

 

[novorapidboi26]

Research shows that just by living an everyday normal life can increase your chances of dying by 100%...............amazingly. 🙂

That research must of came with a hefty price tag........🙂

 

[robert@fm]

This thread is like the old saying that smoking is the biggest single cause of statistics. 🙂

 

[Northerner]

I think that, sadly, most people with diabetes don't understand how to manage it well and therefore, statistically, people with diabetes do have a shortened lifespan. The people who find their way onto forums like ours tend to be highly motivated and more likley to learn how to look after themselves, and hence live a perfectly normal lifespan. The biggest diabetes forum I know of, Diabetes Daily, only has around 70,000 members - there are around 300 million people with diabetes in the world, so we need to spread the word and get people to get involved! 🙂

Incidentally, we get more posts here every month than Diabetes Daily, despite only having a tenth of the membership! 🙂

 

[MargB]

I sometimes think they write things like that to scare some people into doing something about their diet. Not sure if it works though.

As Copecod says, actuaries give better quote for pensions if you are diabetic - I know and it made me laugh!