silly comments

[PattiEvans]

From several different people in different places whilst I was treating a hypo “would you like a glass of water?”.

From a particularly irritating and stupid female manager I had to endure during my final few months of working. “Come into my office I want to discuss xxx you can eat that later” whilst I was eating my lunch. “No I can’t I bolussed half an hour ago”. She also continued to talk at me when I’d said “sorry, I need to treat this hypo urgently”.

Or the classic “my friend has diabetes and she eats loads of sugar, why can’t you.”

 

[Eddy Edson]

"I got you some gluten free bread!" is still my favourite.

 

[PattiEvans]

"I got you some gluten free bread!" is still my favourite.

Love it!

 

[mikeyB]

I'm thinking of having a T-Shirt printed with "It's not the diabetes" for when I go to hospital diabetes appointments in my wheelchair, to stop folk looking at my feet. That's kind of the reverse of the thread topic, but it does display another aspect of life as T1 - folk (including Doctors) always assume any problem you get is caused by diabetes.

 

[trophywench]

After my 40th birthday people including doctors and hospitals all started assuming I must be T2 - and that is VERY wearing indeed! As is having GPs telling me when reviewing my blood test results that a TSH result of over 3.0 is perfectly OK ....... even when I said 'So that's the last 2 TSH results 6 months apart over 3.0 so no it isn't in my book' - No it isn't at all unusual, because TSH results frequently vary by comparatively huge amounts all your life! Zip your lip Jen, you have a phone call booked with your consultant in a few weeks time.

Oh, there's a thing - consultant agreed with ME and corrective action instigated pdq!

 

[Flower]

My friend came to stay for a few days and bought me a bottle of 1 Cal spray oil so I could eat chips without a problem. It was a lovely idea but chips are still lumps of carbs that need insulin whether it's 1 Cal spray oil or not.

The other one that amuses me is people asking who comes out to change my pump cannulas/test my glucose like I have a personal supply of DSN's on call for every snack or cannula change I need.

 

[Bloden]

The other one that amuses me is people asking who comes out to change my pump cannulas/test my glucose like I have a personal supply of DSN's on call for every snack or cannula change I need.

When I told a friend’s daughter that I had to inject insulin 4 times a day, she said “So you have to go to the doctor 4x a day!” She had a good excuse - she was only 8 years old. 😉

 

[Stuvart]

I'm t2 but with suspected vestibular neuropathy (big head injury from an rtc may have created a weak/damaged nerve then attacked by uncontrolled diabetes) which causes vertigo (never had it before the rtc)and every time I go a bit dizzy there's one guy at work who will offer me sweets thinking I'm going hypo where as on my case if my sugars go high (above 9ish) I get dizzy it dont matter how many times I tell him its the other way round.
I've also had the how have you got the d as your not fat or lazy.
And of course there's always oh have a cake/cookie/sweet thing it won't hurt my friend 'had' diabetes and they eat every thing.
Actually thats the one that bothers me the most those who compare me with a friend of a friend who 'supposedly' have t2 and eat everything and are in remission.
I think its mostly down to stereotyping and ignorance of people thinking that diabetes is like most other illnesses and are all the same like a cold or something, where as us with it know that what works for one may not work for another. Excuse the rant.

 

[EmmaL76]

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Todays silly comment… would you like one of my birthday brownies mum? Followed by oh yeah sorry.

 

[helli]

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Todays silly comment… would you like one of my birthday brownies mum? Followed by oh yeah sorry.

They look amazing - I am impressed that you resisted.

 

[MikeyBikey]

After my amputation someone said to me "You couldn't have used you meter very much when you were younger!" I pointed out they hadn't been invented then and it was nearly two decades later before they started becoming available!

 

[trophywench]

.... and would not have been any use really either even if we did have meters, since the insulins available then were hardly adjustable anyway!

 

[Abi]

Just wondering what silly comments people have gotten.

so far Ive had " I don;t understand you're so skinny why do you have diabetes"(diabeties is acully partlly the reason")

and in resposne "oh i feel like i might be going low I'm going need to check" you shouldn't be if you've done you're insullin right"(baring in mind that ther're still working out what the right insullin is for me" but it doesn't work like that anyway")

I was diagnosed with type one diabetes 35 years and a month ago. I am skinny- never been big and am now trying to feed my face to gain an extra kilo or two...
As per the second comment ***8@f!
I've obviously regularly not been doing my insulin right. I am afraid that is just the way it is- frequently needs tweaking. Having said that libre 2 has drastically reduced number of lows and time in low range as I set it to alarm once blood glucose down to 4.4. This is something you should probably consider

 

[Abi]

At least "they" are allowing you some cake

« If you had cake after lunch, you can’t have cake after dinner » and other similar comments...🙄

Luckily this has stopped and my sweet tooth remains satisfied

My friends are great with it, will ask questions but also just lets me get on with it. Helps that there are 2 T1D in our group, although feel bad that they had to go through the whole DKA thing twice 😱

 

[MikeyBikey]

.... and would not have been any use really either even if we did have meters, since the insulins available then were hardly adjustable anyway!I wod dispute tjat

I would dispute that. For very many years I was on MDI witb soluble insulin. The various attempts with once a day insulins were never satisfactory

 

[trophywench]

Not all of us were offered such things - I used once a day Ultralente from diagnosis until the mid 1980s.

 

[nonethewiser]

After my amputation someone said to me "You couldn't have used you meter very much when you were younger!" I pointed out they hadn't been invented then and it was nearly two decades later before they started becoming available!

No fixing stupid is there, as bad as it gets that one.

 

[trophywench]

Very early 1980s I treated myself to a Roche one I bought from Boots in B'ham city centre (where I always got my prescriptions from as it was just the other end of New Street from my office, so easiest place for me and I could either nip to BHS (for eg lightbulbs, hats or knickers) or M&S (eg knickers, bras, OH's underpants, knitwear) during the same lunch hour plus could look in the windows of every single different shoe shop as I walked past - and might even have time to browse handbags etc in Salisburys) and funded the strips at c.£15 a tub myself - mid 1980s I was told by my GP I could have the strips on prescription now - ie free!

 

[Diabolized]

I've had comments on my size from health care professionals saying 'your too skinny to be diabetic'.
I also had an elderly aunt who saw me injecting insulin and said 'do you still have to do that. Aren't you cured yet?'

It just shows a lack of understanding about diabetes, even among health care professionals.

 

[MikeyBikey]

A friend (another lifelong T1) was in a pub

I've had comments on my size from health care professionals saying 'your too skinny to be diabetic'.
I also had an elderly aunt who saw me injecting insulin and said 'do you still have to do that. Aren't you cured yet?'

It just shows a lack of understanding about diabetes, even among health care professionals.

I've had comments on my size from health care professionals saying 'your too skinny to be diabetic'.
I also had an elderly aunt who saw me injecting insulin and said 'do you still have to do that. Aren't you cured yet?'

It just shows a lack of understanding about diabetes, even among health care professionals.

A friend (another lifelong T1) was having a quiet drink in his local when some barstool know-it-all started commenting he must have have been a very fat child to get diabetes. My friend tried to explain but the comments kept coming and in the end my friend asked him to shut up. He didn't so my friend floored him (not really recommended). Both were banned but my friend was allowed in the following week!