Tattoo Idea for Diabetes

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DanielHod

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Hello, i'm looking for an idea to get a T1 tattoo - something small and simple - has anybody had one of these or ideas? -
Google gives me american symbols!
 
DanielHod said:
Previous thread? Why wouldn't it be a good idea?
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I have a tattoo but I’d never have a diabetes tattoo because:

I) it doesn’t define me and I’m certainly not having the blasted thing permanently tattooed on my body
2) it would look stupid when there was a cure
3) I already have a MedicAlert bracelet which contains more info and has all my details on their system
4) there are so many nicer, cooler, prettier things to get tattooed
 
I dunno....diabetes does not define me but neither do other things that i may want tattood..in my case, diabetes was a bit of an excuse to get a visible tattoo without getting lots of non visible ones (and some people can be very against tattoos) plus always kinda wanted one. As fir a cure, would be bloody brill to get a blast over of 'cured' over the top! I'm not really into bracelets and fined extraneous things annoying. As for it not being good/cool/pretty, well, depends on the design
To be honest, probably won't do it and it would make sense to have a first tattoo somewhere more discreet to check you like the artists work.

Plus, well, i very rarely see a tatt on somone i like...they are lovelly in mags/ pictures but in real life...

Also, pretty much every subject we discuss here has been discused before and its a shame not to have another thread which may go in different directions and possibly give the op ideas
 
How about somrhing incorporsting a jelly baby/ babies?
 
It may be a good idea but would first responders be trained to look for that?

@Tdm I’ve noticed the bias against tattoos isn’t so prominent these days, plenty of people I know have tattoos and haven’t got any judgement.
 
Ha ha, read that as the people who had the tattoos had a lack of (ie poor judgement.)
I think it depends what you want. Really, for a medical tattoo its just the words you need, as clear as possible. But thats a bit stark. And most of those with the staff/snake are rather ugly..though i did see a snake that looked a bit like a worm and it was quite cute.
I was thinking of incorporation a beetroot (dia beet us) but thats a bit silly. I have an allotment hence the veg obsession.
 
Tdm said:
How about somrhing incorporsting a jelly baby/ babies?
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No one’s going to look at a jelly baby and think oh yes that’s a medical alert tattoo for type 1 diabetes. I don’t see the point of a medical tattoo, a wristband does the same job
 
OP did not state they were after a medical alert tattoo.
 
I think you have to identify why you want the tattoo. ie. What you expect the purpose of it to be. If it is a medic alert, then it needs to be plain and obvious. Most people here on the forum don't seem to want to have their diabetes obvious and on show and a very plain medic alert tattoo would probably be much more obvious than something like a rose or butterfly or snake etc, purely because of the starkness of it. I think that the general idea is that if you are found unconscious it is a very clear way of signaling to people/medics that you are diabetic and hence suggest a possible cause for your condition and hopefully earlier correct treatment, but I think medics are now so well equipped with gear to measure various things that it is of minimal help.... assuming they spotted the tattoo..... or wristband. If I wanted a tattoo, I would want something personal to me that was decorative or had meaning rather than mark my body with my health conditions. Knowing I was asthmatic might be equally as important as diabetic. Some people could end up with a whole list.... as long as their arm perhaps! Think I would rather have a bracelet if i was going down that route and I felt that I needed it. I did get a pendant necklace not long after I was first diagnosed, but the etching gradually faded to the point you couldn't read it, so I stopped wearing it and I don't feel any more vulnerable or less safe without it.
 
DanielHod said:
Hello, i'm looking for an idea to get a T1 tattoo - something small and simple - has anybody had one of these or ideas? -
Google gives me american symbols!
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I had mine done yesterday! It just says Diabetes Type 1. (I will try to upload a picture)
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I never dreamt that I would do this, but having been involved in dealing with two people in the street who were seriously ill from their diabetes it shook me, and I was finally persuaded that I should wear a medi alert.

Interesting reading all the reasons people have given for not having a tattoo.
My reasons for having one done were:
I didn’t want to wear any of the medi alert jewellery in place of what I wear already
There are times when it is not convenient to wear bracelets and I didn’t want a pendant
I am ‘not young’ and the ‘cure in ten years‘ is a long way off, and who knows…
My tatto does not define me it is just a tattoo that will get me the proper treatment if I am found alone.

Each to their own
 
DanielHod said:
Hello, i'm looking for an idea to get a T1 tattoo - something small and simple - has anybody had one of these or ideas? -
Google gives me american symbols!
Click to expand...
There were lots of other designs on the internet, but many were quite obscure or scrawly. I wanted clear and simple. I did research reliable tattoo artists, and it was an interesting experience being in the studio.
A friend had one done too for solidarity and it was on her list of things to do now that she was over 60.

Someone suggested I now get PTO done on the top of my wrist.
 
I quite like that....clear without being stark. I think i would want a degree of design to it
 
DanielHod said:
Hello, i'm looking for an idea to get a T1 tattoo - something small and simple - has anybody had one of these or ideas? -
Google gives me american symbols!
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Twenty years ago or so tattoos were proposed for Diabetics because they allegedly change colour with bg levels. So you could see high or low bgs at a glance.
 
Burylancs said:
Twenty years ago or so tattoos were proposed for Diabetics because they allegedly change colour with bg levels. So you could see high or low bgs at a glance.
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I will report back regarding any change of colour!!!!!
 
In not as medical ID, I’ve seen people using < and > symbols to represent ”I am greater than my ups and downs”, which could apply not only to diabetes but to facing other challenges

An internet image search offers this

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I like the way that the wristband ‘reads’ for other people, and the tattoo reads as a reminder for the person with diabetes.
 
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