If you're a thinking, proactive person, it's hard not to rage about diabeties because it's maligned, misunderstood and misdirected by medics. I know so many diabetics who live in denial...don't understand it, don't want the limitations and use the 'I could be hit by a bus' analogy. They don't realise that they already have been hit by something very dangerous and if they don't jump out of the way, it will reverse back over them. But you can't save everyone. Some had very good funerals and I went to them.
I think perhaps your mistake Ipsi, was not realising your rant was to like minded people. Sometimes we get new members who roar onto the forum as if they've just invented the wheel and set forth to preach to those who've been peddling away for years. But they have good intentions and usually a passion for the subject so that's ok.
Health stats are curious for sure. I have an incurable blood cancer and statistically I could stand in a fully packed Wembley Stadium and they'd not be a single other sufferer and certainly not one of my age and gender. I went on to get a skin cancer and statistically the chances of it being a malignant melanoma were incredibly tiny. However it was and I've never sunbathed or used sunbeds. Life sucks and especially for your poor sister who did everything to help herself and it still didn't work.
So I'm afraid I won't be totally avoiding a few chips or the occasional biscuit. But it will be on my terms and tested for afterwards. A life of total avoidance is too obsessive for me and shouldn't be necessary. However, diabeties isn't only about life choices. Sometimes our pancreatic function is knackered too early and no biscuit avoidance in the world is going to help that. Diabeties isn't created equal but it's the one condition we can give ourselves a fighting chance with. It's about learning our own limits but the medics don't see that and don't want to fund a partnership response to home testing for type 2's.
Hope you enjoy the forum Ipsi. I feel sure you will and we don't mind getting our teeth sharpened once in a while!
