Lose time?Do you think about a waste of time talking about type 1?
If so, then do not say that it is the day of diabetes, but of diabetes 2. Not any time is lost in that.
My daughter is more than tired of hearing questions like why are you diabetic?Comes many sweets?I have heard that it is not moving and that you are going to be blind.
Those are the messages that reach people.
It was more worth that day, so they have some voice, to claim more means, both economic (more control strips, less fights to put bombs, prescribe the best insulins and not obsolete ...) and education as of educationDiabetologicalMany doctors pass from type 2, and they don't even explain what hydrates are.
Diabetes day?No, stereotype day ..
And, if there is no time to explain, you better not celebrate that day, total for what is useful ...
I used to bothered me before, but the truth, I have long understood that media attention focuses on the majority and overwhelming diabetes, which is becoming its own merits into a global pandemic, which is getting that it has reached that it has reachedBrutal and devastating 13% of the affected adult population.And within diabetes, type 1 are a residual group, we want or not.It is a disease that occurs a case for every XX thousand.We are just over 5% of the total diabetics.And in addition, we are people who, in their almost entirely, and due to the abrupt nature of this modality, we are perfectly trained from the day one of our disease.And for that and for many other reasons, we are not as news as type 2, and above all, because type 2 are the authentic diabetes problem.They are the group in which that 50% of the total people with diabetes are found that do not have it.They are the group that have no adherence to treatment.They are the collective that say "I have a little sugar", and then Paco passes with the reduction.Because they are the ones that generate complications, which generate the social cost of diabetes, and those that also generate the huge economic cost for the health system.
I perfectly understand that they talk about them.Because in addition, in this year 2011, as last year, motto is education.And above all, that motto, that desire to get educated patients addresses them, to type 2, which are the ones that form that 90% of diabetics who have never received diabetological education.
I have not said that you "waste time" for talking about a type 1. what I have said is that when they talk about diabetes (in general) I can understand that they say it is a consequence of bad life habits.What they do is that 5% of diabetics have a variant that is not related to lifestyle and that is not preventable as type 2. And if you want to limit that detail, you need a time that you do not have on television.
For example, I have not cited almost type 1 in my media appearances this year.The motto of education and the figures that I have commented (among other things) are clearly the preserve of type 2, which are really the problem of diabetes.
And you are right that many doctors should consider what they tell patients.I have always said it.One of the problems of the lack of adhesion to treatment by this group is its non -awareness of the disease.We could not understand that a doctor tells us "you have some mononucleosis."Well here either."A little sugar" is an unacceptable diagnosis.That person will never be aware of what he has in hands and of course, nor will he take the appropriate measures to be treated.
Regina, when it is said that diabetes is preventable and is a consequence of bad life habits,logically they refer to type 2. What is incomplete information?flatly yes.But I insist, omissions apart, the problem of diabetes has a huge 2, and we are not in that group.Which does not take away of course, so that we are attended as it is due, and we are provided with the coverage and benefits to which we are entitled.And sometimes being the minority group in diabetes has harmed us in certain benefits.I think that both worlds should be separated very well, because the truth, they have nothing to do (or at least not in their initial stages; when a type 2 is already insulinized, it is another issue).
ISCI / debut: 1986 / HbA1c: 5,5%