unemployedpancreas:

I think type 1 and type 2 should have different names. I have type 1, I have organ failure. I never got the opportunity to be pre-diabetic. No one ever told me “you have to turn this around or you’ll suffer consequences, you have to change your lifestyle.” People with…

Exactly. And I’m tired of people telling me that if I changed my diet, then I wouldn’t have gotten it. Um, no. I was bound to get it. No diet would have changed that. Type 1 is genetic, (well it’s still a mystery in my case, since no family member has it.) but it’s still not determined by lifestyle. Type 2 is.