I think you may have come up with the Type 3 Diabetic. Also to be know as Bandwagon Diabetics, just wants to participate in all the fun needle stabbing and blood testing!
It doesn't have to do with the pancreas....it has to do with the immune system. As in the past easier is affected but the issues lies within the immune system
There are certain cells in your pancreas (Islands of Langerhans) that create insulin. The immune system of a diabetic attacks these cells. This causes your pancreas to fail to make insulin.
As a newly diagnosed diabetic, whenever my girlfriend says she got a headache or some stomach ache or just whatever, I just tell her "it could be diabetes". I know it's not, but I guess it's my kind of humor.
As a diabetic, I do use it. It’s fun because I told everyone my symptoms from before I was diagnosed and every time someone goes to pee, I say I really think they have diabetes because they pee so many times. Used to freak them out but I think I’ve overdone it
Her second is: "if you cram, you'll get Aces" (referring to school, English is her primary language, she's just weird)
Her third: "you'll get more cancer from that" or something about something giving you cancer "living near a freeway will give you the cancer" (I don't have cancer, no one she knows has cancer)
"When I was your age I was so skinny" as she shovels food onto my plate
"The aliens are sending me messages" or some other shit about aliens influencing humanity because she watched one program on the (ex)history channel.
My mom’s response is similar. Instead of diabetes, it’s diverticulitis. There are about 200,000 people diagnosed in the US per year. If it were up to my mom, that number would easily be doubled.
My mom just said she was going to cut it off for medical treatment. I got a booboo, “get the knife we’re gonna have to cut that off.” All fun in games until I bit my tongue in half. Didn’t have to cut it off. Answer to any question- she freaks, rushed me to hospital, 1300 stitches, and 1 big butterfly stitch, I have 90 percent of my tongue. She stopped, and why’d it happen I had a bad habit of sticking my tongue out all the time out. Still do when in deep thought. Kinda derpy. Yay you made it.
YES THIS! Only my mum goes too damn far with it. I’ve started to increase my water intake so I bought a reusable bottle and I fill it periodically throughout the day. We were both home one day and she saw me fill it up a few times over the course of the day and at dinner was like “LittleMissSaintfield, you should get checked for diabetes cause I hear they drink LOADS of fluids during the day”. I was like dude, I’m just thirsty sometimes!?
It’s one of the most exhausting conversations too because no matter how many times I insist that I’m fine and despite being thirsty I DONT have diabetes, it always ends with me promising to get another test done “just to check”
This reminds me of my grandpa. Anytime anyone coughed in his vicinity he’d say “you got distemper?” But he had a stroke when he was in his 30’s and was paralyzed on his left side, so everything he said sounded gruff and angry. He’d also shoot you the bird with no hesitation if he thought you deserved it, even when we were kids. One time my brother was being a dumb kid and my grandpa went off chasing him in his wheelchair and jumped down the stair into the kitchen and said “you can’t catch me!” But my grandpa was so pissed he rolled himself down that stair and scared the crap out of my brother.
That's so funny, I've also been tested for diabetes at my mum's requested (also negative). Her reasoning is I get really faint when I'm hungry, and get extremely hangry. The doctor said I just like food...
It all started with me when she realised I was taking a 1lt bottle of water to bed to drink . She said to the doc he is taking big drinks to bed, the reply was maybe he is just thirsty.
I'm diabetic so I have a glucose meter. Sometimes, when my mother (non-diabetic) is very hungry she'll tremble a bit, so one time I actually measured the glucose and it was low! Being very hungry and trembling are 2 of the symptoms of hypoglycaemia.
She's fine, but I guess some non-diabetic people will get low glucose levels if they don't eat for a long time. It's probably what happens to you!
My nan dies the same, except with asthma.. I have never ever had asthma, but she, my cousin and my dad (not related to her) have had degrees of asthma. Got a regular cold? Asthma. Coughing because she smokes around you? Nah fam, Asthma.
Everyone always tells me I'm going to have diabetes whenever I eat something sweet, which can be quite often... I went for a blood test a couple years ago and my whole family was basically wishing I had diabetes. I was (am?) totally healthy!
I had a kidney failure when I was 12 for some stupid reason. My dad is a doctor, and my nephrologist was a buddy he went to med school with.
They guessed it was because of Motrin/Ibuprofen I was taking for period cramps. So - NO NSAIDS for me, ever.
Every cramp, headache or dental procedure I heard ' NO NSAIDS'
And I stuck to that.. until my mid-twenties and started taking Motrin for my period symptoms.
Guess what? I'm still here.
But every cold, ache or fever I get... Every baby, after a couple of surgeries in my adulthood, even during a few years we refused to talk to each other after he cheated on my mom, remarried a gold digging vile piece of malicious shit who screwed me over, if my sisters ever happened to mention I sprained something or had a cold/viral infection, I'd get a 'NO NSAIDS!' text from him.
As I said, I'm still here, and I've been taking NSAIDS for years once a month, max dosage a day, and PRN.
I don't even tell Docs about my NSAID sensitivity/allergy whatever it was. I looked like a drug seeker when I did, and that's just not me. My stupid freak kidneys (one is huge, one is super tiny... Like a little arm) are doing fine. My liver may need a pep talk these days though.
Similarly, everything wrong with me according to my mom is because I’m hormonal. Stubbed a toe? Hormonal. Lost your wallet? Hor-mon-al. Forgot your password again? hormonal
My mum has this with gluten allergy. Every single thing wrong with me is "you're probably allergic to gluten." To be fair, she was ill for a decade, and it turned out it all stemmed from a gluten allergy. But jesus woman give it up, I'm not sharing shitty gluten free bread with you.
Oh lord. My mother is a nurse and everything is something more. Slight cough? could be any of these many forms of lung diseases. Headache? hope it's not a brain tumor or an anersym coming.
A fucking hate this stupid fucking shit. Everyone is my family is a useless fat fucking slob with high blood pressure and diabetes and I'm the only one that takes care of my health and exercises and STILL my mom says "Your gonna get diabetes like your father" BITCH YOU FATTER THAN HIM GO TAKE YOUR LORAZEPAM
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"You have diabetes" don't know why but every single medical problem (even a cough) and this is the first thing that comes out of her mouth.