Diabetes is a very complex thing to understand. A lot of the public’s perception of it is that you need insulin and you shouldn’t eat sugar – full stop! Live with it for a few months – or even a few weeks – though, and it quickly becomes obvious that it is oh so much more than that! We are learning new things all the time, whether we have been diagnosed for a day or a decade. Ideas of the best approach to treatments change all the time, new things come along, old ways are consigned to the dustbin of history, and our bodies decide that they will cohort with the Diabetes Fairy to bamboozle us on the simplest of everyday events – so nothing is ever set in stone.
However, with time and experience comes wisdom, and there are aphorisms we can employ to ease the path of those who follow – a list of ‘Dos and Don’ts’ that hold true for the most part, although they are always subject to change! This thread is about such enlightened realisations – the things we now know that we wish had been in the manual from Day 1, although we may not have understood them then, or possibly even believed them to apply to us. Examples are ‘Don’t assume diabetes is all about sugar – it’s about carbs!’, ‘If it tastes like full sugar coke, it probably IS full sugar coke!’, ‘You will make mistakes, don’t beat yourself up, and move on’ – you get the idea!
A fine collection from our members that merits reading again at those times when everything seems to be going haywire or at the very least, unpredictable – read it and nod, sagely…
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