When were you told a cure is coming?
I often hear people sharing that when they were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, their doctors sometimes (often) told them a rather specific time-frame for a cure - in the next 5 years, in the next 10 years....it surprises me, as I was never told anything of the sorts. "Diabetes is a life-long chronic disease, and that's that" was the message pretty much.
Maybe I did not have the most optimistic doctor...but I wonder what is worse - given hope for a cure that is not met, or not being told anything at all?
What did your doctor say when you were diagnosed?
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Permalink Reply by kphil06 on -
I was diagnosed 10 years ago and was told there would be a cure in 10 years back then. Looks like (according to my first endo at least) 2012 will be a really big year for all of us then! HAHAHA.
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Permalink Reply by Equestrian on -
I was diagnosed in 1968. The doctors told my parents my life expectancy was 20 years. I have outlived four endocrinologists and I completed a marathon last year. So much for their predictions. Doctors also make predictions on cure dates so that parents have some sort of hope. In 1968, The prediction for a cure was 5 years.
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Permalink Reply by Doris D on -
I got that prediction too. It didn't fall too well with me seeing that I was 10 at diagnoses and my only thought was "I will die b/f my 31st b-day.
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Permalink Reply by NatalieHodge on -
nice... the marathon, not the way off prediction in 68...
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Permalink Reply by Tom Goffe on -
When the DCCT came out I was told that it was just a matter of time.
When the Edmonton Protocol was announced (islet transplantation) I was told a year or two.
When the Minimed Paradigm came out, I was told it was a matter if time until it would be soon when it would be an automated closed loop system (just a matter of software).
{toe tapping (while I can still feel them) and lots of cricket chirping...}
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Permalink Reply by TheOneType on -
I was 4yrs old when I was Dx that was in 1990, I've had 3 Dr's total (endo's to be exact) not one has ever told me the cure is right around or anything of that sort..
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Permalink Reply by beanstock on -
This post really kind of makes me sad. I hadn't thought about it in a long time. I was DXed in 1972, when I was three years old, so I of course don't remember, but my mother later told me, rather bitterly, that the doctors had told her there would be a cure in 5 years. And then as I was seeing doctors throughout my life, I had this thought in my head that it would be in the next 5, so they must have told me that too. When I reached adulthood I was upset to realize how many 5-year periods had passed (8 at current count) and I sort of quit thinking about it all together. Why do you think this is the mantra? Did they believe it, or were they just trying to make us feel better?
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Permalink Reply by Doris D on
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I think that back then beanpole the drs thought that they would find a "cure" but as time went on they decided that it wasn't nessary in the cards.
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Permalink Reply by Jastine Tabanao on -
I was diagnosed since i was 6 years old, now I'm 24 but i never heard that diabetes can be cured, yes it can be controlled but that's it. Lifestyle change is sort of a cure but that's change we need to do to accept the situation.
My doctor never told me that, she even told me that i would have my insulin for life. From then on, i learned to love syringes and lancets :)
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Permalink Reply by Zoe on -
I agree. I think research towards a cure is a good thing, but so is the progress in treating diabetes that makes us lucky to live in 2012, not 1912. Nobody ever told me a cure would be here in 5 years, or 10, though it would be nice if it were. I was older when diagnosed. If my great niece who is 4, was diagnosed today I might think she would see a cure in her lifetime, but I'd also help her to look at things exactly like Jastine did and learn to have a good life despite D.
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Permalink Reply by Jastine Tabanao on
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thanks Zoe :) we can't change our situation, all we can do is to adjust to it. Let's keep our faith. We are lucky we have diabetes, we are all special and we are more tougher in a way that we can live our lives in spite of our condition and temptations we encounter everyday. I'm glad I found a family here too :)
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Permalink Reply by BriannaM on -
Same here. I was given 5 yrs. which was in 1995. They obviously got that one wrong. I agree though that it is easier to be told just to "deal" with it instead of being lied to about a "cure". Many younger diabetics wait for the announcement and get very disappointed when it doesn't come.
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