Common Question: Can Diabetes Be Reversed or Cured?
If you live with diabetes of any kind, you likely have been offered some kind of 'cure' or advice on reversing your diabetes. This may be in the form of a 'book you should read' or a 'spice you should eat' or it could be as out there as visiting some doctor in the hillside of Scotland for a cure. Regardless what these people are offering, please know that as of right now there is NO CURE for diabetes. There is no Harry Potter Wand Pointing Spell, magic unicorn pixie dust on your oatmeal, or big green vegetable out there to cure your diabetes nor reverse the diagnosis.
I get so many spam comments (on this very blog) in my inbox, along the side of of my personal Facebook, insisting that there is a cure out there. I get people in person telling me about their friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend who was cured of diabetes. I get people throwing the pyramid scheme shakes towards my way promising of diabetes reversal and all that is great.
Ahh, and what a life it would be to be cured or reversed (or flipped, turned, set on a different life path diabetes free...) but that isn't happening. It isn't happening today, and likely won't happen for awhile. I combat this 'cure spam' by recognizing that it is false information. I decide if I want to cast my energy on education or not and I move on. I know what makes my diabetes better for myself, not cured, but better and I will stick with that.
Ahh, and what a life it would be to be cured or reversed (or flipped, turned, set on a different life path diabetes free...) but that isn't happening. It isn't happening today, and likely won't happen for awhile. I combat this 'cure spam' by recognizing that it is false information. I decide if I want to cast my energy on education or not and I move on. I know what makes my diabetes better for myself, not cured, but better and I will stick with that.
Kayla
One of the biggest reasons juvenile onset/type 1 diabetes won't be cured is because the drug companies are too happy to keep all of on the insulin we need to live. If all of us stop needing the insulin they are currently charging us an arm and a leg, even with insurance, they'd have to find another way to bring in their profits.
ReplyDeleteI've heard since my diagnosis in 1965 that it'll be just ten years there'll be a cure. Then every five or ten years, it comes up again. I've decided I'm not going to hope for a cure. If it happens if does. I'm not going to plan for one. Things have gotten a lot better in the self care of juvenile onset/type 1 diabetes since my diagnosis.
The drug companies aren't allowing it to happen. This is my opinion, take it or leave it.
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