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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child and I both have T1 diabetes. The dexcom has really been life changing in the exhausting soul-crushing constant management of this horrific chronic disease and I find it….distasteful that it could become a bio hacking or weight loss tool for rich people. [/quote]

+1. I am T1 as well and I completely agree. [/quote]

what on earth?? So you're upset because people are using these monitors to AVOID the "horrific chronic disease" you have?  You yourself said it is "soul crushing" and "exhausting". Why would you even think this way?  Also where do you get off saying it's for "rich people"?  I'm going to assume you wrote this during a time of high frustration. But please give some thought to what I just said. [/quote]

First of all, T1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that cannot be prevented. And it is horrific and requires literal constant management for the rest of your life to avoid complications and early death. You cannot take a day off. You can’t just eat the right things and exercise.

I’m the original PP who finds it distasteful. I’m not upset, I just think it’s distasteful. It’s like choosing to have a feeding tube when you don’t need one so you can control the amount of calories you take in so you can lose weight. Just kind of weird. [/quote]

Ahh, I see.  You think that T2 is purely a moral failing. Look, I get that T1 sucks, and that you’re jealous of people with T2 and angry that they can “just eat the right things and exercise”.  You think they don’t deserve any support to help them achieve an end that is, unfairly, not achievable for you.

Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, I guess. And I’m entitled to find it distasteful that you sneer at people who are using every tool they can to avoid the destruction of their beta cells. Whatever helps people control their blood sugar, preserve their pancreatic functions, and avoid diabetes is good for them and good for society. Everyone should have access to tools that help them stay healthy, even if you think there’s a morally superior way for them to get there. [/quote]

I literally posted right above this that I would never tell a T2 diabetic that it’s their fault or they only need to eat right and exercise to prevent their diabetes. But it’s a fact that the vast majority have the option to do so and not be insulin dependent! I’m definitely not jealous because T2 diabetics face a much bigger and IMO unfair stigma.

Why are you so mad? I’m not hoarding the CGMs.[/quote]

So why did you feel the need to drop into this thread to tell people how weird and distasteful it is for prediabetics to use a CGM to help them avoid T2? [/quote]

Did you notice this is in the diet and exercise forum? So it follows that the discussion is about using the CGM as a diet and weight loss tool. That’s what PP is criticizing.[/quote]
Why not? It's just a tool. People use scale to measure weight and food, fitness trackers to monitor activity, heart rate, sleep patterns, even oxigen level. Why not to include blood sugar levels?
I don't get the point of pp who criticizes it - are we in USSR with CBM shortages when they have to be distributed to select few? [/quote]

I’m really curious why you’re so defensive about this. 2, maybe 3 T1 diabetics very lightly criticized the use of CGM as a diet and weight loss tool. For folks who have no choice but to constantly monitor their blood glucose or else they will literally die, it makes us roll our eyes to see people playing with it to lose weight like it’s not an expensive medical device. No one is trying to stop you from using it. Why does that bother you so much?[/quote]

Not the poster you’re replying to, but it’s weird that you’re trying to flip it around to redirect this conversation to how PP is being “defensive” about your “light criticism”.  You dropped by to sneer at the way other people take care of their health. The fact that you will DIEEEEEEE without your CGM has nothing to do with this discussion, and it certainly doesn’t give you license to “lightly criticize” without being called on it. [/quote]

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