What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis.
No, the unpleasant part of being diabetic is having to live every second of your life as an act of weighing how what you're currently doing is going to affect your blood sugar levels an hour for now:
- Have I been sitting in this chair too long?
- Have I not been sitting down enough this morning?
- Have I been drinking enough water?
- Did I just drink too much water?
- I haven't been to the bathroom in two hours; does this mean I'm screwed?
- If I eat a piece of toast after dinner, will I be able to have sex with my wife without going hypoglycemic?
- I'd like to go hiking, but it's hot outside and my insulin might spoil, so maybe I'll walk around the block instead.
- I just plan on going to the grocery store for 20 minutes; do I need to bring insulin in case there's a traffic jam on the way home?
Etc., etc. Pharmaceutical companies can't solve the real lifestyle problems associated with diabetes short of inventing an actual cure.
No, the unpleasant part of being diabetic is having to live every second of your life as an act of weighing how what you're currently doing is going to affect your blood sugar levels an hour for now:
- Have I been sitting in this chair too long? - Have I not been sitting down enough this morning? - Have I been drinking enough water? - Did I just drink too much water? - I haven't been to the bathroom in two hours; does this mean I'm screwed? - If I eat a piece of toast after dinner, will I be able to have sex with my wife without going hypoglycemic? - I'd like to go hiking, but it's hot outside and my insulin might spoil, so maybe I'll walk around the block instead. - I just plan on going to the grocery store for 20 minutes; do I need to bring insulin in case there's a traffic jam on the way home?
Etc., etc. Pharmaceutical companies can't solve the real lifestyle problems associated with diabetes short of inventing an actual cure.