This is all over the diabetes online community and may have already been posted about on here, but I'm going to chime in with my 2 cents.
Have you heard? Halle Berry has managed to cure herself of type 1 diabetes and has beaten it down to type 2 and doesn't need insulin any more.
Isn't that a neat trick?
Perez Hilton even has something on it. You know the diabetes online community is really up in arms if it's being reported on Perez Hilton!
It's been talked almost to death, but I don't understand what Halle Berry's problem is with having diabetes. If she has type 1, is she ashamed of that? If it's type 2, shouldn't she be out there saying "Look! It's not a fat disease! Thin people who eat well and exercise a lot can also get type 2!
Instead she says things like this: "I've managed to ween myself off insulin, so now I like to put myself in the Type 2 category." Well, you'd better hope you're a Type 2, otherwise, with no insulin, you're going to be a type dead. This is the kind of ignorance I just had to deal with this week. Someone with Halle Berry's high profile should not be saying such stupid things to reporters. If she doesn't know which type of diabetes she has, she needs to find a better doctor. And in the meantime, she needs to shut her mouth.
NICE! YOU GO GIRL! Tell it like it is and how you see it! Excellent post Julia :) Thank You.
"Well, you'd better hope you're a Type 2, otherwise, with no insulin, you're going to be a type dead." Great line, Julia.
I've been over to Perez Hilton's site myself. Have you read the comments? It astounds me how many people want to argue with people who have type 1 that they can, in fact, wean themselves off of insulin.
Even more disturbing are the people who say that they themselves "used to have Type 1" and they don't have to take insulin anymore.
I'm all for educating, but reading that makes the task seem even more daunting. I thought I just needed to educate the general public. But, it seems that there are plenty in the diabetic community that don't know much about their disease as well.
this is insane! i'm going to his blog right now to read more!!
The really bad part is reading all the ignorance on the commonts on Perez's website. Some of us "smart" ones are out there posting, but mostly, it is just people saying stuff like "herbs" and "holistic care" and other stuff like that. They truly have NO IDEA! It blows my mind.
I have never heard anything so preposterous. If we all tried to "ween" ourselves off diabetes, many of us would be type dead in days. I've often noticed that Halle Berry seems ashamed of her diabetes, and it bothers me that someone so high profile who could be advocating the disease hides behind it. She obviously had a misdiagnoses. Thank you for this blog!
Contact the Entertainment Industry Foundation, for whom Halle is a diabetes spokesperson, to complain about this. If it wasn't a reporter's misquote (possible), then this group - who states that their mission is to educate people and raise awareness about diabetes and other health and social issues - should know about it.
http://www.eifoundation.org/national/da/
http://www.eifoundation.org/contact/
I don't know much about Halle's diabetes, but could it be that she is in the honeymoon phase of type 1 or that she could be classified with MODY instead?
bjpdba - it could be, although she's had it for 15 or so years, so I doubt it. She was dxd in her early 20s and I believe she's close to 40 now.
If there really is a question as to what type, then she shouldn't be a spokesperson for Novo Nordisk and she should clarify that when she speaks in public about her diabetes. To say that she weaned herself off insulin and is now a type 2 is ridiculous and potentially harmful, to herself and to anyone who believes they can do what she did.
Just because the medical institute says there are no cures to diabetes doesn't mean that there isn't one out there. How much money would be lost and how many drug companies would go out of business if there was a cure. How many people in those professions do you think want to cure you. I have had many friends use the holistic approach and not only stop the insulin but stop all of the medication and they did not change their excercise or eatting habits. You can explain away a couple but not all of them. I think having a closed mind and saying that the internal medical community is doing everything to help you and your disease is very naive and dangerous to the rest of us who have a little hope of a cure some day.