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What's your favourite hypo cure?

  • Jelly Babies (35%, 28 Votes)
  • Fruit Pastilles (24%, 19 Votes)
  • Lucozade (19%, 15 Votes)
  • Hope & prayer (10%, 8 Votes)
  • Maple syrup sucked directly from tree (6%, 5 Votes)
  • Gross HypoStop gel stuff (6%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 79

How do you react when people ask about your diabetes?

  • Shrug and say "it's nothing" (43%, 23 Votes)
  • Dare them, just dare them, to say anything inacurate about diabetes (26%, 14 Votes)
  • Get out PowerPoint presentation and start to lecture on differences between T1 & T2 (21%, 11 Votes)
  • Burst our crying at the unfairness of having an incurable chronic condition (8%, 4 Votes)
  • Deny that you have diabetes (2%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 53

What do you think is the most neglected element of diabetes treatment?

  • Psychological support (57%, 26 Votes)
  • Availability of technology (33%, 15 Votes)
  • Carb counting education (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Foot checkups (4%, 2 Votes)
  • I think diabetes treatment is perfect! (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Pregnancy support (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Eye screening (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 46

If you had a million pounds to spend on only one diabetes-related issue, what would it be

  • Research to find a cure (50%, 37 Votes)
  • Massive, wild party for diabetics only (30%, 22 Votes)
  • Develop new pens, meters, etc. (14%, 10 Votes)
  • Develop new, better insulins (4%, 3 Votes)
  • Donate to diabetes charity (2%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 74

Aside from routine appointments, how many times have you been hospitalised as a result of diabetes?

  • Never (41%, 53 Votes)
  • Only once (35%, 45 Votes)
  • Quite a few times (14%, 18 Votes)
  • Never, I just keep trying to bite the paramedics until they leave me alone (8%, 10 Votes)
  • Loads of times (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Hospital is my second home (0%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 130

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