have diabetes, or if you’re not managing it perfectly, it may be due to your own personal failing,” he explained.
When family or friends offer unsolicited advice, it’s typically because they’re concerned and are trying to be helpful. Yet, instead of asking how they could best help a person with diabetes, people often just “take their best guess,” Polonsky noted.
These folks often wildly miss the mark. A common complaint is that loved ones act like the “diabetes police.” They may ask: Do you need to check your blood sugar? Why is your blood sugar so high? Should you really be eating that food? Have you tried the latest diabetes “cure” I saw on the internet?
A better approach is to simply ask the person with diabetes how you can help them, Polonsky advised.
“Say ‘Hey, it looks like living with diabetes is hard. How can