I think that most people could appreciate the care and effort from somebody else wishing the best for them, but I personally (and many of the folks from /r/diabetes_t1) wouldn’t appreciate somebody suggesting how they should improve on managing their new disease. Everyone goes through the adjustment process differently and that honestly could be more of a setback.

But I will say I was misdiagnosed as t2 for several months until I visited with an endocrinologist who ordered the right tests to differentiate between the two (c Peptide to determine insulin production and an antibody test to determine autoimmunity).

Now I don’t know what your relationship with your coworker is, but I wouldn’t say anything unless they asked for any input. I understand the frustration of seeing somebody not doing well in managing their issues but this is really a “they need to help themselves before you can help them”.

It is incredible just how many secondary conditions it brings out. I’ve been following the uptick in autoimmune diabetes (t1) as the pandemic wears on, I am among the people who were diagnosed in that timeframe so this is partially a selfish interest.

But again I’m struck by just how many things get brought on, I get that it is an incredibly challenging disease for the body to handle and it seems to get into so many systems from the brain to the endocrine. We will be seeing new articles about these things and long covid for a long time it seems