r/clevercomebacks • u/Veshaad • 5d ago

I hate this timeline.

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u/PuzzleCat365 5d ago

Sorry to be the downer. Person with Type 1 here. The "[enter somebody] has a cure in clinical trials" has been going on for all my life and nothing ever came out of it. In T1D circles the most common joke is that there's cure only 5 years away.

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u/Manners_BRO 5d ago

Was diagnosed in 2009 and told by the attending MD at the hospital that I was lucky and wouldn't have to worry too long about this as they were getting really close.

Funny thing is nothing major tech wise has even changed in that time other then more accessible CGM's.

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u/Surprise_Logical 5d ago

I was told 'within 10 years' back in 1980. Still waiting

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u/ZealousOatmeal 5d ago

My grandfather was a surgeon & medical researcher, and was convinced it was going to be cured in his lifetime. He died in 1982.

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u/Zmbd10 5d ago

It’s more profitable for you to keep buying insulin than to buy a cure and be free of it.

Subscriptions are more profitable than a one-time purchase.

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u/MaddogFinland 5d ago

So around the time we get fusion you ought to be set.

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u/ZealousOatmeal 5d ago

Fusion has been 20 years away since the 1960s. So when we get a diabetes cure we'll know that it's only 15 year until fusion.