Today, I ordered a Diet Coke with my meal from a fast food restaurant. Turns out, they didn't give me diet. My blood sugar spiked and I was sick for hours later. I'm a diabetic. FML
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Today, while on a date, I accidentally ordered "diet water" instead of saying "diet coke". FML
Today, while at work, I suddenly went into diabetic shock. As I was nearly passed out on the floor, a customer yelled at me for not getting his coffee in time. FML
Today, at lunch I ordered a Coke. The waiter replied, "Diet Coke?" and I corrected him saying, "No, regular Coke." He shook his head and said again, "Diet Coke." FML
Today, my waiter turned to me and asked, "Let me guess, Miss I'm-not-fat-I'm-fluffy wants a Diet Coke?" FML
Today, my boyfriend and I decided to stop by a drive-thru on the way to his place. I asked him to order a Coke for me, at which point he asked if I wanted to make it a Diet Coke. FML
Today, my manager gave me hell for leaving the restaurant early yesterday. Guilty as charged, but only because I was rushed to the hospital after going into diabetic shock. This assmunch is convinced that I either faked it all to get off work early, or that I'd been eating our own stock. FML
Today, I was proud of myself for buying the lowest calorie option at a Subway that I could walk to. By the time I managed to get there my blood sugar severely crashed (it didn't help that two people in front of me were ordering subs for their family and coworkers). I ended up buying six cookies to stave off the crash. FML
Today, I took a test as part of a job requirement. I took a sip from a bottle of juice, and the lady leading the test gave me a warning. I tried to explain that if I didn't, I would faint. She took the bottle and hid it. 15 minutes later I collapsed. She thought I was faking. I'm hypoglycemic. FML
Today, after a very long day, I got home from the swimming pool at 10:30 pm. I didn’t have dinner, I was super hungry, so I ordered a pizza while walking back home. 35 minutes later, only a can of coke arrived. Apparently, I that's all I actually ordered. FML
Today, due to increasing frequency and severity of hypoglycemic symptoms, I went to the doctor. Apparently, the pill may have given me a rare form of temporary diabetes. She wants me to be a case study for the next 12 months. FML
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Sarcastic_Lady 0
Couldn't you taste the difference?
Ommis 0
go spike their drinks with insulin.
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LilaBear 2
Geez there are a lot of idiots on here shooting their mouths off. I don't profess to be an expert on diabetes or anything, but I know this much... 1) Some diabetics do not have as good a sense of taste as the rest of us. It is quite plausible that if his taste has been affected by his illness, or if he simply doesn't drink soda very often, he might not have recognised the difference between diet and regular. Also post-mix coke that's been too watered down can taste like diet sometimes. So stop with the "fake, you would have tasted the difference". 2) Sometimes it isn't as easy as just having an extra shot of insulin. Some people do not use insulin shots as treatment for their diabetes, and some people with really unstable diabetes will take a lot longer to pull out of a hyper/hypo even if they have treated themselves. So stop with the "YDI you should have just had extra insulin". 3) There is more to the world than America. Just coz most American restaurants allow you to fill your own cup doesn't mean that restaurants everywhere else do the same. I know in Australia most fast-food outlets don't allow you to fill up, and from the comments on here, it sounds like it's the same in France. So you can stop with the "Fake/YDI everywhere lets you fill your cup yourself". 4) Just coz he's eating at a fast food outlet doesn't mean he's eating unhealthy stuff. Maybe he had a salad, or just a kid's sized burger. Or maybe he was just having a snack, like a small fries. So stop with the "YDI for eating fast food". Besides, it's not that outrageous to expect your order to be filled properly for regular people with regular orders, so I think someone whose health is at risk has even more right to be upset when their order is not filled properly. If someone with a peanut allergy went to a restaurant and specifically requested a meal without peanuts, but then got served peanuts in their meal, would you say "YDI for eating out"?? Of course not. The restaurant has a duty of care.
dubbleyewteeaych 0
And one more thing: hyperglycemia is the worst feeling I have ever experienced. I'll do anything I can to avoid it, and I'm sure OP feels the same way. Do you really think he could have prevented it, and was just too lazy to do so? No. I think if OP could have known and done something about it, he would have.
avalon24 18
Not all diabetics use insulin, I don't. I control mine with diet, exercise, and oral medicine.
Britt2009 0
i would definately sue them :)
lilchef09 0
yeah no i dont feel sorry for you...HELLO ive been diabetic for the last 21 yrs of my life and im only 22...a diabetic knows when the soda ISNT diet...i feel nothing for you lol
remy_xi 0
Yes, but you can plan for some amounts of sugar. He likely took twelve or so CCs of insulin and assumed there would be no sugar. Had he known, he could have bumped it to seventeen CCs, effectively neutralizing the amount of sugar entering his bloodstream.
Tawnyleona 2
Lol @CC's. 100 units of insulin = 1 cc.
emzmcgee 0
Gotta love all the people calling for the OP to sue, gotta love America! Unless it was done on purpose, and it could be proven there would be no way that would ever fly. Think about it, they screwed up a drink order, that's all. Yes it's bad because they're diabetic, but they have no way of knowing! Mistakes happen, doesn't mean you need to pull a lawsuit out of your ass every time something mildly inconvenient happens to you.
bhangu023 0
lawsuit
jollylolli 0
You couldn't taste the very obvious difference between sugary soda and fake sugar soda? If you ONLY drink diet soda, the regular soda would taste completely different!