Type II Diabetes

How does type 1 diabetes affect you

Physical:

Intellectual:

Emotional:

Social:

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Physically: My thighs hurt from the shot I get at night that stings. Sometimes a shot won’t go in right, or I get a bleeder. My fingers are covered in calluses and sometimes are really painful. Measuring out my food helps me take control of my serving sizes and stops me from eating chips on the couch for an entire day. I won’t be overweight anytime soon.

Intellectually: I had never learned about diabetes before. I thought you got it from eating too much sugar and being fat. I thought you never had a low blood sugar when you had diabetes, and if you did, it was gone. Then, I spent three days in the hospital getting diagnosed. Those days have changed my life forever. I am a lot smarter. I know a lot more about diabetes (everything!).

Emotionally: I cry a lot for everything. I cry for the pain. I cry because I know it won’t ever end. I cry because I know that if it ever does end, it’ll probably end in surgery. I cry because I know I have lost years from my life. I cry because I know if I have this for the rest of my life, my nerves will be less. My kidneys will suffer, my eyes will suffer, my skin will suffer, my extremities will suffer. I cry because it could result in amputation. I cry because I know many others are crying.

Social: I meet other friends with diabetes, sometimes. www.tudiabetes.com helps me with that a lot. But sometimes people don’t approach me because of how I might be contagious (which I, and everyone who has diabetes, am not!). People think I am weird, sickly, strange. I am not. I am a normal person with a disease. A hidden disease.

Your vision gets blurry, or like in my case when my sugar was high, it got blurry, really bad, I thought I was going blind. When my sugar started coming down my eyesight started to improve, but got blurry again when my blood sugar got to a certain plateau (but still not where it should be) Finally, when I got my blood sugar under good control, my eyesight was normal again.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO RID YOURSELF FROM TYPE 2 DIABETES THROUGH DIET EXERCISE AND WEIGHT LOSS????

Not "get rid of" per se, but you have a very good chance of being able to have normal (non-diabetic) blood sugars, possibly without medication, if you catch it early on and make the effort.

Follow a healthy diet and watch portions, lose any excess weight, and exercise at least 45 min. 5x per week.

Some people find supplements such as chromium and cinnamon can also help.

Contrary to popular belief, Type 2 diabetes does NOT have to be a progressive disease if the proper lifestyle changes are made early on. Unfortunately, some doctors would rather hand out pills than give healthy living advice.

My first born was healthy, as was I. My second born was born with hypoglycemia and had to stay in the NICU for several days before I could take him home. I am now 3 1/2 months pregnant with my third. What would be the chance of me getting the gestational diabetes again?

The chances are a lot higher. You are supposed to have the 1 hour glucose test right when you find out your pregnant as opposesd to the standard 24 weeks(I forget when the actual time when every mom is checked). I just had a baby 5 months ago and had gestaional diabetes and this is what they told me at the class they made us take. Start checking your blood sugars now before your next appointment with the doctor.

My daughter (13 years) who is diabetic since last 3 and a half months takes only 4 units of levemir insulin per day, doctors say that she may be going through honeymoon period. How long it can lost or is there some hope….?

It depends on the person. I’ve been diabetic for 28 yrs my honeymoon period lasted almost 2-yrs. Unfortunatley… I think when you ask if there is hope that you mean she doesn’t really have diabetes….She does I was hoping the doctors were wrong too. Good news is that there has been some really great advances in treatments and regulating blood sugar levels. Make sure she tests her glucose often to keep her levels in a normal range. I test 6 times a day. It’s is difficult sometimes…but in the long run she will be healthier. Give her a lot of encouragement…. teenage years are difficult enough but even harder when you’re trying to deal with managing diabetes. I’m hoping a cure is close. I am positive that she will beneifit from all the research done and that a cure will be developed within the next few years!

Two months or so ago, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. A few days ago (and a little bit for a few weeks), I started getting this awful weakness in my legs and arms. Sometimes it feels like they’re heavy, like I’ll flip. Or they’re too light and I’ll flip over. It feels like I’m going to fall down. I know this is something that can come out of diabetes… but this is really soon! Is it even related? Should I call my doctor/educators? How do they treat this?

Thanks!

no, that’s not normal. you shouldn’t develop secondary complications in two months! speak to your doc about this. It doesn’t sound like neuropathy because that is normally a pins and needles type sensation or numbness.

My father has it. I think I may have it now.

Weight loss, very very thirsty, high blood sugar over 200, tingling and burning in my feet and toes. Please go have your blood sugar checked by your doctor. It’s simple and easy. The sooner the better. God Bless.

I’m talking both baked and boiled. How about sweet potatoes?

Potatoes are high in carbs and type 2 diabetics need to limit carb intake . The best way to determine how much he can eat is to test his blood before the meal and then 1 hour and 2 hours after the meal. If he stays below 140-150 on both of the after meal readings he can eat them. However if he goes over 150 he should either eat less or skip the potatoes. The butter is not going to affect his blood glucose.

Sweet potatoes are better than regular potatoes on not spiking as high.

That is for type 1 but what about type to? What causes type 1 and type 2 diabetes?

Some of the above answers are incorrect.

Type I – genetic, usually triggered by an outside virus – your own white blood cells attack healthy, insulin-producing beta cells, thinking they are not YOUR cells (like they are part of the intruding virus), so the pancreas’ beta cells no longer produce any (or maybe a TINY bit) insulin because they have been attacked.

Type II – generally, a lack of exercise and a poor diet make it difficult for insulin to enter cells, so the pancreas produces insulin at a normal or perhaps slower rate, and then medicine is helpful for letting the insulin interact with cells to let sugar in.

So – type I is NOT caused by too much sugar, but type II may be!

I will have the normal test for gestational diabetes at 28 weeks. how much blood is typically drawn for this test?

2 tubes or something like that .

( small tubes )