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Managing Your Diabetes

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Author: Adem

Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, diabetes must be managed. You can't simply ignore it and hope it goes away. It isn't going to go away, and if you don't manage your diabetes and manage it well, it can kill you. Oh, diabetes is never listed as the CAUSE of death, but it is very, very often listed as the underlying cause or a contributing factor to death.

Diabetes affects the whole body. It's not like a sore toe that's localized and will simply get better. Diabetes that is untreated, unchecked, and unmanaged can cause loss of sight, kidney disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke — shall I go on?

Diabetes is a serious disease, but it doesn't have to cause death. Diabetes can be controlled. Diabetics can live long, healthy, productive, happy lives. Some of the most famous and accomplished people that you know are diabetic.

Rule #1: Test your blood glucose level as often as your doctor has told you to check it. If he said check it six times a day, that didn't mean "six times a day if it's convenient." It meant six times a day whether it's convenient or not.

Rule #2: Stick with the diet that has been prescribed for you. Try to remember that we should eat to live and not live to eat. If you are on a restricted-calorie or restricted-carbohydrate diet, follow the diet.

Rule #3: Exercise religiously. Do not let anything prevent you from getting your prescribed exercise each and every day. Exercise like your life depends on it — because it does.

Rule #4: Take your medicine exactly as prescribed. Don't skip or postpone doses. If you need an insulin injection NOW, then give yourself an insulin injection NOW — not maybe later, when you get around to it.

Diabetics can and do love very long and healthy lives — IF they manage their diabetes well!









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