subject: How To Take Charge Of Diabetes And Win The Fight - The Fight For Your Life [print this page] Diabetes if left unchecked does not just have control of the sufferer. It also affects their family and friends and robs them of their peace of mind concerning their loved one that suffers from this condition. Do you want to do that not only to yourself but also to those who love and care for you if you continue feeling powerless against diabetes and the symptoms of diabetes?
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes simply put is when there is too much glucose (simple sugars) in the blood stream that can destroy the surrounding organs and lead to many symptoms of diabetes as well as diabetes related complications including a diabetic coma that can prove fatal. This is why a lot of people call it sugar disease. The glucose is released into the blood stream through normal digestive processes and is derived from sugars or carbohydrates consumed.
Since this glucose must be removed from the blood stream and transferred to the cells, the pancreas produces a hormone called insulin. When insulin transfers this glucose to the cells in the body, this glucose provides energy for the body required for daily activities.
There are three types of diabetes, Type 1, Type 2 and gestational diabetes that affects pregnant women and can turn into Type 2 diabetes at a later stage in life.
Most people cannot do anything about type 1 because it is related to genes and all a sufferer can do is learn to properly manage diabetes and the symptoms of diabetes. It usually starts in childhood and sufferers usually require daily injections of insulin in order to be able to live. This condition results from the cells in the pancreas which through a gradual process, no longer produce any insulin because they have been destroyed and nothing can be done once destroyed to fix or restore these cells.
Why the body destroys these insulin making cells remains unknown although it is believed that the immune system mistaking them for bad cells, destroys them.
Type 2 diabetes which can also result from a family history is a little easier to manage. Despite ties to family history, this disease has become an epidemic and this is mainly due to the poor lifestyle choices made by eating unhealthily and being inactive. This type usually develops in adulthood.
In many cases properly managing type 2 diabetes and the symptoms of diabetes through lifestyle changes can keep the disease in check and type 2 diabetes can even be cured by making positive changes in your life.
With Type 2 diabetes, the body does not produce enough insulin or the body becomes resistant to the insulin produced and has no use for it. Medication to fight this insulin resistance or insulin injections are then necessary. Insulin resistance is usually at its worst with overweight and obese people.
About 4% of pregnant women are affected by gestational diabetes. Not much is known about why it develops but it is thought that the placenta hormones may block the processing of insulin by the cells which then creates insulin resistance. It usually clears after childbirth but in a few women, it may develop into Type 2 diabetes.
Fight For Your Life
Here are a few steps to properly manage whatever kind of diabetes you have as well as the symptoms of diabetes so that any complications if any, are few and far between. You do not need to feel powerless with this disease. Through your fault or no fault of your own, you have the disease and now is the time to take control. It has one goal which is to destroy your life, your body, the lives of those that love you and can even kill you but only if you let it.
Become educated about this disease and the treatments available both conventional and alternative.
Keep all your medical history together in one place that is easily accessible.
Keep this information current.
List your current doctors or any one else helping you battle diabetes and the symptoms of diabetes.
Keep an easily accessible list of the people that will need to be contacted in case of an emergency. Keep this information current as well and make sure phone numbers work. This information is important if you are admitted to a hospital or if you see new doctors. These contacts should be local.
List any other conditions you are also facing in addition to diabetes such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, allergies, etc.
List your current medications as well as other things you are taking or doing to control diabetes and the symptoms of diabetes.
List any medical emergencies you may have had with this disease if any.
List any triggers that caused you in the past to fall off the bandwagon so that you stopped doing the right things to overcome diabetes and the symptoms of diabetes. Was it stress at work? Feelings of helplessness, social issues, etc.
Constantly update the above information.
Get a special binder to keep this information and label it accordingly so that you and anyone else you designate can easily access it.
by: Terry Robbins
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