Are there any diabetese patients on myLot?

my granddaughter who is 3 has had diabetes type 1 for the past year, her pancreas does not work at all,so she will be insulin dependant all her life. you do need to watch what he eats, not sugary things, luckily for my granddaughter she is so young that she does not know anything else. she has insulin 3 times a day now.i hope things work out for you and your husband there is a lot of help now available for diabetes, so do not despair. good luck

My mother-in-law is known as Insulin champion. She is 70 and from the age of 35 she has been diabetic. My father-in-law is a doctor and because of his care, she is in one piece. As I learnt from them, the following are important: 1. Periodic check up of blood-sugar 2. There is another test (bit expensive) blood and urine test which can tell story for last 6 months. 3. Physician's guidelines are important particularly in suggesting latest tablets. 4. Food control is very important, keep away fatty foods, cholesterol inviting foods (oil-based). 5. Drink lot of water 6. Eat protein based foods and vegetables 7.More important is to burn cabohydrates with rigorous exercises - best is jogging, if age does not permit, brisk walk and swimming is wonderful. Diabetic is not fully curable, but can be kept in check.

Hi sherinek. I'm sorry to hear of your husband's ailment. I'm sorrier to hear he is not taking care of that. Telling anyone 'not to worry' is not going to stop the worry. Taking care of the problem is going to stop the worry. You can tell your husband I said that I think him foolish not to have this problem checked. My father always has said to me, "Hershe, if you don't have your health, you have nothing." I believe this to be a true statement. Good luck to you both.

I do hope that you can get your husband to understand that it is essential that he take care of his health, and that means monitoring his sugar levels through tests sherinek. Do a search on the web and print out what you find then give it to him to read. It might make him listen and act, because although it might not be a serious problem now, it is what happens in the long term. Diabetes can do damage to internal organs, so he should be extremely careful. Good luck and I hope you can convince him to take the tests for his own sake as well as that of his children.

Well, I have been Diabetic now myself for quite a few yrs. Many of these were not too bad, and I needed very little help to keep things under control. Then I ended up hurting myself and getting a Chronic wound that took yrs. to get healed up, and almost ended up with me loosing my leg. The Best suggestion I can share for you with your husband, is to make sure he is seeing a Doctor that really knows about Diabetes in general, and will be willing to work with him and you, and answer any Questions you might have. Find out what is the best foods, etc. and make sure his Blood sugar levels are under control. If you have too, do a search in Yahoo groups for some Good Diabetic groups. If you need to talk anymore or need other advice feel Free to add me to your Friends list, and Ask me anything you need help on.

No I Think Im Not a diabetese Patient.Im Alright Wht About u.