Excellent Diabetes Control is Attainable

Kristyne McDaniel

We've all been told the horror stories about the kind of complications caused by a lack of diabetes control after a long life with the disease. It is a chronic disease with problems arising from ineffectual blood sugar level management. That lack of management manifests itself in many forms, which we've all heard about before:

• Obesity
• Circulatory degradation
• Cardio-Pulmonary disease
• Arterial disease
• Nerve damage

As an insulin dependent diabetic myself, I need to rely on a good control program. I am always worried that the medication and diet won't be enough.

I'm not trying to belittle the problems. I have a massive problem with obesity myself, and kidney failure took my father's life after diabetic retinopathy took his sight. My grandfather lost his big toe to amputation, then lost part of his foot. Who wants to be making a decision considering a toe vs. partial foot amputation in diabetes care? Many people suffer from other problems as well... impotence, phantom pains caused by the nerve damage, gout caused by the circulatory problems. It is a horrible killer. And along the way to death it can sap the strength and resolve of those afflicted.

Keeping Diabetes Under Control

But we're not on this site to focus on all the bad stuff. We're working on fighting back to squeeze every drop of life out that we can and live the best way we know how. With that in mind, I'm diligently working to collect the best resources I can find as well as writing more resources of my own to provide hope for myself and others. Diabetes does not have to lick us. We can fight it and we will not let it win.

• Exercise and Heart Health a Life Giving Marriage
• The Charcot Foot Condition - A Little Known Diabetes Complication
• How Sleep Affects Our Skin

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1995. My father died from complications of the disease, as did my father and great aunt. Family history plays an enormous role when determining a person's risk factors for diabetes. The disease has affected a number of people in my family. I am in the battle of my life with this disease. Usually I do fine with it, but every few weeks or months something happens and I feel terrible for several days or even weeks at a time, and my medications need adjustments. The disease may be chronic but it never seems to stay in a steady state.

_{This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 28, 2006}