What is the life expectancy once you`re diagnosed wiyh diabetes?
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you can live many many years as long as you take car of yourself. take the meds you need and eat right and you should live a long and happy life.
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Actually it is a lot more common than you think for people to have diabetes have have no symtoms but high glucose readings.  Please see a doctor for a fasting glucose test which will give you a better look at where you stand.  How high is high?  Do you know what the normal range is?
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Diabetes is really a non-curable disease.  There are many 'tests' and hopeful research being done at this point.  The cure is out there...someplace.  My daughter will tell you that it is in a strange lab somewhere...she was diagnosed when she was two.  There have be SOME successful transplants in adult patients...but they are on high doses of anti-rejection drugs at this point for the rest of their lives.  This would not work for children.  Their immune systems would not be able to handle this.  \nIt can be a sucky disease, but it is a lifestyle, not a disease....
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Yes, a blood sugar reading of 92 is great, but that does not mean that your daughter is not diabetic. In order to determine this for sure, consult with your doctor and have an A1c test done on your daughter. As a type 2, you know that the A1c test will give you an average for about 120 days. This will help determine whether or not your daughter's levels are running high consistently or if the 92 that you got on your own was an indicator of normal blood sugar levels. \nOther blood test will also help determine whether or not she is diabetic. \n\nWhile decreased healing is one symptom of diabetes, it could also be the symptom of something else... infection, etc. If the sores are there longer than they should be, then get them checked out by a doctor ASAP to avoid serious complications (infection, scarring, etc.). \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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The test is called an A1C and gives an average of what your blood sugar has been for the past 3 months. 173 is a little high. Ideally it should be 120-130. With Type 2 diabetes 150 is okay. Just watch your diet a little closer and you should do okay. The actual A1C reading should be less than 7 for a diabetic.
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Type 1 or 2?  If 2 check out the site below then you may be able to rid yourself of diabetes.
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No, my friend has type 2, and he is fine after a couple. Dont indulge, but ask your doctor how much you can safely have. Also, have your insulin close by incase you drink too much.
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Glucose Fasting-70-110 mg/dL.(3.8-6.1 mmol/L)\nGlucose PP/R- Upto 160 mg/dL (8.8 mmol/L)\nYour second reading 1.32 does not appear correct.\nYou should also take HbA1c test every 3 or 4 months.\nEat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Diabetes food.
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It isn't called  adult-onset any more.  It is now called Type 2 Diabetes or non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM).\n\nDiabetes often goes undiagnosed because many of its symptoms seem so harmless. Recent studies indicate that the early detection of diabetes symptoms and treatment can decrease the chance of developing the complications of diabetes.\n\n The most common symptoms are:\n\nFrequent urination \nExcessive thirst \nExtreme hunger \nUnusual weight loss \nIncreased fatigue \nIrritability \nBlurry vision\n\n\nWhile it isn't listed.  the change in smell can be from several factors:\n1) the concentration of solutes (for the purpose here=materials)changes with the increased intake of liquids\n\n2) The increase in excreted sugars can cause bacteria to grow.\n\n3)The stress on your kidneys from having high blood sugars means your kidneys are passing material (proteins) that they normally don't pass.\n\nIf you think you may be a diabetic, have your MD run a HA1C test and a glucose tolerance test.  The first measures your blood sugars for the prior 3 months.  The second measures how your body handles sugar.
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Your Mum should be contacted by the Diabetic clinic or nurse, ask them for any literature on the condition, there is also a helpline number in the phone book, they will take any questions, no matter how silly you might think them, and they will answer professionally and clearly. Type 2 diabetes is not life threatening but care is needed to keep it in check. Simple precautions like taking any medication prescribed and a sensible diet will keep her on an even keel. An extra precaution would be to get her an sos pendant. The nurse can tell you where to get one. It is just a safety measure that your Mum can wear when out on her own and it lets others know her medical conditions and how to treat her should the need ever arise. Don't worry about her though, diabetes can be managed fairly well nowadays :)
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Follow the advice I took and things should return to normal shortly after getting your blood sugar stabilized. I actually had a couple of episodes where things went dark and blurry before getting diagnosed. Just get yourself on a serious health kick and you'll be fine in no time. You should find all you need to get started on my little diabetes info webpage...\nhttp://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/Type_II_Diabetes.html
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Yes and no... \n\nDiabetes, when left untreated for an extended period of time, can be a "killer" disease. Untreated elevated blood sugar levels have harmful effects on your eyes, nervous system, kidneys, and practically every other major organ system in your body. \n\nBUT... the good news ... \n\nDiabetes is also a very controllable disease. With proper medication, diet, exercise, you can live for many, many years with the condition. Sometimes complications are inevitable, but so it is with every chronic illness out there. \nRemember to eat well, exercise, and take your medications as prescribed. Work with your doctor on coming up with a individualized treatment plan for your specific needs.
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You should get checked for diabetes.
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Take a few deep breaths and try to disengage yourself from the situation... in other words, find something to keep you busy and make you think about something else. \n\nIt may not be for everyone, but prayer is a great comfort and stress relief strategy. That's a personal decision though so that's all I will say about that. \n\nLook at it this way though... there are alot worse things that a doctor could tell you than that you are diabetic. I know it's bad enough in itself, but diabetes does not have to be a death sentence. The initial diagnosis is very scary and intimidating, but it's a very controllable condition and you can live a long, healthy, happy, and productive life with it. \n\nBeing diabetic doesn't mean that you are terminally ill. What it does mean is that you now have to make some healthier decisions and probably have to take some sort of medication. I am personally a Type 2 diabetic (I'm 24 years old) and it has changed my life, but I do not let it control my life. I still do all the things that I did before, but have made some health-conscious decisions within my lifestyle. I exercise, take medications, and watch what I eat... which are things that I should have been doing long before I got diagnosed. \n\nIf you are diagnosed, remember to keep a positive outlook. Diabetes will only control you if you let it. \n\nGood luck and best wishes... \n\nPost again and let us know what happens with your results.
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You'll get various opinions from different individuals, frankly...  You might check the American Diabetes Association for their guidelines--they are what most of us try to run by.\n\nOn the whole, ideally your fasting sugar should be 110 or less, and I like to see people in the 80-100 range most of the time.  I'm willing to settle for anything less than 125, though.  As for the postprandial sugars, I focus on the 2-hours-after-eating (or 2 hour postprandial) sugars.  Prefer to see them below 140 mg/dl; I'll tolerate them less than 160.\n\nIncreasingly, however, I tend to focus on the Hemoglobin A1c value.  That's a measure of the proportion (expressed as a percentage) of the hemoglobin that is tagged with a glucose molecule at a particular site (the 1c site on Hemoglobin A.  DUH!)  Dr. RIchard Guthrie, a decade or two ago, showed that the Hemoglobin A1c correlated very much better with the rapidity of the diabetic damage being caused than anything reasonable you could do with individual sugar readings, or with aggregate calculations of the readings over a couple of months time.\n\nDO NOT take this to indicate that the fasting and postprandial sugars are not of use; they certainly are, but they are of greatest use in recognizing the presence of complicating illnesses (on the whole, you can look at the sugars of a diabetic and use them to get a handle on the presence of an infectious process just like you can use the body temperature), and the presence of patterns in the sugars to guide in the alteration of long vs. short acting insulins to control the sugar.\n\nOK, so I'm longwinded.  I knew that.  Hope this gives you some useful insight!
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Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "pre-diabetes" -- blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 41 million people in the United States, ages 40 to 74, who have pre-diabetes. Recent research has shown that some long-term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system, may already be occurring during pre-diabetes.\n\nResearch has also shown that if you take action to manage your blood glucose when you have pre-diabetes, you can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes from ever developing. Together with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the American Diabetes Association published a Position Statement on "The Prevention or Delay of Type 2 Diabetes" to help guide health care professionals in treating their patients with pre-diabetes.\n\nThere is a lot you can do yourself to know your risks for pre-diabetes and to take action to prevent diabetes if you have, or are at risk for, pre-diabetes. The American Diabetes Association has a wealth of resources for people with diabetes. People with pre-diabetes can expect to benefit from much of the same advice for good nutrition and physical activity. The links on this page are cornerstones of successful management of pre-diabetes.
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There are many sources to look at.\n\nProbably the most user-friendly is from the American Diabetes Association.\n\nEnjoy.