What is having diabetes like?

It will mostly affect your diet. You have to be careful what you eat, you have to be careful about carbohydrates. So no spaghetti dinners, no sandwiches on French rolls, no half a carton of ice cream for dessert.

Exercise is also very important, but by 'exercise' we don't mean huffing and puffing and sweating at the gym. Long walks 3 times a week, or a 45 min. bike ride is fine. I was just not an exercising type of person so m Dr. suggested I get an MP3 player and just wander around the neighborhood, which I did, and in a short time it was like a mild addiction. Now I ride a bike and I can go a lot farther and faster for the same effort.

You have to get blood tests every six months or so to check your progress, also they watch things like cholesterol, liver and kidney function, etc. You should have your eyes thoroughly checked out by an ophthalmologist every year or two also to check for retinopathy (which makes you go blind).

I am actually healthier overall now than when I was diagnosed, because I'm eating more carefully and getting exercise. I've lost a lot of weight also. They say the way to live a long, healthy life is to get a life-threatening disease and take good care of it.

It might not be a bad idea to adopt a careful diet and exercise regimen BEFORE you get diabetes. It may delay full-on diabetes or prevent it altogether. Also most people who are diagnosed with diabetes have already done some serious damage to themselves--they don't go to the doctor until they're having 'complications', and then the complications can't be helped. So at least you'd avoid that.

It's pretty awful. Since I got diabetes, I find I fart almost continuously.

It basically forces you to pick between eating right or having poor health.

But, even a diabetic can still have an occasional treat. A diabetic can still eat anything they want to. BUT, they need to consider the SIZE of the serving and the total carbohydrates that they are eating. Being diabetic is not just about eating too much sugar. Carbohydrates become sugar in the blood, so all carbohydrates need to be counted. It is just as easy to end up with high sugar levels caused by pasta instead of by candy.

Many type 2 diabetics can control their sugar levels with diet, exercise, and pills without needing injections of insulin.

Not fun. You cannot eat anything you like. You can only eat what you do not like. It may make you go blind. You will probably die early from heart disease. You may injure you foot and have to have it amputated. You will become impotent early. You may suffer liver and kidney damage, and tire easily.

So, instead setting on your dead a$$ and waiting to die. GET UP AND DO SOMETHING. NO ONE is limiting your activity except YOU. if you get diabetes it is YOUR FAULT, and no one elses.

Having diabetes will make a HUGE change in your lifestyle. Diabetes causes amputation, and it is damned hard to get around in a wheel chair! Plus, a wheel chair makes it EXTREMELEY hard to get a girl or boyfriend.

Diabets causes nerve damage, and nerve danage makes it impossible tovce sex. When you get diabetes, forget about sex.

Diabets casues kidney failoure. You can get a kiey transplant (which costs MORE THAN $750,000), but youi might have tow ait for 3 or 4 YEASR to get one. While you are waiting, you will be on DIALYSIS. Int his painful procedure, th stick two rather large needles into your veins. Theyu punp blood OUT of one vein, and clean it with an artificial kidney machine, which is about the size of a small refridgerator. The clean blood comes oput of the machine, and goes back into your arm through the other needle.

All in all, you spend abouit 4 hours a day,3 days a week. a REAL SOCIAL LIFE KILLER!!!! When youa re not "wired" to the dialyusis machiner, you feel sick all the time, and just wanmt to go to bed and sleep.

But dopn;t worry -- it wont last long. Diabetes causes heart attacks and strokes! Often the kill most of the time they don' mean you will almost lvioe in the hospital. NO BODY want to come see you there!

But what if you have one of those strokes that leaves you "vegetative" (like a mindless vegetable)? They stick an IV needle in your arm to feed you sugar water from a bag. You pee in a bag. You forget how to poop because you not eating any real food. And all you can say is "uhwuh uhwuh", if you are not setting around drooling.

GET OFF YOUR DEAD A$$, GET ACTIVE, LEARN A HEALTHY DIET, AND PREVENT DIABETES!

almost no symptons that's why they call it the silent killer.

I am healthier now being type 2 diabetic than the years I was before being diagnosed when I had a terrible diet, no exercise and overweight, I now stick to healthy eating and basic exercise and I have lost 28lbs and never get a cold or flu and haven't had a day of work in over 10 years

if you dont have it you might be able to prevent it, just try not to eat so much sugar and keep your weight down, im prediabetic and ive been losing weight cause i dont want to end up with it

Type 2 diabetes is easily prevented and reversed, It just a matter of reducing your carbohydrate intake.
Intermittent fasting also helps (going 12 to 16 hrs without eating and not drinking sweet drinks)

It is horrible. You feel like a prisoner. TRAPPED.