Diabetes is it the end???

Question

Hello, once diagnoised with diabetes II does that mean your stuck with it the rest of your life, that your cells will simply not go back to a normal state were they were before you were diagnoised? Or have I destroyed my cells ability to respond to insuline for the rest of my life?

Answer 1

Try a vegan diet. A recent study showed the vegan diet will reverse type-2 diabetes. See http://www.vegetarianorganiclife.com/

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Once you are diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, yes, you're stuck with it for life. I used to think it was the end, but once you comply with the treatment, you'll do a lot better than if you weren't taking care of yourself. It is an uphill battle for me, so I understand where you're coming from.

The differences in the types is that T1 (due to genetics), the body actually destroys the pancreas, rendering it useless, therefore the lifelong insulin injections and such.

In T2 (due to unhealthy lifestyle), if you're a heavyset person, the insulin your body produces no longer takes effect because your body isn't recognizing it. Diet and exercise, along with insulin and other meds, help bring your glucose levels down. If you work hard and show improvement, you can reduce or even eliminate your meds! Your body then will be more receptive to the insulin your body produces.

Answer 5

My younger brother has Diabetes Type 1 and he is in the hospital right now on life support. He suffered a heat stroke and low blood sugar. I know that a lot of you do not believe in God in Yahoo! Answers, but if you all could pray for him or think about him for a moment I would like that. His name is David. He has had Type 1 Diabetes since he was 12 and I remember when he first got it he had come home from his cousins wedding and he looked pale and thin. My step-father wanted us to go to Raging Waters after my brother came home because we had Season Passes. I said that my brother should go to the hospital because he did not look too good and he was throwing up. We went to Raging Waters and the whole time we were there he was throwing up. I did not know what to do. I was a 13 year old girl who had never really been in situations like that before. When we got him to the hospital his blood sugar was through the roof. It was way passed 100. When he went to the bathroom, his urine smelled, and he had this frail look about him. I am telling you all this because Diabetes is no laughing matter. It is serious. You can die from it and many have. My brother's great uncle, I found out, had Type 1 Diabetes when he was 4 and back in the 1910's there was no insulin. He died at the age of 4, due to lack of resources for his Diabetes. To those of you who have just found out that you have it take care of yourselves and when you see that something is terribly wrong, get to a doctor, quickly.

Answer 6

Type 2 diabetes is non insulin dependent...so for the most part your pancreatic cells are making adequate amounts of insulin, but the receptors on which the insulin acts to control sugar are defective. Although there is no permenant cure for diabetes as yet, there is a phenomenal improvment in the medical modalities that are now available for diabetics to achieve good control of their hyperglycemia. The other good news is that you control your disease to a large extent. The more you educate yourself and know the basic concepts of diabetic control, the better readings you get. Be consistent, stick to your treatment and make a few lifestyle style adjustments like losing weight. Talk to your doctor about your concerns and you will see its not that bad....Good luck.

Answer 7

Well friend all is not lost, just because you've been diagnosed. There are hundreds of thousands of people that are living relatively normal lives with this disease. I've been living with it for 16 years. I've been insulin dependant, (on the needle) all that time. I thought my life was over when I got the diagnosis, and the doc. told me I would have to inject myself, (most likely three times a day for the rest of my life.) But friend, I've learned it's all in the way you approach it. Some peoples problem can be controlled simply with diet control and exercise. Some people with what's reffered to as a lazy pancreas, (the pancreas is what normaly and naturaly makes insulin in your body) in some cases the pancreas can be coaxted into waking up with diet control. The next step in most cases is oral medications, except in the most extreme cases, (like mine). The problem as you suggested is not necessarily with your cells, (in some rare cases the bodies' refuse to recognize the insulin,) which is the key that causes the cell to open up and accept the sugar in the blood to give you energy. To belay one of your fears, diabetes does not cause cell damage, it causes nerve damage. Due to lack of insulin, or your cells refusal to recognize it, (insulin) the sugar in your blood increases, (causing hyperglycemia) that coats your nerve endings, causing numbness, (or nueropathy) which is first noticed in your extremities, (fingers and toes) if the high sugar count, m.g.d.l. (or micro grams per deci-litre) is not quickly brought under control, that's when nueropathy begins.
this numbness can be held at bay with strict control of blood sugars, which in most cases has to be done artificialy, either oraly or with needle.So to sum up my meager knowledge of diabetes, great strides are being made all the time in medications for diabetes. Heck I ran into a fellow in the hospital, in Sarasota, fl. that had undergone a pancreatic transplant, and was living a totaly normal life. I hope I have been some help in aleviating some of your concerns.
Good Luck; W.W.W. (Scooter)

Answer 8

It depends on your overall health. I have worked in dialysis for 8 years and some people control their diabetes with exercises and diet, but if you are over weight it will not get better. If the onset was caused bu obesity then there is a chance you could get better by following a diet and losing weight. Remember diet and exercise is the key to being healthy you must take care of your self because diabetes is one of the leading causes of kidney failure. Good luck!!!

Answer 9

I would say no, you're not stuck with it. I had a friend who was diagnosed with diabetes, and through diet, he reversed it. You can eliminate the need for medication if you stay focused on a healthy diet. Follow the diabetes diet. It's a lifelong lifestyle change. Talk to your doctor about it.

BTW, Halle Berry has diabetes, and she's doing well!

Answer 10

At this time there is no cure for diabetes.

However, there are many useful sites and sources for diabetes treatment. As someone who has had diabetes for 13 years I can tell you that your diet will change and your habits will probably become more routine-based than they have been.

Fortunately, this doesn't hamper my ability to do everything I did before my diagnosis. Try this site to get started:

http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/

Good luck!