Overall, has having diabetes had a positive or negative effect on your life?

Answer 1

Definitely positive. I've learned how to eat right, exercise regularly, and keep my weight in the 'ideal' range. Doing so has helped me maintain a consistently low blood glucose level and I feel great. No complications whatsoever... so far. Based on what I've read, I should be able to continue my good fortune for a long time as long as I keep up the diligence. I'm very sorry so many people here don't feel this way and are angered at you for asking, but I can only hope that others might see that it is possible to minimize or even avoid the complications if they would just learn to take better care of themselves. The information is out there... you just gotta go for it.

Answer 2

I don't want to sound mean but I can't imagine you being serious with this question. However, on the chance your inquiry is genuine I am providing the following. Let me warn you, this is not pretty and I won't sugarcoat it, no pun intended. This is me and my life.

My feet are numb, they have swollen from size 9 1/2 to 11, my legs hurt, my diet sucks, my hands are numb, I've lost a finger, forget about an injury healing on it's own, my left eye does anything it wants at anytime it wants to, my cholesterol is a mess (due largely to my restricted diet), my blood pressure goes through some wild swings (as low as 48/72 once), my sugar levels are crazy and do not directly reflect my dietary efforts and medication, I can only allow myself about two truly satisfying meals a year and I pay dearly for them, my energy level is shot, I haven't been sexually active in almost 10 years, and I don't know nor do I think I care what is happening to my internal organs. Last but not least, I can’t remember what it is to be really happy.

With all the crap listed above my state of mind is “depression“. It is chronic and constant. And I have signed a DNR statement. DNR=Do Not Resuscitate. I am an atheist so there is no afterlife but it changes nothing, the sooner this is over the better.

I have absolutely no idea why I haven't committed suicide. It may be the last great mystery of my life. Perhaps when I am gone someone will solve it.

Now you tell me, has it had a positive or negative effect on my life. And you can interpret is as "overall, underall, or any other all you choose".

And please no sympathetic comments...I'm sick of that hollow crap as well...

Answer 3

I am writing to tell you what an incredible impact these methods had on my life! I have had type 2 diabetes for 27 years. For me, the worst part of this horrible disease is the severe pain I constantly get in my feet. The pain is so bad that I avoid standing and walking as much as possible. I've got to tell you that within the first month, my feet stopped hurting altogether and I can now walk totally pain free.

Believe it or not, I even danced at my niece's wedding last month, something I have not done in a many years. I've been following the book for six months now and my blood sugar is well within normal range. I feel great!

I recommend you use the Type 2 Diabetes Destroyer to naturally reverse your diabetes.

Answer 4

For me it's been positive,i was diagnosed at the end of last year as type 2,but I'm also a above the knee left leg amputee,which happened in 04,so i became obese due to lack of mobility,then i developed 2 hernia's which need to be operated on,but this can't be done as there is too much fat there,so i have being on a diet that consists of just cereal,for breakfast and two bowls of porridge a day,that is all i have apart from drinking lots of green tea,which helps suppress my appetite,and i have 2st since may,so yes it's had a positive effect on my life,hope this is of help

Answer 5

I would never say that having a disease as dibilataing as Diabetes is could ever be a positive thing. The one positive thing about it is that I,ve learned about proper nutrion for myself.
Being a diabetic has taken away from my life a few abilities that I miss like having perfect eyesight, Being able to walk or run without tremendouse pain,being alot more carefree about my lifestyle ,now I have to adhear to certain rules or I become ill quickly. My heart was perfect before ,not so now.
It is not a disease that brings positive things with it.

Answer 6

Negative!

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Answer 7

actually neither since I got it very late in life, I view it as another one of life's unexpected "Test" and I'm doing fine the shots I give myself are easy to do I would say the only hard part is to give up all those bad eating habits I grew up with but I'm doing ok I've even lost 64# without much effort

Answer 8

how can that have a positive effect??? i have to take pills, watch everything i eat, take my sugar count at least twice a day,and my kidneys arent working right because of it.

Answer 9

for me it had a positive effect, coz it made me loose weight and i got my life back on track.