My wife is a diabetic. I don't think she is taking care of herself and I keep on telling her that?

Question

She slurs her speech frequently when I call home from work daily. In addition to slurring her speech, she passes out on a regular basis. Can you please explain to her what her long term consequences will be if she doesn't take this seriously. What is her life expectancy going to be the way she keeps going? She is 40 years old. Thanks

Answer 1

Diabetes can be controlled with diet only if it is mild enough. Sometimes insulin is necessary, but that doesn't always mean forever.

Diabetics have many peripheral problems. Very common is decreased circulation in the legs, often resulting in sores that will not heal, gangrene, and often amputation of the leg or legs affected. Diabetes can cost her eyesight. Diabetes can also damage the internal organs. Kidney problems are very common. Once you have kidney problems, if left untreated, high blood pressure WILL develop, further damaging the kidneys. At some point the kidneys will completely shut down, and she will need kidney dialysis. Then if her diabetes remains uncontrolled, she will not be eligible for a kidney transplant, which means she will be stuck on dialysis for a very, very long time. And dialysis doesn't take a vacation. There are also problems with being on dialysis. Your diet is very limited, and your liquids are even more limited. Dialysis patients who drink too much fluid between sessions (hemodialysis is done 3 times a week, usually 4 hours per session) run the risk of dying from stress on the heart. I knew a 25 year old young man who did.

If she hasn't seen an endocrinologist (diabetes doctor) lately, she needs to. She also should get a reference to see a nephrologist (kidney doctor). She needs to find out how her kidneys are functioning.

Also, I would discourage for now any "herbal remedies", and I'll tell you why. They are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, so you have no idea what you are getting from bottle to bottle, brand to brand. I took an herbal supplement years ago which interacted with one of my transplant drugs, and I lost my first kidney transplant. Because herbals are not regulated, they don't have to put this information on their products. So think about that before you go that direction.

These are just a few of the things that I know about the consequences of uncontrolled diabetes. You should take a tour of a large dialysis facility, and if you can get her to go, you should. You will see several people there with missing limbs, problems with vision, etc. It would certainly be a shame to see these things happen when she has the opportunity now to change her future.

Best of luck to you both.

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Answer 4

Slurred speech and passing out can be diabetic problems, but other things can cause this too. She needs to see a doctor to get this checked and to see how her blood sugar is doing. The A1C blood test can determine how well the blood sugar levels have been for the past 3 months.

If it is diabetic, read on:

After watching a fellow die from diabetic complications, I can say it is ugly.

First, it is generally a slow disease and takes a long time for the damage to be done, but the slurring of speech and passing out can be a fast ticket to dead if not taken care of.

As for the slow part. Damage is done by excess sugar and neuropathy is one big problem. neuropathy is the destruction of nerves, causing pain and numbness. The pain can be incredible and the affected parts so sensitive that clothing can not be allowed to touch an area.

The legs and arms are the first to be really damaged and the legs are generally amputated first. The kidneys are destroyed, resulting in needing dialysis treatments 3 days a week and people who made no attempt to take care of their diabetes are not considered good transplant risks. Your eyes grow dim and then you are blind.

As the time passes, you grow steadily weaker and walking is no longer an option. Your stomach is damaged and you can not keep food down much. You become violently ill on a daily basis.

Near the end, the pain is incredible and not much can be done. You spend all your time in a hospital bed and have to be cared for 24 hours a day. You keep getting weaker until you no longer can tolerate dialysis and then you beg to die.

Much of this can be avoided if a person commits to taking care of themselves.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

unfortunately there is no telling, for apparent reasons she won't live to be 100 but she could make it to her late 50's or 60's. If she has slurred speech and is passing out on you that means she letting her blood glucose go too low so when you see or hear her like that tell her to drink some O.J. and eat a piece of fruit. Her main problem is going to be internal organs being that it is common for diabetics to damage their kidneys or liver the other more common side effects are loss of feeling in the feet and vision problems. It is always good to remember that diabetes is NOT curable but it is treatable, diabetes in its self will not kill someone its all the complications that go with diabetes that should be your main concern. Go to her doctor appointments and ask what her A1C has been.

Answer 7

My father was diabetic and had some complications with his heart due to this not being diagnosed for almost 6 years. The one thing that helped my dad was going to group meetings with newly diagnosed diabetics at our local hospitals. This will give everyone a chance to know what others are going through and it might help your wife understand better of what her body is going through. I also recommend you attend them with her this way you can help her when her sugar levels spike and bottom out. The long term consequences will be kidney shut down, Heart Failure and eventually death. I lost my father last week and if we did not have these classes I would have lost him a lot sooner. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Is she monitoring her blood sugar? If this is happening regularly at a particular time then her sugar is either too low or too high. I have those same symptoms when my blood sugar is too high. I have been told that every time your blood sugar is over 250 some part of you is permanently damaged. It may be as small as a cell but after enough years of high blood sugar it adds up. If she doesn't take her diabetes seriously she may expect heart failure, women who are diabetic have 4 times the risk of a healthy woman, stroke, amputation of feet and legs, diabetes is the leading cause of amputation, a very poor quality of life because of constantly low energy, as if every cell in your body has been drained, dry skin-really dry skin, hair loss, diabetic neuropathy, blindness or lesser vision problems. Your life expectancy if you do not take care of yourself is greatly shortened. Your family will need to take care of you because there may come a point where you will no longer be able to take care of yourself. I have a friend who's husband has been bed ridden for two years because of an infection from a very small cut in his foot.
It is your (her) responsiblity to take care of yourself. You may need help and encouragment but you are lucky enough to have a husband who cares about you. You have to educate yourself. I know it's hard because I am diabetic too and I don't always take care of myself the way I should either. Email me any time.
Sandra

Answer 10

You know when I first became a diabetic 10 years ago the doctor scared the sh*% out of me. He told me not only can you lose your legs, or fingers, or toes but how would you like it if the skin on your face rotted there is really nothing can be done about it because plastic surgery in order to work needs a good blood flow. It happens. She is damaging her heart, her lungs, her liver, and other internal organs, her veins are going to get smaller and she wont be able to get the blood to them. She will get nerve damage and even brain damage by reduction of blood flow. Her skin can get sever infections and will be hard to heal...again because of blood flow restriction.

Its not hard to take care of yourself after a diagnosis of diabetes. If you take good care of yourself by eating right, checking your blood sugar levels, getting excersize...that can be just taking a walk for a bit...you can live a great life. She will feel better for herself and it will make you feel better. She is obviously worrying you because you care about her. She can have cake, and ice cream, and cookies just moderately. Instead of eating a half package of cookies put two or three on a plate grab some sugar free hot cocoa and enjoy it. Make the cake slice small..remember to always check levels because sometimes a certain food can cause a raise in levels, it doesn't even have to contain sugar...Mcdonald's fries throws mine into overdrive for some reason.

She should really take care of herself because its not just death she is looking at its a painful life of rotting skin, no leg(s), fingers, infections...and don't forget those wonderful yeast infections women get and can't get rid off sometimes for months ( that is pure hell) Really, make sure she eats right...too much too high levels, not enough too low levels....40 is so young to be dying slowly.