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I just got a test of diabetes and im positive what should i do?
The doctor called me with results yesterday. They won't be able to talk to me about it until next Friday. She said I have diabetes. My mom said I can get rid of it if I eat right and exercise. Is this true or will I have it forever?
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Type 2 diabetes is easy to get rid of. All you have to do is change your diet. Watch "forks over knives" and read "the end of diabetes" by Dr. Neal Fuhrman. It's better to get rid of type 2 diabetes with effort than live with it and it's complications for life, having to prick yourself daily, having to pay lots of money for medication, and so on. By changing my diet, I reversed my prediabetes. My doctor once threatened me with meds and now I weigh 40 lbs less and less than I did in middle and high school.
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I'm pretty sure myself that nobody diagnosed as diabetic has ever 'got rid of it'. It can be controlled. Sometimes just by diet alone. Sometimes by diet and oral medication (tablets). Sometimes by injections of insulin. All are helped by excercise, not excessive gym regimes necessarily, but being ative. It deepends whether you are producing some insulin, but either not enough or you body cannot use it properly. Or if your pancreas is producing no insulin whatsoever (in which case it will need daily injections and you are technically 'insulin dependent diabetic). This is the gist of the Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. There is a condition known as 'pre-diabetic' where a doctor identifies a tendency and this may possibly be 'cured' in that you don't go on to become diabetic. Other than this I'm afraid you have to consider a diagnosis as being 'diabetic' as a life-time condition and it will always need you to actively control it. Can't in all honesty promise you any better news than that I'm afraid.
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Yes You can get rid of it. I know several people who did. What's hard is staying on a strict diet of avoiding sugar. Not everything is easy to figure out like pastries and candy. There are other foods that can turn into sugar too.
I will say now what I learned from being a caregiver of someone who among other things, had diabetes. When she found out, she started drinking and eating anything that said 'sugar free' on it. The problem is that sugar free isn't really free of sugar. It has artificial sweeteners.
These sweeteners, other than cane sugar will still affect a diabetics blood sugar. The only thing they are supposed to help is with a person trying to lose weight. It doesn't help as an alternative for diabetics....no matter what doctors and dieticians or nutritionists will tell you. They are only sharing what they were taught in medical school. How can they be wrong? The medical community other than natural health practitioners, are not taught about preventative medicine, prevention with something other than pharmaceutical drugs. If you don't believe me, its easy to test. Drink all the diet soda or diet cookies you want and check your blood sugar. That will tell the truth. If you are prescribed any medicine or told you need to start using insulin, do so for now and keep taking your blood sugar and eating right. Eventually in checkups, your Dr. will know if you no longer need insulin.
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