About Diabetes

[iHaunt]

Do you have it? Do you eat so much sweet thing??

If so, then tell me why and how? Also, is there any way to prevent diabetes??

[iHaunt]

No comments at all here???

I heard some people were getting heart attack, stroke, nerve system breakdown, kidney failure, etc. Some people really don't care about their health problem...

I got a good friendly P.E. teacher, football and basketball coach of mine for many years and he died in 2006 66 while he was driving his own 1986 Buick Regal from here in Hampton, VA to Newmark, NJ. He died from heart attack while driving and crushing into other cars in NJ.

Anyway, how do we cure diabetes? Maybe some right foods to eat would be helpful? Medicines?

[adrian]

sorry man.... i don't know too much about it

[iHaunt]

Ok, so anyone else know more about diabetes? And, what does it has to do with the body? Any advice would be very much appreciated!

[Murfreesboro]

There must be tons of web sites out there that could tell you more about diabetes than I know. Some of the older members of my family have had it--the kind that comes on in adulthood. There is another, more virulent kind, that affects children and young adults.

I know that, if left untreated, diabetes can lead to blindness as well as kidney disease, heart attack and stroke. Diabetics are also very prone to infections. They don't fight them off very well. Some people have to have extremities amputated because of this problem.

It's not just sweets, but carbs in general, that diabetics must watch. Yet they do need a certain amount of sugar. They just have to make sure that their sugar intake balances with their insulin.

I believe that some diabetics are hopeful genetic research can help them in the future. Gene splicing (restoring some malfunctioning gene) could help them return to a more normal metabolism. That hasn't happened yet, though.

[witchy]

That was very well said Murfreesboro, I don't no any thing about this disease, sorry!!

[Pumpkin_Man]

About 200 punds ago, I was on 3 different medications for diabetes IN ADDITION to insulin shots. I don't have a medical degree, so I can't give you difinitive medical information. What I can tell you is that it was KILLING ME, and would have don just that if I hadn't had my G I bypass.

My late brother, Jack died of an anurism cause by diabetes. Before that happened, he has to have his left leg amputated right below the knee. He had constant problems that required hospitilization, and there was a time when we thought his kidneys totaly failed. Hie eye sight was also starting to go bad, and even a tiny little nick would bleed for 6 or7 hours because he was a very slow healer.

At the time of his untimly death, his other leg was starting to go the same way as his amputated one.

I loved my brother very much, but death for him was a mercy, not a tragidy.

That's what diabetes is all about from a lay man's point of view.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

That's tragic about your brother, Mike--but what a blessing for you, that the GI surgery seems to have cured you! I have heard of that happening in the case of some diabetics.

[witchy]

Mike I'm sorry to hear about your brother, it's hard to believe all that happened to him, all because of he was Diabetic, some people in my family have had it but not quite as bad as that. I'm glad your doing better tho...

[Murfreesboro]

One of my uncles had to have his leg amputated for diabetes shortly before his death. He was in his 70s, though--76, 77, something like that. His daughter told me he had refused to stick to the rigorous discipline of the diabetic diet.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Thanks for the kind words, Murfrees and Witchy. That was pretty much my prime motovation for having the bypass and losing the weight. And my brother and I are not the only members of my family who has to deal with diabetes. My sister in-law is on insulin. My father developed it when he was 80, my older brother is on 3 meds, but not on insulin. Yet. Of course, the way I heard it, is if you live long enough you will sooner or later develop diabetes.

But I am glad, that for me, at least, I am out of that rut.

Mike

[iHaunt]

Some people told me to cut out of beers, wines, whiskeys, fatty foods, junk foods, soda pops, etc. Is that true? I really dunno know. Also, cut down smoking cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products.

[Murfreesboro]

Diabetics should not drink alcohol. It metabolizes as sugar. But, iHaunt, if you are threatened with diabetes, you should be talking to your doctor and/or trained nutritionist for advice, not random people on the 'net.