complications if I control my sugar levels perfectly for the rest of my life? I'm not that perfect though.

I have developed an aversion to pasta and colas. I haven't had any sugar sweetned colas in over a year! I avoid pasta, white bread and white rice like the plaque. I know I feel like crap after I eat those foods. That's easy though. It's controlling portion sizes that's hard for me, especially when everything tastes so darn good! I have made changes in the way I cook and the types of food I eat, but you can still eat too much of healthy foods too.

I know this is up to me. I just hate being so damn weak and not having enough discipline sometimes. It's hard for me to be perfect when it comes to food.


Hello all!



[This message has been edited by moodyblues2003 (edited 10-14-2003).]

You have to remember that non-diabetics die at some point too. The risk of diabetes is in getting a stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, amputation, blindness, ...... earlier than a non-diabetic. Certainlly there are lots of studies which show that if you achieve tight BG control you will reduce your risk of complications very significantly. My mother in law is 81 and had diabetes since she was 50 - uses insulin. I can see no evidence of any complications. My father in law on the other hand (83) has never been diagnosed with diabetes, but has had one heart attack, and is suffering from neuropathy of the feet. His BG in the AM with a home meter is often in the pre-diabetes range (110-120). To me this shows you can reduce risk complications with effective treatment, and it also shows that complications may start at lower levels of BG than many people think.

So, whatever you do, and whatever it takes, do your best to keep BG in control.

Ron

Oh honey.. I have been where you are. Still am to a point. I learned a big lesson one day. I had heard about how diabetes would hurt me down the road and it was a matter of control. I heard "Either you control it or it control's you" until my head hurt. I have had 3 diabetic pregnancies so I was taking 12 blood sugars a day and seeing my OB twice a week. THEN going in for fetal monitoring. I thought they were all just making this huge deal out of something simple.

Then my oldest daughter wasnt feeling good. I decided to take her sugar and it was 380! Talk about going nuts. In the course of a few hours of waiting on an appt with her Ped, I had developed a menu, decided we were going to fight this, and decided that diabetes would NOT control her life.

Turned out to be a glitch in my monitor and her blood sugar was less than 100. But now why would a mother have little regard for her own care but fight like a lion when it came to her child??? It comes down to love. I love my children and will be their biggest healthcare advocate when it is all said and done. Now, I just need to love myself and do the same thing. You dont let it control you by staying on top of it. It becomes second nature and ends up taking less of your life. Yes, people die of other things so being in panic mode over the slightest high is just a nightmare. You have to take it all into perspective and do the best you can. You will have a really good day and turn around and have a bad one. Your goal is for the good ones to outweigh. You may still get complications but when the day is done, you wont add to that the guilt that you didnt do all you could. Good luck

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Mindy :o)