Who here is Diabetic???????????
 

Did ya have it all your life or did you get it later on in life?

I got type 2 about 3 1/2 years ago.. 2 pills per day :(

Sister has had it since she was 18, dad since 30 or so. Grandpa (dad's dad) got it after ww2, around age 30, died at about 70, lost leg, eye, etc..

Why do all us jews get it? :(

you just take pills for it?? None of the daily insulin and so on?

Diet controlled diabetic since I was 40.

My little brother came down with Type 1 Juvenile Diabeties when he was 3.

He's 7 now, on an insuline pump, and doing great.

It's one of the causes that I donate to every year.

They're so close to a cure, with many promising studies being done!

I am reading up on it now on http://www.diabetes.org

Yeh, my blood sugar and all that wasn't bad enough for insulin.... I kinda knew when I was young that my chances were pretty good I would get it.

I take glucophage which is a pretty popular drug for diabetics.. I can tell you one thing, once I started taking these pills I don't drink gallons of water per day :)

damm I was drinking and drinking, people used to trip on that..

I got type 2 started about 5 years ago - insulin injections plus pills. have to watch what I eat - exercises

I have it and I was diagnosed in 2003. Do you have diabetes?

Type 2. Take 2 glyburide every day. Been this way 3-4 years now. It aint no fun.

judging by the bloodwork results i got over phone looks like it , ill know on Tues.

got it from the family...

Juicy... if they say yes... have them do an A1C test. This one blood test will give them and you the average of your blood sugar from the past 3 months. Average A1C is 6.5-7.0. When I was first diagnosed mine was 12.5. I take Metformin and Actos, pretty common drugs. MY A1C has run pretty consistant at 7.5-8.0 over the past year or so. It gives the doc something to yell about.

And sign up for the American Diabetes Association newsletter. It gives you lots of medical info and research that you can't find anywhere else.


Good luck precious

same here, It's all because I'm overweight :(

I got diabetes when I was 14 and I'm 36 today so I've been living with it for quite some time.
Injections every single day.

If you got any questions feel free to hit me up.
Even my girlfriend has it (didn't know when I started dating her) and my father has it as well.

Juicy if you might be diabetic then you better quit smoking now.
Smoking destroys and constricts your blood vessels, and your eyes and legs will need all the help they can get.
It also makes you more likely to get kidney disease.

Diabetics who smoke are 3 times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than other diabetics.

smoking while diabetic is like pouring gasoline on a fire.
good luck with your tests

not yet but I have insulin resistance (which in turn caused me to have polycystic ovaries) and I take two metformin pills a day (which is a diabetic medication) in order to try to control insulin and to hopefully prevent me having full blown type 2 later in life.

However, that is going to be a real up hill fight as my sister and I are the only family members on either side not to to be an actual diabetic and even I have insulin issues.

I probably had insulin resistance since puberty but it is only in the last five years or so they started linking polycystic with insulin and it is only in the last ten or so they even started noticing polysystic at all.

That is when we made my dad go get tested because he was drinking tons of water all of a sudden. He was our last hope not to have it totally covering out gene pool but I am glad he was tested. I

Im gonna get it! I know it!

Same here, my younger brother has diabetes type 1.

Just happen overnight with no explanation, no one in my family has it either.

I also keep a very close eye on those progresses, they recently were able to cure diabetic monkeys using pig cells.

One of the reasons I try to make money is because one day I'd love to offer to pay for my brothers treatment/cure if he can't afford it or the state doesn't pay for it.

I have Hypoglycemia. I have to watch it or it can turn into Diabetes very soon.

yo, type 1 here for 8 years. i woke up on christmas day at the hospital. it wasnt diet induced though, but stress induced. no cases of it in the family.

btw there is one case of cured diabetes in England. They transplanted cells from a donor and the man is all well now.

I was told I was insulin resistant years ago when I was a child and that eventually I will have type 2 diabetes. It runs on my father's side of the family and it seems to be inevitable for me, sometime in the near future I'm sure :Oh crap

It sucks but it's controllable.

hey, you type 2 ppl, do you have to check your blood few times a day? I gotta do it 4 times a day and inject 5 times. one thing diabetes gave me was numbness/resistance to pain.

word of advice, start learning how to count carbs (not just sugar). good luck with the tests Juicy.

My brother has it. He's an idiot and doesn't properly take care of himself. Every once in a while he gets taken to the hospital by ambulance because he won't wake up. Stupid kids.

Type 2 here - Its not a good thing to hear.

But to be honest its just a wake up call to live the healthy lifestyle we should all be living anyway.

You will get a load of advice - but it boils down to one thing - live the lifestyle that we have all been told about since birth, but chose to ignore.

True it is a "wake up" call

We're lucky enough that disease does not run in the family..

oh my.. that's pretty sad to hear...it's almost just the same being a hyperglycemic person... so hard to control the diet..and worse are the complications..

really sad to hear that most of us here have or one from the family is dealing with this ..i pray for good health to everybody

we work so hard all our life to earn big bucks that in turn we spend on medications later.

it's time to adapt a healthy lifestyle guys

im not... but im afraid that someday i will be one. i love sweets so much.

Unfortunately, it runs in the family. That is why I'm doing the best that I can to prevent it.

I guess you have to watch your body's sugar level.

Was insulin resistant for about 20 years before becoming full-blown diabetic about 10-12 years ago. I take 30 mg of Actos each day and control it with diet. I'm going off Actos as I recently read how it and Avandia are causing severe eye problems and the FDA is investigating.

Like Sarah, mine is a symptom of PCOS.

I eat what I want but in minute quantities --a bite of cake, not a slice. A bite if cookie, not a whole cookie.

I avoid most products with white flour and potatoes as they're really bad for diabetics. I eat mostly wheat flour products and you get used to it is all I can say.

I have a father who is dying from diabetes-related diseases and is on insulin 4 times a day and having watched him slowly dying is why I'm SO careful about controlling my blood sugar.

Juicy, just know it can be controlled and don't let it control YOU. There are diabetic forums for information and so many products these days are made with Splenda, making it easier to eat than years ago, but avoid things with Sorbitol, Mannitol or Maltitol!

Sextoyking, it's a by-products of our ancestors, all that matzoh with flour, latkes with potatoes and Purim honey cake.

Type 1
 

Type 1 since age 2 I am now 34. Most people get type 1 in there pre-teen years.

I was one of the original founding members of the NDA National Diabetes Foundation. I have been struggling with it and have recently been diagnosed with neoropathy. If you have any questions please email me [email protected].

good news guys! have you heard about the new Hungarian invention which will be able to substitute needles? i don't know exactly how it will work but it presses the solution trough your pores and won't feel any pain. Still need to wait at least two years to have it patented :(