Heh! I'll start it!
I've been diagnosed with type 2 since 1999. I have been on Insulin since 2005. Doesn't slow me down at 63! I control very easy by monitoring regular and meds. I am on Levamir with glucophage as a supplement. (was on post study group on Levamir right after FDA approval)
Anybody else? or...next!
First let me say this, I am from Winnipeg Canada but i am currently living in South Korea teaching English, I will be home on June 5th. I have been controlling my diabetes with diet and exercising, but then the past 3 weeks I had a nasty virus, and it took a lot out of me. my sugars sky rocketed and i am now back on insulin and also taking a pill each day. I had been 7 years since I have been on meds so it is a bit of an adjustment. I hope this is just a blip and I will be off the meds soon.
On Metformin (and a new drug called Januvia) and supplementing with insulin twice a day. My sugars are generally manageable, but I was diagnosed at age 32 and it is difficult to adjust to the change in diet. My issue isn't so much sweets as it is carby stuff-particularly potatoes and rice!!
I was diagnosed when I was 17. I am 52 and have been expereincing the classic symtoms of not controlling my diabetes. Most of my life I was in denile. Knumb and tingling feet toes etc.. pain in my legs, and now my hands are starting the same thing. I was sort of ok with the it until it started effecting my guitar playing. Hard to play guitar if you can't feel your fingers and god forbid loos them. Anyway I'm telling this for not sympathy but want to spread the word. If you're young and don't think it'll matter, regading control.... you're wrong. Take care of yourself, while you still can.
i know the loosing of feelings in my feet as two yrs ago i was travelling around the world i did,nt feel a very small stone get under my foot and lodge in the crease of my middle toe ,yes it got infected and i lost 3 toes last year and again in feb this year they could,nt save my big toe ,so now ive lost 4 and all i have is my little toe . learning how to walk again is hard and also driveing a car let alone a semi. i am doing this allready . and yes i did get tingles in my fingers and now keeping my levels around 7 to 9 helps stopping those cold tingles ..keeping a balance it very hard . and we are human and fall of the rails every now and then .. and yes we all will have some sought of sexual problems such as ED . also . and look at it another way we do,nt have problems ariseing along a beach as much and keep a smile .well it natural looking ..lol.
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