How does type 2 diabetes effect people?
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at
12:30 pm
James P asked:
I think i may have type 2 diabetes, i am going to get a blood test tomorrow. Just wondering how it effects peoples lives?
I think i may have type 2 diabetes, i am going to get a blood test tomorrow. Just wondering how it effects peoples lives?
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IT TAKES AWAY THE SUGAR THAT IS NEEDED FOR YOUR BODY
it decrease the sugar in your blood
In a healthy person, the pancreas secretes inusulin automatically when the body needs it to move sugar into your cells (i.e. when you eat, your digestive system breaks down food into sugar, then the insulin pushes the sugar into the cells for “fuel”). Type 2 Diabetes means that your cells are not responding well to insulin or that your pancreas is weak and can’t produce enough insulin to be effective.
Luckily (or unuckily if you’re not willing to change your lifestyle), Type 2 diabetes can usually be controlled with a change in diet and exercise. You’ll most likely have to reduce your carbohydrate intake and increase your exercise, and possibly start on some oral medication to help control your blood sugar levels.
Reducing carb intake means cutting out most sweets and reducing high carb intake like pasta, breads, baked goods, citus fruit, etc. It’s not about getting rid of these types of foods altogether, but controlling how much of them you eat and how often. Taking a class with a dietician will help you immensely in learning about carb counting and controlling your sugar levels through diet. Your doc can recommend a dietician or diabetes class after you’ve been diagnosed.
All-in-all, Type 2 Diabetes means you MUST be more aware of the types of foods you are putting into your body and exercise is an absolute must (higher blood sugar levels = higher nerve and artery damge = possible amputations, blindness, heart disease, stroke, etc). You must be vigilant about your care and treatment if you want to avoid these long-term effects.
Yes, making dramatic lifestyle changes to help control Type 2 Diabetes will probably be diffcult. On the upside, a lot of medications (if you must take them) are available at very low costs (Wal-Mart’s $4 prescriptions includes some of these medications like Metformin). Plus, you won’t have the hassle like Type 1 Diabetics (like myself) who must test their blood sugar 4 or more times a day and take 4 or more injections of insulin every day with expensive insulin.
Check out the non-profit American Diabetes Association at for more info. WebMD.com is also a great sourse for learning about the ins and outs of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes thickens the blood, making a diabetic more at risk for heart disease and heart attacks. It causes the capillaries that supply blood to the body to narrow, resulting in numbness in the feet, erectile dysfunction (ED), blindness and kidney damage. When the numbness to the feet happens, it makes the diabetic less able to detect when his feet have been cut, and infection can develop, and if left untreated can result in gangrene. This is why many diabetics suffer limb amputation.
type 2 diabetes is a condition where insulin secretion is normal,but it is not effectively taken up.this may cause obesity,increase of thirst and apatite,sweat,etc
In my case, it woke me up. If I didn’t change my eating and exercising habits, that I would end up dying a slow and miserable death like my mom did. Since then, learning all I could about healthy eating, along with daily exercise, has helped me to regain my health and stop taking medication.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus due to insulin resistance or reduced insulin sensitivity, combined with relatively reduced insulin secretion which in some cases becomes absolute. The defective responsiveness of body tissues to insulin almost certainly involves the insulin receptor in cell membranes. However, the specific defects are not known.
In the early stage of type 2 diabetes, the predominant abnormality is reduced insulin sensitivity, characterized by elevated levels of insulin in the blood. At this stage hyperglycemia can be reversed by a variety of measures and medications that improve insulin sensitivity or reduce glucose production by the liver. As the disease progresses, the impairment of insulin secretion worsens, and therapeutic replacement of insulin often becomes necessary.
The classical triad of diabetes symptoms is polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia, which are, respectively, frequent urination, increased thirst and consequent increased fluid intake, and increased appetite. In type 2 diabetes symptoms usually develop slowly and may be subtle or completely absent. Also patients with type 2 diabetes might experience irreducible fatigue. All the above symptoms can manifest itself in diabetes that is poorly controlled.
When the glucose concentration in the blood is raised beyond its renal threshold, reabsorption of glucose in the proximal renal tubuli is incomplete, and part of the glucose remains in the urine (glycosuria). This increases the osmotic pressure of the urine and inhibits reabsorption of water by the kidney, resulting in increased urine production (polyuria) and increased fluid loss.
Lost blood volume will be replaced osmotically from water held in body cells and other body compartments, causing dehydration and increased thirst.
Prolonged high blood glucose causes glucose absorption, which leads to changes in the shape of the lenses of the eyes, resulting in vision changes; sustained sensible glucose control usually returns the lens to its original shape. Blurred vision is a common complaint leading to a diabetes diagnosis; with type 2 diabetes, change is generally radual, but should still be suspected.
A rarer but equally severe possibility is hyperosmolar nonketotic (a type of diabetic coma associated with a high mortality seen in diabetes mellitus type 2) state, which is more common in type 2 diabetes and is mainly the result of dehydration due to loss of body water. Often, the patient has been drinking extreme amounts of sugar-containing drinks, leading to a vicious circle in regard to the water loss.