If Someone Diagnosed With Diabetes but Refuses Treatment, What Are the Main Risks? Can It Be Fatal?
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at
3:51 pm
jay dee asked:
my grandmother has been diagnosed recently but she doesnt like doctors, hospitals or tablets/injections. she says is she hadnt been to the doctor, she would never had known she was ill. she won’t go back to the doctor to discuss treatment for her diabetes. is she putting herself at risk?
my grandmother has been diagnosed recently but she doesnt like doctors, hospitals or tablets/injections. she says is she hadnt been to the doctor, she would never had known she was ill. she won’t go back to the doctor to discuss treatment for her diabetes. is she putting herself at risk?
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Definitely. My grandmother did the same things and died of complications of diabetes at the age of 61.
My mums a diabetic. Shes type 2. This means she has tablets not insulin. Then main risk is falling into a coma.
Yes. Diabetes kills. One overly sweet snack can put her in a diabetic coma and if she lives alone she can die. A small injury to a toe or her foot could turn into gangrene and she could die or lose the limb. Diabetes is where your pancreas stops producing insulin which helps your body deals with and process sugars.
Yes this is definitely something you do not want to take chances on. It causes so many problems and yes, it can be fatal. Somehow you need to try and talk to your grandmother and get her treatment. I wish you all the best.
Yes, depending on the type. One is a lot more serious than the other. If it isn’t monitored and controlled, she could die from it depending, of course, of the severity of the problem. She could be getting real thin headaches and sleepy or the opposite, gaining weight, tired and sleepy.
Also changes in body temperatures and changes in appetite.
I hope that helps
yes. first multi organ failure, stroke then death!
Unless you get hit by a bus, diabetes is 100% fatal.
Diabetes causes all sorts of nasty, painful problems, and most of them end up being fatal. If you do not take care of the diabetes, it WILL kill you, unless you first die in an accident.
The main risks of diabetes are heart attack, strokes, and kidney failure. ALL three of these can be fatal. Unfortunately, in most cases they do not kill you quickly, but leave you as an invalid for many years.
Di abets has also been linked to a higher chance of Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is always fatal, but it takes a LONG time to kill you, and the effects on you and your family are terrible.
Diabetics are also at increased risk of an infection. These infection often lead to gangrene (the death and rotting of a body part while it is still attached to the body). Gangrene can be fatal, but it is usually solved by amputation of fingers, toes, feet, and legs.
Uncontrolled diabetics often suffer from KETOACIDOSIS, which is a buildup of toxins in the system. if not treated as an emergency, ketoacidosis is fatal.
After all of this, the expected blindness, numbness, digestive, and sexual problems see paltry by comparison.
Your grandmother, in her failure to get the treatment she needs, is committing slow and painful *******. Not to mention the enormous monetary costs that are going to mount in taking care of her.
Without treatment, she runs the risk of death. But also there are complications that won’t kill her but will make her quality of life miserable, like blindness or kidney failure. If she doesn’t like doctors she will **** having to go to dialysis every other day or being confined to a wheelchair because she’s lost a foot.
A lot of people lose sight of the debilitating complications because they figure when it’s time to go, it’s time to go. But it’s also highly likely they will have a serious complication that won’t kill them but that will change their life for the worse. They can come on very quickly with untreated high blood sugars.
yes, it can be fatal after a long painful illness. but there is nothing you can do to change her mind. She must want to help herself before any medications or diet and exercise program can help her.
I want to see my youngest grandchild grow up and get married! I have definite reasons for going to see the doctors and taking the medications. Maybe your grandmother doesn’t think she has a reason!
You’d better hog-tie her and get her to the doctor for treatment NOW. Diabetes can cause neuropathy (extreme pain or numbness in the legs and difficulty walking), blindness, gangrene (requiring amputation of the limbs), and several other conditions, like heart attack and stroke. My grandfather died of a heart attack directly linked to his untreated diabetes, and my father has neuropathy. The longer she goes without treatment, the more risk she’s taking. She may find out her restrictions are not too bad, like diet restrictions or glucophase pills, but she has to find out and follow the doctor’s orders.
diabetes can immediately life threatening
I just read an article a couple of days ago that explains it pretty well…