How does diabetes affect expected life span of males and females? (blood, eat)

[howard555]

I see that diabetes can cause kidney problems, elevated levels of heart disease and strokes. And other health issues.
Is it more of a manageable disease, or does it actually lower life expectancy?

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Depends on if YOU manage IT and keep your glucose readings low. Otherwise, strokes, heart attacks and amputations are your future.

[howard555]

A friend kept their glucose low and they died of a heart attack.
No other heart issues in her familie's medical history.

[Roaddog]

My Mom is 80 and going strong. She takes good care and manages her diabetes

[Grandpa Pipes]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

Depends on if YOU manage IT and keep your glucose readings low. Otherwise, strokes, heart attacks and amputations are your future.

As any diabetic will tell you...diabetes plays for keeps unless you always keep your guard up to manage it. There is no "Time Off' with diabetes.

[Roaddog]

Originally Posted by Tightwad

As any diabetic will tell you...diabetes plays for keeps unless you always keep your guard up to manage it. There is no "Time Off' with diabetes.

No truer words spoken, it sure takes self discipline to eat right when everybody around you is enjoying the things you can't. I found out I was type 2 a little over two years ago and it's taken me this long to discipline myself to just do myself right and forget what everyone else does.

[rd2007]

If the OP is new to diabetes, they need to try to get some sort of classes about the disease. I am fortunate to be retired military, so I had plenty of educational resources available to me and boy did they work.. The disease will kill you in all sorts of ways if untreated and not managed. Anyone that ignores it is basically slowly, yet very effectively, killing themselves..

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

My mother had Type II and was almost 93.5 y/o when she died. She managed it well.

[Grandpa Pipes]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

My mother had Type II and was almost 93.5 y/o when she died. She managed it well.

Did your mom always manage to stay with the normal safe blood sugar range for her diabetes or did she finally settle on her own norm for blood sugars??

I ask 'cause when my blood sugars drop much below 140 I go into diabetic shock.

My doctor is just giving me fits 'cause he doesn't see 180>200 as any sort of norm. My a1c also rides around 7.5>8.5 every blood test.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

She tried to stay as low as she could but she tested using dipsticks/urine.

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