I should have been scared more then I was.

[Guest guest]

you know, now that I look back on find ing out I was a T 2 back in 2002, I

should have had the hell scared out of me from all that could and would happen

if I didn't control my blood sugar! no one said to me how the disease could

slowly kill you. all I was told was we can treat it and here is all you got to

do. first we will treat it with only diet. so they handed me a sheet of paper

with what to eat and not eat from the A D A. then they send me to talk to a lady

who had a pump on her hip and said she knew everything I needed to know. also I

had to attend some meetings where every one sit around and listened to a lady

talk about how to cook for a diabetic and once again lots of very high cargb

food was being talked about.

No one took me to see folks in a nursing home or a hospital that hadn't took

care of there diabetes and all that had happen to them with there health. I

didn't hear any bad stories of bad things happening to those who ignored the

disease. no one told me to eat mostly green veggies and stay away from flour and

sugar. they said when diet alone couldn't take care of my diabetes by it self,

then I would need to take some medicine that would help to do the trick. they

did say exercise, but I had always heard that because of my big belly. I did

hear how T one's were a lot worse off then a T 2 as I was now. they actually

acted like a T 2 really wasn't in any major danger like the T 1 had to face

daily. mainly I was told to listen to the A D A and I would be ok. no one ever

told me what high sugars would do to my health. I never seen a film or went to

see the results of this very thing. I was actually led to believe ten years ago

that only the bad health issues would only happen to the childhood diabetics.

they said a T 2 could leave the disease behind by just simply losing weight and

only losing 30 pounds would do the trick.

Now after some bad things have happened to my health do to poor diabetes

control, I have been learning a lot on my own. like after many years of poor

sugar control your stomach can stop being able to empty the food you put in it

and you can't hardly eat because you feel full all the time. so then they got to

give you some kind of meds that will make the stomach empty. of course then I

read where people with bad sugar control lose a foot or a leg up to the knee and

then a leg all the way up to the waste! no to mention the folks who have to go

have there blood took out and cleaned and put back in 3 days a week. then I read

about all the damage that happens to your veins and arteries going all through

the body and even the heart it self. not to mention the brain that is affected

from strokes and the such. Why didn't I hear all this ten years ago?

I don't even think the doctor's really know a lot about telling us who are

now becoming a T 2. all they seem to know is give you a sheet of paper or a web

site and maybe a drug to start out with. maybe send you to a clinic for some

information that you will get in a book at the Library that is out dated and

doesn't tell you the real story. I bet a lot of doctors get some kind of kick

back from the drug companies to push a certain drug for diabetes or what ever

the health issue is. maybe now that I think on it this is why the saw bones has

all kinds of free samples in there office that they can pass out to some of

there patients who can't afford the high cost or simply to get them to try them.

sounds like a big racket to me kind of like judges and lawyers. also seems like

they are all playing games with our health at state!

I can't prove it for sure, but I'm all most 100% certain that poor blood

sugar control is what caused my heart attack in 07 and all that has happened

since then as well. I do however continue to only blame me and just me. I should

have took it more serious back then even though the doc wasn't. I knew from my

past how bad T one's got when they had the disease for many years. most died

young then, but we didn't know then what we do know now about the disease. back

then it was a crap shoot at best. I blame my self for not educating my self, but

we mostly trust the doctors or we wouldn't go see them for answers. seems to me

even the diabetes specialist really don't know much more if any more then does

the regular doc when it comes to treating diabetes. this specialist I just seen

was blown out of his mind with my numbers being as low as they have been for the

past 12 days. well what was he expecting them to be? his nurse said most big

boys my size would need 50 units of insulin twice a day just to start off and

maybe more if there numbers wasn't coming down in the first ten days. So makes

you wonder what kind of diet is the doc's office telling these people to eat? if

they are continuing to eat what they have and it is destroying there health to

eat this way, then why doesn't the doc tell them to stop right now and change

the way they eat? I didn't hear none of that kind of talk. the nurse ask me what

I had for breakfast and when I said I had a cup of oats raw with almond milk she

said that the oats is why my sugar was 140 with the finger stick she done. she

said oats were high in carbs and that is all I ever heard about food and how to

eat right.

I thought my A1C of 12.1 was out of site! the nurse said they had some

patients that had a A1C of over 20! I thought my triglycerides of 1400 was out

of site! the nurse said they had some patients that were over 2200! they

actually expected my numbers to go higher then they were when I came in 12 days

ago. no life style changes are expected by any of the patients and they don't

expect none either. they just give every one more insulin and more pills and the

patient gets worse and dies.

Even though I don't agree with the health care coverage they are pushing, I

can understand why more countries now have socialized healthcare. the number of

diabetic patients alone would bankrupt any nation the way it is going. If no one

plans to change there life style and the doctor's don't change there treatment

of the disease and how they present it to there patients, then this country is

going to be in a world of hurt in a short time, like maybe in just ten more

years!

sugar is killing every one with the high sugar levels. most of my friends

think that sugar is only what comes out of a package that is granulated. they

never think about all the different foods they eat every day and how much sugar

of one kind or another that is in that food. you can tell them and try to

educate them and most of them will say to you, if this is true what you are

saying, then why does our country allow it to go on? why doesn't my doctor tell

me of it? why do they sell it if it is so unhealthy? then they will say, our

government will take care of us and no way will they allow us all to die from

such a thing as diabetes. I'm telling you seems like every one I know is running

around with this kind of a attitude now days. they think there diet they eat

each day is fine and the government wouldn't allow for it to be sold in this

country if it was bad!

Last time I looked diabetes is number four in diseases that kill in this

country. this is one out of every 4 and they say it soon will be one in 3! this

blows my mind! they say it isn't just America either, they say this growing

disease is happening in other countries as well. in some they say it is all

ready one in 2 have T 2 diabetes. the biggest questions every one is now asking,

is who is going to be left to work and pay the taxes that will be required to

cover the medical bills from this disease? I think are answer to this q is the

new healthcare program that the President is now pushing so hard to become law.

so the bottom line falls on each of us to take better care of our self by our

self right now while we can get some help. If you don't look out for your own

health and your own life style for the better, then doesn't seem like no one is

going to try and fix you up when your health starts to go South. I think in

maybe 20 years us who are in bad shape from poor blood sugar control are going

to be kicked to the side and forgotten. it sounds mean and heartless, but it is

actually what will take place in this new healthcare bill. just stop and think

how scary it will be if any of this happens as they plan!

The education I should have got ten years ago may or may not of done any

good. I will never know now. I would hope that if I could have actually seen

first hand the results of poor control I would have had my eyes opened enough to

take better care of my own health. So when is the medical people planning to

open more eyes to the truth and do a better job at educating the population on

the cold hard facts of the disease if not controlled with life style changes?

looks to me like the drug companies and the other folks who are piling up money

taking care of us are going to fight back and do what ever it takes to keep it

going like it is. just think of how bad eating right would destroy the

restaurant industry! I bet they are fighting hard as we speak to stop any

movement heading told educating the public in a honest way about diabetes. the

industry that makes our supplies?

so money drives the country for sure and we are the suckers that are putting

more money in there pockets. taking it from our pocket and putting it in there

pocket that is all ready running over! really is sad to me how the general

public is sucked in to believing the government will take care of them no matter

how bad there health gets. most people I guess simply don't wish to give up

things in there life that they love to do and to eat, so just ignore the truth

and believe what ever fits your attitude. take your responsibly out of it and

depend totally on the government to take care of everything. it took me ten

years to finally wake up to the truth and what damage I have done to my health

is for me to live with and except. yet many people with the disease still after

ten years continue on the same path of destruction. I'm actually feeling like

one of the more blessed one's, because lots of diabetics have more trouble then

I have in a shorter amount of time. some even cash in and die before ten years.

some never recover even after the damage of ten years of out of control sugar. I

feel very blessed better then I deserve for figuring it out before it got worse

for me. but I do still feel sorry for all those that won't listen to us who know

the truth and try to tell them. even the one's who aren't diabetic yet or they

just haven't heart it yet, even though they probably have been for a few years.

seven to twelve years in most cases before they find it on a blood test.

Well here I went to write a simple post and away with a ramble I went. I

can't spell worth a flip and still with the spell checker I still spell words

even Jaws can't figure out. maybe my ramble comes from nine years of typing

class? I loved to type, just couldn't spell. my typing teacher said I could type

over 90 word a minute with out a mistake because I learned how to spell the

words before the test. I guess that was actually cheating, but it worked well

for me. well best advice I can give you guys is the same advice I tell the other

list I'm on. if you don't dig a ramble like this, then please by all means hit

the delete key and it really won't hurt my feelings even if you told me that is

what you done.