Is it treatable or curable?
And what length in time does it take to treat or manage this disease?
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Diabetes type 2 questions?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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It is treatable as it is a lifestyle condition, its a condition for life once you have been diagnosed.
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It is treatable with weight loss and a low carb diet!! Carbs turn to sugar!!
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type 2 diabetes is treatable. if you make certain life changes, it's also possible to "lose" the diabetes. if you're diabetic primarily due to being overweight, then losing weight as soon as possible after diagnosis might rid you of the condition. start as healthy a lifestyle as possible anyway. even if you don't lose the condition, you will most definitely make it easier to manage & have fewer complications. type 2 is often treated with diet changes and sometimes oral meds (pills) for sugar control. some people also need insulin as back up or in case of illness when sugar is harder to control.
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It is treatable with diet and exercise and sometimes medication need to be added. Depends on how high it gets...insulin may be needed. Im on the insulin and Im type II diabetic.
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Type 2 diabetes is usually first treated with diet and exercise. Sometimes loosing weight will help get the numbers down, but many times it doesn't do a thing.
Please understand that this is NOT a cure. People who have good control with exercise and diet STILL have type 2 diabetes.
The proof is that when they start eating the old way and don't get their exercise, their blood sugar goes out of control again. The disease is still there. It doesn't go away.
Diet and exercise is a means to control it early in the disease, but it is not and cannot be called a cure.
If diet, exercise and possible weight loss don't give you good control, then they try metformin, (pills). If your blood sugar is still too high they usually add more pills, but the other oral meds aren't as safe, (some have been linked to heart problems, etc) so some people opt to take insulin instead of more and possibly dangerous pills.
Some people have too much damage to their pancreas by the time they are diagnosed and have to go on insulin right away because the diet, exercise, pills routine just doesn't work for them.
As you age and the disease progresses, you will eventually need insulin.
Treatment of type 2 diabetes lasts until the day you die. If you stop, it gets worse, and causes more damage to your kidneys, eyesight, heart, and even your brain. Those with poor blood sugar control usually end up with nerve damage which leads to infections and amputations, strokes, and sometimes heart attacks, and or dementia. They also end up on dialysis.
This is a disease that you can't afford to ignore. It MUST be controlled as well as you possibly can, at all times.
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Treatable. Never curable. Once a diabetic, always a diabetic. But, it can be controlled with diet and exercise and meds. Good control, and a person will do very well. Uncontrolled bad diet allows the sugar to eat away at vital organs like kidneys, blood vessels, hart, and lead to cardiovascular disease, liver and kidney problems.
All it takes is a balanced diet that does not allow the blood sugars to go above certain levels at certain times of the day. Medication and exercise can help with this.
With a patient's full cooperation, management can be quick and easy. Eat the foods that the doctor says to at the times the doctor says. Take your blood sugars and exercise and take meds exactly as the doctor says.
Depending on how high the doctor found the blood sugar to be when the diagnosis was made, control could be attained in just a meal or two, and getting the meds regulated and the exercising in gear. There might be some tweaking needed, to get the blood sugars and meds just right to keep the blood sugars in certain ranges.
My neighbor just told me her doctor told her she does not need to take her diabetic meds anymore. She is diet controlled. Good for her.Posted 2 years ago #
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