DIABETES INTRODUCTION

I am a urethane technologist aged 34. I was diagnosed prediabetic in April 2007. The moment I got the news I was so much shocked that I was unable to get out of my room for about 2 days. My family members faced the same situation as no one was expecting me to have diabetes due to my physique. Diabetes run in my family, my grand parents both father and mother sides died due to diabetes, my father was diagnosed type 2 diabetic at the age of 38. My father has developed many complications including heart, lungs, eye diseases , foot problems. I have seen my father in such a good health and now the complications make it difficult for him and the cause was untreated diabetes. He now injects insulin three times a day. ( I was diagnosed prediabetic at the age of 34 four years earlier than my father.) Diabetes is such a miserable disease that it has ruined my fathers health.

Anyway I went to the doctor and he advised me to use medicine ZOLID for a month. A close family friend advised me to see the endocrnologist after a month for a second opinion and that good young doctor also diagnosed me prediabetic but stopped my medication and told me to restructure my entire lifestyle or otherwise be prepared for the conditions developed in my father. I restructured my entire lifestyle (which included dietary changes and exercise). All this was dificult but I achieved it. In the start I set small achievable goals and continued in the same way. Now almost one and a half year has been passed and all my blood glucose levels are within the normal limits, HbA1c level of 5.8 and targeting 5.5 in the next test. The moment I was diagnosed diabetic I planned to develop a free informative and easy to understand website for the help of other diabetics and thats the goal of Diabetes in detail  It will give you a clear picture of what diabetes is and how it can be treated. Living with diabetes can be challenging. It demands one's attention several times a day, and cannot be ignored for long. One has to acquire a new set of skills-learning to adjust medicines, diet, and physical activ­ity. For individuals who are very organized, the adjustments demanded by diabe­tes are easily incorporated into their routines. For others, the diabetes can become a straightjacket, but it does not have to be this way-there is a lot that you can do to make your diabetes manageable.  

Chances are that you are visiting Diabetes Information site because you or someone you love has just been diagnosed with diabetes or has had diabetes for a while and you are trying to understand the disease and how to take care of it. Like all medical conditions you may find the language, medicines, and treatment recommendations complicated and confusing. You may also have heard that diabetes can cause blindness, nerve damage, or kidney failure, and you may be fearful that this could happen to you. It is true that these complications can occur if the diabetes is untreated or poorly con­trolled. With good care, however, all of these complications can be prevented.

It may seem hard to believe, but there can be some positive aspects to a diagnosis of diabetes. First, unlike many other chronic illnesses, you can be in charge and you can control it. Second, the organizational skills and discipline that you develop car­ing for your diabetes can be successfully transferred to other aspects of your life. Third, once you have diabetes, you (and your doctor) will pay more attention to your health and you may in fact live longer and healthier.