Finally Taking it seriously

I was diagnosed many years ago. I took the pills i was prescribed but didn't really take it seriously. I had no symptoms so I must be fine. Years later(just recently) I got a new Dr. He was not happy with my labs and put me on insulin. I guess that was the eye opener I needed. I have to check my bs 4 times a day till we get the right dose. I'm working on my diet. My daughter is supportive and my husband is trying. I searched for a place for more support and I think I found it here. My motto for now is "Today is a great place to start"

i read your post and you inspired me. i was diagnosed in 1998 and this year started taking lots of meds...byetta, insulin, metformin and gliburide and I am the heaviest ever. 

I am starting again and this time, taking it seriously.  so you are you doing? what has worked for you?  i start walking again tomorrow.

I too got a "wake up" call. The dr thought that I may have had a heart attack, and I am pre-diebetic. I am starting to make the right choices for me!! We can do it!! We have to take care of ourselves before we are any good for ou kids or spouse!! Best Wishes BEC

Today is a great place to start...but how do you keep it going. that is my problem. i get up every morning thinking to myself 'this is the day I start my diet, exercise, only drink two cans of pop...but by the end of the day there I am lying on the couch, a full stomach from all the carbs I just ate, and five empty cans of pop in front of me. My husband tries to help but when he goes to work I actually sneek and order food, like pizza and take out. then hide the boxes before he gets home. i nned help I know I do.

...Try educating yourself about how your body uses carbs and other nutrients.  Find the right team of people to help you change your behaviors.  Find a doctor that will teach you about how your body uses nutrients.  Find a nutritionist and find a counselor.  Stay here and have others help you.  I think you know that sneeking from your husband is doing nothing for you or him.  This is an addiction problem just like hiding the bottle or the drug needle.  Not enough?  Try this....Imagine yourself traveling to a kidney dialysis clinic every other day for a 4-8 hour visit to have your blood cleansed because of renal failure.  A renal diet is VERY restrictive, you'll have to learn about all nutrients and balance them delicately.  Or maybe you will be lucky and find a kidney donor!  Now Imagine having complications because you forget to take one or two of the handful of pills you have to take 3 or 4 times a day.  Complications like Calciphylaxis which is not curable.  This is a condition resulting from an imbalance of phosphorus (in most foods we eat).  It tricks your body into seeing blood vessel walls as BONE and begins to deposit all the calcium it can get into your vessels hardening them and causing them and your skin to burst leaving huge ulcers all over your body........intense out of your head pain and itching!  At this point imagine that you decide to get ahead of this game and start having these parts surgically removed leaving craters in your torso and amputated body parts.  Imagine dying this type of death.  Diabetes will cause kidney failure if not managed, along with blindness and other horrible things.  I am telling you about a true event.  I lost my mother to this retched disease a year ago.  She was a sneeker too.  Just like you.