I’m not going to give you too many facts on diabetes, other than it is life threatening and can harm your body, not to mention your mental state.

I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in August of 2009. I knew something was wrong but was so afraid to go to the doctor. I became dizzy a lot of the time. I was weak and had no energy. I had a thirst I could not quench. It seemed the more water I drank the more I wanted. I couldn’t get enough to eat; therefore I gained a lot of weight. Which I did not need because I was already overweight.

I would go to the grocery store and could not stand the noise. I was so irate to people. I yelled at a mother with a screaming child. I am not like that. I stopped right then and there and said to myself something is terribly wrong. When you know your body, it speaks to you. I just ignored the signs, thinking it was old age creeping up on me. I just couldn’t get anything going in my life.

I didn’t think I was depressed, I’ve been down that road. My husband finally talked me into going to the doctor. As we never had health insurance, we finally had it. So I went. Please don’t let that stop you. I did and it cost me.What a shock I received when the doctor told me I had diabetes. Nothing had ever been wrong with me. I was usually in good health most of my life. I sat there in his office for about 10 minutes and cried. I was scared, very scared.

I have never been so scared in my life. I have friends that have Type II diabetes, and I felt sorry for them. Not really knowing much about the disease, I didn’t know what to do. My emotions ran from being scared to being in shock. My whole body went into distress mode. Why? What happened to my body?

Being adopted I did not know my health history. I did find out and my natural father had diabetes and died from it. Boy did that wake me up. I then told my doctor let’s do what needs to be done. He was wonderful. He got me on the right pills and I am now getting better. My blood sugar is down, as well as my blood pressure and have lost 83 pounds. Thank you Lord and my doctor.

Start exercising, now! Eat your veggies and fruits. Learn to enjoy eating all over again, this time the right way. Take your medicines. You can do it. I did and am glad I did.

So if you have any of the symptoms, run don’t walk to your doctor. Have them run the tests you need and get on medication. Please don’t wait, it could kill you, it almost did me. Talk to him and get educated. Look it up on the internet. There is a wealth of information. Education on diabetes is your best form of keeping alive and living a good life. Good luck to you.

A blood sugar log can be a valuable tool in helping to monitor your levels if you are diabetic. Ask your doctor how often you should check your blood sugar levels. Everyone’s health conditions are different, and your physician will make a recommendation based on your own personal health situation.

You will want to save the readings to keep track of the results in a log. You’ll want to be able to refer back to them to see how much you improve and or change over time.

Logs can be used for either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, whether you are on oral medication, for example tablets or pills, or if you use insulin injections, or an insulin pump. The log book can help you to scout out “trouble spots” so you can see when is a good time to eat certain foods as well as how different activities and exercise can affect your readings.

Keeping a log is an excellent way to track the effectiveness of your insulin usage and helps to maintain normal blood sugar levels.

In this electronic age where everything seems to be computerized, sometimes it’s nice to fall back on the old fashioned, hand written log book. You can carry it with you to your doctor visits and go over your records with your doctor.

Your log results are very important. Your doctor will use your records to monitor how often your levels are in your target range. This is how your doctor will know if your medicine needs to be adjusted. You should take your log with you to each visit with your doctor.

Keeping track of your sugar levels benefits you in a number of ways.

A. it helps you to treat low or high blood sugar before it becomes critical.

B. it lets you know how exercise and food affect your sugar levels and how much insulin to take if you take insulin.

Make checking your blood sugar level a regular habit and part of your daily routine. And when you check your blood levels use the sides of your finger, not the tips. The tips of your fingers are much more sensitive than the sides.

Recently the medical establishment announced that the new normal blood sugar levels as been lowered. 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.5 to 6.9 mmol/L) is mildly abnormal and is called a borderline diabetic blood sugar level. This is very important information for a diabetic. The importance of this could be the difference between life and death. To understand this we must first expose the type 2 diabetes crisis that has hit the world. What was once considered a problem for the United States has now grown into a global crisis.

What prompted the lowering was that original borderline diabetes level was too high and many thought they were safe but in fact were not. A large number of people in the United States became diabetic with 18 months of being told they were on the borderline. This prompted the medical establishment to lower the number of what was considered safe. People were in danger and never realized it. Diabetes is a silent killer, it is slowly killing the cells of the pancreas. The sugar in the bloodstream is literally choking the life out the the diabetic. The bloodstream is coming polluted and it is affecting the circulation. Men may lose the ability to maintain an erection. Studies show the body of one with elevated sugar is aging faster than one with a normal sugar range.

The lowering of the safety level is important to the diabetic, this is alerting more people that this dangerous and deadly disease is starting to kill their pancreas. Many health officials think that the lower level is still not enough. Some health researchers want the borderline level to be lowered at least another down 10%; the belief is that millions more are still in danger.. To those with borderline diabetes it is urgent to get normal blood sugar levels, it may save your life.