If treated correctly, Diabetes is a manageable disease that can help lead you to a healthier lifestyle (diet wise). However, if not respected, Diabetes can be the worst kind of killer there is outside of probably adolescent/infant cancer.
If I don’t keep my glucose levels under tight control, I may have blurry vision, be thirsty, urinate frequently, or feel tired. The worst part is that my body can become accustomed to higher (and lower) average glucose level. So someone with tight control may feel awful at 200, while another with poor control won’t feel that same effect until about 350.
Diabetes is a silent killer because if you don’t keep tight control today, tomorrow or even this month it may not matter too much in the short term. It’s a year or maybe not even for 10 years that the poor control catches up with you… when it’s too late. Once you have the complications from poor glucose control over the years, it’s often too late to reverse the damage done.
As a type 1 diabetic, I have to often tell myself that what I do today DOES MATTER and may go unappreciated because I may not develop the complication that someone with poor control might. Hopefully, I will never know because if I do, it’s not good and may be too late. Diabetics would probably keep tighter control if the long-term effects were more immediate and not just years down the road. That candy or cheesecake that I don’t eat today may just add time on in the end…
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