Diabetes: Living with it and managing it!

Are you recently diagnosed with diabetes? Are you always wondering how diabetes will affect you?

Most of the patients who recently diagnosed with diabetes tend to become panicky. They think that their life has come to an end. Diabetics always fear death and pain. Yes! They have a reason. Diabetes is such a disease that will affect you in all ways.

Diabetes: Risks

A diabetic patient not only has high blood sugar, but is also prone to many other ailments including:

• Stroke
• Foot ulcers
• Heart attack
• Blindness
• High Blood Pressure
• Poor eyesight
• Cancer
• Kidney failure
• TB

And so on. You name a disease. You are sure that you’ll get it. You never know the reason why you got it. But, after you get it, you start dying daily!

But, how to manage diabetes??

Simple tips

Here are some simple tips to live with diabetes and live with it:

Avoid sugar in all forms: Tea, Coffee, Chocolates, Sweets, Milk, Fruits, Icecreams, Cold drinks and so on.

Have timely meals: Don’t skip your breakfast or any other meal for that matter. Eat at the right time but in smaller quantity.

Exercise daily: Make sure exercise forms your daily routine. Along with your other morning routines, make exercise a mandatory. Then, you’ll never miss it. Remember exercise also acts as a medicine.

Take your medicine as per prescription: Don’t forget you carry your pills wherever you go. Take medicines in time and before every meal. Having a meal without medication implies that you are inviting more trouble.

Stay active always: Try to remain active throughout your day. Walk for fifteen minutes daily. Or, take stairs instead of lift. Play with your kids. Participate in group-discussions.

Find time to get away from your laptop or computer and indulge in an y physical activity you can. It can be any of your household chores too like washing, cleaning, laundry service and so on.

Don’t miss routine sugar check up: Get your blood sugar levels checked every month. Or, buy a Glucometer and test yourself. Make sure you visit doctor at frequent intervals. Get your eyes, teeth and blood pressure checkup every time you visit your doctor.

Key Medicine: ‘You’

Remember you are the key medicine for your diabetes. You are the only one who can control your diabetes and minimize its effects. No doctor or no amount of money is going to rescue you until you decide to help yourself.