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Sigrid from Wuppertal, Germany, lives with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and follows a low-carb diet. This is her story: When I was hospitalized five years ago with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), I also was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. My HbA1c was very high with a level of 11.3%. A week later, I saw my physician, who prescribed metformin. I discussed lifestyle change with him, but he discouraged this by saying that with levels as high as mine, this wasn't an option. He added that at our next meeting three months down the road I would certainly have to go onto insulin. I

“I ADVOCATE TO GIVE OTHERS HOPE!” By Jahna Houston I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes eighteen years ago in my 50s. It was surreal. For several years, I watched mom deal with her late-age diabetes diagnosis and I knew how I wanted to handle mine differently while supporting her. Unbelievably, her passing in fall 2019 at age 93 was NOT due to complications of diabetes directly. She was insulin dependent and worked hard to bring her A1C down from 8.1 to 5.8 over a seven-year period. I had always thought that diabetes was a sentence to forbidden foods, possible amputations, blindness, even

Don Fillenworth from Bismarck, North Dakota, is 55 years old and lives with type 2 diabetes. This is his success story: In mid-October 2012, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and had an A1C of 9.6. This was quite a shock for me, as there is no history of diabetes in my family. Before I was diagnosed, my feet were constantly numb and tingling, and I was losing feeling in the front portion of the bottom of both my feet. I had no clue that this was an indicator of diabetes , as I was not familiar with the disease at the time. My doctor prescribed metformin, which I take twice a day, and

After announcing the expansion of Diabetes Stops Here and asking you which topics you’d like covered, we received a specific request for more information about prediabetes. A staggering 79 million Americans deal with this condition, and while it can lead to crippling health consequences, it can be avoided. Here are five things you should know about prediabetes: 1. What is prediabetes? Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have prediabetes , a health condition where your blood glucose is higher than normal but not as high as if you had diabetes. 2. How can I find out if I

Discover how diabetes pills can lower blood glucose levels and work in conjunction with meal planning and exercise for effective diabetes management.

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at nine years old. This came as a shock to my parents and me, as no one in my family had ever been diagnosed with diabetes. Still, to this day, I am the only person who lives with diabetes in my family. Prior to my diagnosis, I remember feeling sick and being thirsty all the time. When I went to the doctor, they wanted to test me for everything under the sun, from Crohn’s disease to other autoimmune diseases. When I was finally diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, my parents were supportive, ensuring that I ate healthy foods and exercised regularly. My parents

Diabetes has always been a part of my life. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1959 when I was two years old, and my older brother was diagnosed with type 1 when he was 24 years old. I joke that he’s an amateur and I’m an expert because I have more experience dealing with it. My eye health became an issue in 1982, 23 years after being diagnosed with type 1. At this time in my life, I was very health conscious and enjoyed lifting ridiculously heavy weights several days a week. One day, I suddenly had black cloudy vision in my left eye, which I discovered was a ruptured blood vessel. After

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