How long can someone live with type 2 diabetes?
August 2, 2009 by Diabetes and Blood Glucose Tips
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I recently found out that my mother has type 2 diabetes. Its something that runs in our family plus she’s over weight and is obviously in the process of losing. Still, I like to be told straight up the dangers or what may happen with things. So be honest.
Information On Type 2 Diabetes
I recently found out that my mother has type 2 diabetes. Its something that runs in our family plus she’s over weight and is obviously in the process of losing. Still, I like to be told straight up the dangers or what may happen with things. So be honest.
Information On Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes Feedback: A person can live with Type 2 Diabetes for many many years, into old age, just like any other person. The thing is that such a person has an increased risk of suffering serious health problems like heart disease, lack of circulation, and even blindness. You should try to help your mom to lose weight. The good news is that for many people, once they lose excess weight, the Type 2 Diabetes actually disappears. You should do exercise together, even starting with light walking and perhaps encourage your mom to see a dietician. She has a long life ahead of her!
Diabetes Feedback: I’m not really sure. I’ve had it 5 1/2 years now. And I’m doing ok. I dont need meds. or insulin yet, cause I have mine under control through my diet. The better you take care of yourself and keep it under control, the longer you live. But your best bet is to talk to your doctor about it. Being overweight doesnt help at all. I was the first in my family to have it. I’m 49 now. Just 4 years ago my dad found out he had it. If others in your family have it you’re more at risk to have it. But not all family members do get it. It just makes you at a higher risk to have it.
Diabetes Feedback: Well, that depends on how you treat your body. If you don’t take care of yourself then you will not live very long. If you check your sugar levels and maintain a healthy diet, then you can live as long as you want. Just check your blood often and eat right and see the doctor when the littlest thing comes up.
Diabetes Feedback: As long as she works hard to manage her symptoms and visits the doctor regularly, she’ll likely be around for a long, long time.
Diabetes Feedback: A person with type 2 diabetes can live as long, if not longer than anyone else. But your mother MUST check her blood sugar and make sure it stays under control. Uncontrolled blood sugar is why complications arise with type 2 diabetes, such as gout, retinopathy, neuropathy, kidney failure, etc. Make sure she follows a healthy diet and takes her medications as prescribed. If you are there to support her, she should do just fine!
Diabetes Feedback: diabetes mellitus (DM)
a metabolic disease in which carbohydrate utilization is reduced and that of lipid and protein enhanced; it is caused by an absolute or relative deficiency of insulin and is characterized, in more severe cases, by chronic hyperglycemia, glycosuria, water and electrolyte loss, ketoacidosis, and coma; long-term complications include development of neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, generalized degenerative changes in large and small blood vessels, and increased susceptibility to infection. See Also: non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Their chances of living will depend on their adequacy to cooperate with the strict instructions from the doctor, strict diet, and proper medications. It will also depend if the person afflicted with DM is complicated by other diseases, like heart problems, or other gastrointestinal problems.
Diabetes Feedback: she can live a long time, but she must stick to her weight loss and exercise program. Type 2 can be controlled by diet and exercise, but if the doctor tells her to use medication she must.
The dangers for her are she could have a stroke, heart attack or suffer the effects of gangrene(due to poor circulation).
Be very supportive of her, I suggest if you can going walking with her to help her lose weight.
Diabetes Feedback: diet … diet … exercise …. and diet ….. they are the most important things concerning diabetics….
i mention diet more often because we are set in our way ( I still have a small candy stash even though I’m type 2)
we have more difficulty changing the fact that we like pie, cake, cookies, soda, french fries …..then we do to increase the amount we exercise
if you stick to your guidelines, you can live a long time …. break the rules… and soon you’ll loose the sensation in your extremities.and other debilitating things leading to death ….
hope that was clear & concise
Diabetes Feedback: My mother also has type 2 diabetes for about 15 years. She had a bad scare with her feet feeling numb and she was having problems with her heart. So she started seeing a dietitian and she has lost some weight and her sugar rates are now lower than it used to get. So yes you can live a very long live as long as you take care of yourself.
Diabetes Feedback: as she gets older so will want more sweets stuff and she will have nerve damage starting I think in the fingers or other areas and the gang green I am remembering my best friend he was type 2 and 1 year older then me he was blind too We did everything together he was so cool! nerve damage leads to gang green and to cutting off parts if it is that aggressive but it is not alway that fast if you keep your weight in check and your food you might live a happy olong life a very good idea I had right now is see if you can get her a wheel chair that she could use as a walker and when she feels tired she can sit down and be pushed. my mom she has a bad knee and times she doesa not use the chair like the Popcorn Festival that will be starting up here in Marion Ohio in September sometime I put mom in the wheel chair and I push her 4 blocks to the festival and we sit at one of the two stages and watch entertainment so sometimes like to sit on the park benches there give her a break from the wheel chair so I take the wheel chair and sit down LOL
people sometimes wonder poor guy until I get out of the chair to go buy something or I might just wheel myself to get something .but doing that also makes me reilize what people in chairs have to endure name calling and talking behind there backs. and it has made me a better person for that too Now if I see a person in a chair in need to reach something I will do it no questions asked automatic.
my friend as I said he was type 2 and Blind he lose his sight 3 years before i met hi. He was so drawn in to himself it was so sad. I started talking to him and he really lit up and responed like a whole new world to him we talked on the phone off and on for two years and then he got worse nerve damage to his fingers he could not feel anything and he had all 5 fingers removed and they thought they got it all nope it spread all over his body to different parts like his left hand so they removed that all the fingers on the right hand hie left arm upto the elbow and 8 of his toes and be that time he was on a ventilator and he wanted so much to talk to me but I never knew about that the last 6 months until his parent sent me a letter saying he died I miss him!
Just tell your mother to keep the weight down as much as possible and do not miss a shot!!! that is so SO important!
some nerve damage is inevible but you might keep it at a slow rate. Good Luck and please help her as much as possible
cause overworking is twice as hard on her then someone that is not type 1 or 2 but normal in that sence. my dad was type 1 he took pill when he was 24 years old but he died of a heart attack so you see if she takes care you can beat it she still has to take shots but yshe might and might not die from that.
Diabetes Feedback: With proper diet, exercise and blood glucose control….a type 2 diabetic can expect to live close to the average lifespan. However, early cardiovascular disease is a major possiblity after years of poorly controlled blood glucose and lack of exercise, which greatly shortens years of life.