said he eats whatever he wants, he stopped taking his meds years ago, he rarely takes a reading and when he does it is always over 200, sometimes even 300..he looks great, say he feels great. Should I even continue trying to help him? He says he doesn't believe in diabetes.Thursday, January 12, 2012
My 62 Year Old Uncle Told Me That He Hasn't Treated In Type 2 Diabetes Since 1999. He?
said he eats whatever he wants, he stopped taking his meds years ago, he rarely takes a reading and when he does it is always over 200, sometimes even 300..he looks great, say he feels great. Should I even continue trying to help him? He says he doesn't believe in diabetes.
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XxStabMySoulxX - Continue trying to help him.
ReplyDeleteNana Lamb - He is on a very long trip to the land of DeNile and may never come back. No, don't bother helping him until he admits to being diabetic. He does not appreciate anything you do for him.
ReplyDeleteVulcan - Lots of people are misdiagnosed with diabetes. Doctors are just crazy to get people stuck on medications for this. This happens to any number of people - he might never had had diabetes to begin with.
ReplyDeleteJohn W - Living with glucose levels over 150 mg/dl leads to nerve damage, the symptoms aren't immediately obvious and it takes decades for the problems to occur but they do occur.
ReplyDeleteA common occurence is if the nerve damage is in the feet, the diabetic then can't feel any injuries they may have on their feet till its gangrenous and has to be amputated. Another occurence is the vagal nerve which ties your entire digestive tract together when it's affected it's called diabetic gastroparetis and your entire digestive tract is out of sync, one bite and you're full, you throw up foods eaten weeks ago, food ferments in your stomach, food releases from your stomach to your intestines at random times so your glucose spikes unpredictably, and you may have to feed by IV.
The effects are long term so long as he doesn't get Ketoacidosis and being type 2 he probably still has enough insulin to prevent that. Basically he's just on an extended Atkins diet. When the consequences do occur and they will, it'll be too late to do anything except minimize the damage if possible. You should at least try to get him to see an eye doctor as blindness is possible and you should try and get him to see some diabetic advisors and maybe meet some of the people who have suffered the consequence of living with high glucose levels. The first diabetic I ever met had her legs cut off and wore thick glasses.
Roy - Good for him!
ReplyDeleteIf you watch the 'Simply Raw - Reversing Diabetes in 30 days' documentary, when one of the patients isn't cured of diabetes, he's interviewed and says that he strongly believes that he will always have diabetes and that it is incurable!
"As a man thinketh..."
Noccie - Some people go many years without even knowing they have diabetes. Your uncle will eventually have some secondary conditions. High blood sugar levels lead to nerve, kidney and blood vessel damage. He is at increased risk for stroke and heart attacks. When the nerve damage happens, it is not reversible - he'll believe in diabetes when his feet hurt him all the time. However, not all people with diabetes develop complications. Your uncle may be able to live a long life without problems. For me, I'd take the medication to avoid the potential risks, but everyone lives their own lives and makes choices and takes the risks they want.
ReplyDeleteDon't nag him or bother him about it because he will not change unless something drastic happens.
LABL - The only person you can change is you. Your uncle needs to take responsibility for his diabetes -- until he does there is nothing you can do except watch him self destruct. The diabetes will win in the end. His denial will bring him much in the way of suffering. Diabetes affects every cell in the body. When the pain of neuropathy strikes his feet and/ or his hands he will wish he had listened to you. It is very sad to know that right now your uncle could turn this around. Diabetes can be beat but it must first be recognized and then it must be controlled.
ReplyDeleteRetinopathy, neuropathy, kidney disease, kidney failure and dialysis, gastropheresis, are just some of the long menu of the horrific results of diabetes.
Get the book that changed our lives. "Diabetes Solution" by Dr. Richard Bernstein. Read it yourself and then give it to your uncle as a sincere gesture of your love and concern for his health. This book will give him an education, will give him hope and just may save his life like it did for my husband.
Good luck and God bless you for caring. God bless your uncle as well -- he's going to need it!
Ben Trolled - Denial is one of the dangerous aspects of this Disease
ReplyDeletehe will get Diabetic Neuropathy. go blind , have kidney failure, and probably die of a heart attack.Not to mention amputation..
Take care
Ben Trolled
Li - He is a very strong man!
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