Sunday, March 25, 2012

Healing Diabetes - What Works?

By Megan Jocy


Treatments for diabetes are often difficult. The disease itself is hard enough to diagnose. Making sure it's treated properly is a whole different challenge. You can help control your disease with medication and lifestyle changes instead of letting your disease control you. As you may know it takes time to figure out which treatment is going to work best for you without disrupting your lifestyle too much. This article will discuss a few different ways to treat diabetes that work.

Insulin injections are not a necessity for all diabetics. Some diabetics have the capability of confronting their sickness with oral treatments. This is indeed pretty easy, in comparison to having to face it by inserting a needle into your skin a few times during the day. Finding a decent regimen for diabetes will definitely take some time because of all the options for oral treatments. Sulfonylurea and Biguanide are some of the accepted oral regiments for diabetes. These are the oral medications that are usually prescribed to diabetics who are in the process of discovering a treatment path.

Jot everything down. Take note of the numbers for your blood sugar every time you check them. Keep track of the exact times you give yourself your regimen. Write down what time you eat your meals and snacks. Write down what you eat for those meals and snacks. Write down the fluids you consume every day and what time you drink them. Keep track of any moods that are out of sorts. Keep track of how much sleep you're getting at night and how frequently you use the restroom. This can be hard to endure, but when it starts, it will help you better cultivate your diabetes medications quite a bit. Keeping track of everything will help you and your physician determine which regimens are and are not working well for you.

Sometimes, in extreme cases, people are not able to treat their diabetes through "regular" treatment options. For some reason these people are struck with an extreme and a debilitating form of diabetes that cannot be helped through "normal" treatments. Not so long ago, this type of diabetes was untreatable and the sufferers would simply have to do the best they could with what they had. Today, a person may be able to get a transplant. Islet cell transplants are becoming more widely used to replace pancreatic cells that are used to produce insulin. If your strain of diabetes is extreme and no other forms of treatment will work for you, a pancreatic transplant might be an option (if you can find a donor). Due to the invasive nature of the procedure, doctors don't like to do a transplant unless there are no other options.

If you have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes there are some particular needs that have to be taken care of. Not only do you need to care for your own body, but you'll also need to care for the growing baby. Most obgyns know quite a bit about gestational diabetes and most women who have to battle the disorder are able to control it solely with their diet. Get together with your doctor to make a choice on the most appropriate way to take care of the disease, so that you and your baby can each be as healthy as possible. Diabetes is difficult to control. This is because the treatment are different for every person and every person will react differently to the different treatments. One treatment might be just the cure your neighbors need but for you it could be horrible wrong. You will quickly see that it takes time to adapt to any treatment but it is necessary to try several before settling on one you might be alright with. Try not to get too discouraged. Sometime in the future your doc will hit the nail on the head and your life will level out and go back to normal. Eventually you will set up a diabetes treatment regimen that makes you feel like no changes have been made to your life at all.




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