Average Life expetency of person with diabeties?

[gmoney]

Just curious on this one, if i stay under good control most of the time, will i still live a long life? or will my life be shortent by liek 20-25 years like my doctor said it will be?

because i dont feel like dieing or whatever when im like 50

[bluesky1981]

Hi eveyone,
I m 28 years old girl. Just knew that i have diabetic 5 days ago. Can anyone of you please send me some eating plan menu? I really got no idea what i need to eat. I m 155cm, 45.6kg now. My eyes gettig dry, i got difficlty to breath after having meals.

I m afraid to tell my parents too. please send me any notes to my email to help me keep longer live. Million Thanks from you guys

email: ***@****

[starr239]

how long can  diabetes male live for.....im 61 yrs old type 2...i walk 1/half hours a day...eat right...tablets...
very fit..play touch footie...
roughly cani raxch 70yers old..if looking after myself..i sweet a lot also as i work as a painter...my weight is down very good

thanks
paul

[Freakambition]

I have had JD since I was 4 years old, I am now 28. I didnt control my sugars when I had the chance, now I'm paying for it. My average A1C was 14! I have bad kidneys, can't see without glasses, had 1 baby that almost killed me, can't lose weight. You name it, well, I got it. Yes, my eating habits and contol habits have changed, but I cant un-do what's done. But I can warn people to NOT follow in my footsteps. It's only hurting yourself. So I can honestly say that my life span will not be overly long, and it's my own fault....

[jamie_crichton]

Hi

I have had diabetes for about 7 months, my docs are worried i am keeping my levels too low because my test that looks at the average over 3 months shows that my level was 5.8 mmol

Ok heres the bit i shouldnt say..i enjoy taking extacy with friends but i have noticed that a few weeks after taking them i need to take more insulin to keep control..when im off them for a few weeks i barely need to take any..breakfast i take no insulin at all and keep a brilliant reading...then dinner i take approx 7 units of novorapid and i eat a big dinner, i have come to the conclusion that i am quitting taking them as its going to mess me up in the future and i really want a long life and reading these comments has made me realise that i can have a long life too if i quit the pills.

all in all i really do have a good control over it and never go high but i do have frequent hypo's maybe once every 2 days but quickly bring it up. i say my average reading is around 6 mmol

Its time i start looking after myself...

[gmoney]

Well, that gives me a whole diffent look towards diabeties.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, and again, you guys are a great help to me,

[TonyAlmeida]

Just my 2 cents .....

I understand where gmoney is coming from.  I got the same scary "you'll probably have a shorter than normal person's lifespan" and "you'll probably have to switch to a less active lifestyle" talk from my first endo my second day in the hospital after being diagnosed.  I was already extremely depressed; paranoid about all the insulin shots; confused at what had happened to me; unsure about how I would even eat the next day; and so frightened that I thought I was losing it all together .... the last thing *I* needed to hear from a doctor was that I was now going to die long before my time.  

After I switched endocrinologists, my new endo calmed me down and explained that was the *worst* case scenario (he was also at a loss to explain why my first endo would scare the heck out of me on my second day without mentioning this).  It was what would happen if I didn't keep my sugars in range or didn't do anything to help myself manage the damage that Diabetes left me to live with.  He even mentioned a player from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an example of how even a diabetic can play active sports like pro football and live a perfectly normal life.

We all have limited lifespans - whether we have Diabetes or not.  It's a fact of life.  At some point our number will be up - it happens to everyone.  But Diabetes doesn't necessarily cut our lives shorter .... as long as you don't give up and neglect yourself.  

I figure Diabetes has taken away a lot from me and I've had to fight and will have to continue to fight to reclaim my life back from what it did to me.  I'm not about to let it push me in a corner and take any more of my life.