Survival Type 2 Diabetes Statistics

1. 65% of type 2 Diabetics do not know what an A1c reading is nor do they know what theirs is or what a person with Diabetes type 2 "blood sugar under control" reading should be.
   

   An A1c reading is key for diabetes control and is taken by your Diabetes Doctors lab, normally every three months to check on your "blood sugar control" progress. Most Insurance will pay for this every three months. This is a much more accurate overall indication of your blood sugar level status then the "at the moment" finger prick test. 12 Would be a really bad reading and anything under 6 is considered "tolerable". This is a test that shows your average blood sugar for the last three months.
   
   Mine for example was 10.5 the first time in. 7.5 the second and 6.1 on the third. Next test I hope to be under 5.5
   

   
   

2. Only 30% of Diabetic patients take their medications.

   
   

   
   Maybe this is because they see no immediate harmful result and ignore what invisible damage is progressing (such as their eyesight) that is unknown to them at the moment. Once underway this one is almost unstoppable. This includes nerve damage, cardiovascular, kidney damage etc.
   
   Perhaps they have not taken the time to educate themselves about diabetes, do not want to now take the time to learn about it, or simply deny the serious reality of it and hope it will go away. Maybe this newspaper will help.
   
   Perhaps they, like myself, who researched the side affects of the medication prescribed and researched and learned how to "control' their diabetes as well or better without the medication (supplements and diet) decided to stop the medication.
   
   Affect of the medication looking more risky then the illness.
   
   My doctor approving after seeing my new A1c improvements attained without medication.
   

   
   

3. 83% do not know what insulin resistance is.
   

   
   Most of the public when they hear "diabetes" believe that your body has a problem and no longer produces the normal amount of insulin and if you have it really bad you will need to take regular "insulin" shots.
   
   That is true for Type One Diabetes. Here we are dealing with the 90% that have type two (mostly older people).
   
   Most of these people in contrast still have the capability and still do produce up to four times normal insulin when needed.
   
   Their basic problem is usually they have body cells that have all developed "insulin resistance". Insulin's job or function is to turn cells on to accepting blood sugar. These cells no longer respond normally to insulin's command. The body produces more and more insulin to try to get the cells to accept the sugar. Eventually with four times the normal insulin you still have excess sugar not accepted.
   
   Giving medication that whips the bodies production of insulin even further is often a stop gap measure as the cells get even more resistant.
   
   Then external insulin is administered to add even more. What the damage is from all this excess insulin has not been fully
   determined.
   
   This is all treating the symptoms, little has been done to "cure" or fix the problem of cells resisting the absorption of blood sugar. Fix these cells "insulin resistance" problem and you have a "cure for diabetes."
   

   
   

4. Misconceptions or Faulty Assumptions about their Diabetes.
   

   
   Mistakenly believe that if they keep their blood sugar finger prick test under 120 fasting and 180 after meals they have their diabetes under control and its advancement arrested.
   
   Medicare says if you have two fasting readings over 130 you qualify as a diabetic. Keep in mind this does not mean under that and you are no longer a diabetic. Some studies show if you have over 86 fasting (considered "normal" reading") you will still have over a 40% increase in cardiovascular problems, deaths etc.
   

   
   

5. The biggest misconception or faulty assumption is that most have been led to believe that if they get their blood sugar "under control," their diabetes is arrested and they can expect to go on with a normal life expectancy.
   

   
   A Diabetics life expectancy is cut in half.
   
   Getting your blood sugar under control does not stop its progression, it only slows it. It still happens, just not as fast.
   

   
   

6. Many believe that under "great medical care" they will survive its damage.
   

   
   Ask your doctor to admit to you that once diabetic damage is done it is almost totally irreversible. He will also likely tell you (only if you ask) that once damage is under way there is no sure way to stop its progression, only to slow it. Ask him.
   
   Your doctor prescribes medications for your diabetes only to treat the symptoms.
   He has no medications or treatments to "stop it". If he does, call me immediately.
   

   
   

7. Misconception. All I have to do is hang on, and stall it off, they will find a cure for it any day now.
   

   
   They said they would have a cure for it in ten years. That was 25 years ago.
   
   If they found something today that cured it they would have to do years of repeated and duplicated studies,
   
   The FDA would then need to look at it for years before approving it.
   
   By the time your doctor had it available you and I will likely be long since boxed up and at room temperature.
   
   It is necessary to look beyond the medical world for an answer or solution for you and me.

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