Remember that diabetes drugs are not magic bullets that get your blood glucose under control by themselves. You still need to carefully balance what you eat, stay physically active, and test your blood glucose levels regularly. You've heard the scare tactics about why you should control your blood glucose levels - blindness, heart disease, foot and leg amputations, and kidney disease. Your health care team is constantly reminding you to eat right, exercise regularly, and keep your blood glucose as close to normal as possible. Unfortunately, you are not going to live a healthy life until the day you die and then just keel over.
Diabetes can cause debilitating complications that develop gradually.
Losing your vision, having a heart attack or stroke , losing a leg or experiencing painful neuropathy will significantly decrease your quality of life. And it can cause you to lose your independence at an early age. The good news is that you can help delay or prevent the complications of diabetes by keeping blood glucose levels in good control . The bad news is that too many people don't take advantage of this good news. Many physicians and other health care professionals believed that the results of these landmark studies would have a major impact on how diabetes was treated and the lifestyle decisions people make.