The treatment of diabetes is a team process. The most important concept or issue for patients is education. The more you know about your diabetes, the better care you'll take of yourself and the less problems you're likely to have. So everyone with diabetes deserves an evaluation by a registered dietician, either through their doctor's office or local hospital, as well as a visit with what is called a certified diabetes educator. In many locales, the registered dietician often functions as the certified diabetes educator.
Many facilities run classes.
Many people actually learn better in a class setting, because they learn from other people's experiences, and the other patients in the class often bring up questions that they themselves may have forgotten, or not thought of asking. So step one is education because, again, the cornerstone of therapy for Type II is good nutrition and exercise. It's important to know that people don't have to lose weight to their ideal body weight, but even losing ten to twelve percent of their current weight will often give them a dramatic improvement in their diabetes. The next part of the process involves medication, and that is a decision made by the physician. If someone is only mildly symptomatic, and blood sugars are below 200, the MD will often allow the patient to try to control things with diet and exercise before beginning a medication.