How to Live With Type 1 Diabetes

By HowExpert

Type 1 diabetes is not something to be taken lightly. Spending your entire life studying your illness, instead of actually living, isn't really what most diabetics have in mind either. Knowing the basics and living out the rest is the balance many are looking for, and the “How to Live Life with Type 1 Diabetes” guide is just the resource for the job.

Life is meant to be lived fully and without restraints, and this guide offers countless tools to keep the weight of being a diabetic off your shoulders. Some of them include:

- Information on the newest technologies
- Basic steps, both mental and physical, to aid new diabetics
- What you need to know about your illness
- Personal examples with blood sugar ranges
- Information on associated medical issues as well as how to avoid them
- Tips on exercising, eating, and even sleeping
- Help with how to talk to your doctor
- Specific references on topics like hospitals, insurance, and camps
- Emotional situations and how they affect blood-glucose
- Preferences regarding what to look out for from a real type 1 diabetic

Each chapter brings together the most contemplated, practiced, or forgotten parts of diabetic living, works to identify each one, and lists a number of steps and methods to improve life with type 1 diabetes as a whole. Today is the day to start living your life with diabetes, instead of trying to live around it, and “How To Live with Type 1 Diabetes” is here to help.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Oct 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465842770

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How to Live With Type 1 Diabetes

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Living with Type 1 Diabetes

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Diabetes and Its Effects

Live With It

Initial Effects of Diagnosis

Honeymoon Phase

Chapter 2: Blood Sugar

High or low?

In Conclusion

Chapter 3: Supplies and Medicine

Testing

Insulin

Chapter 4: Living with Diabetes – Part One

Delayed Response

Exercising

Chapter 5: Living with Diabetes – Part Two

Eating

Carb Counting

Chapter 6: Living with Diabetes – Part Three

Emotions and Diabetes

Fasting

Identification

Telling Others About Your Condition

Insurance

Chapter 7: Medical Complications

Organ and Limb Damage

Depression

Chapter 8: Warnings and Lifestyle Changes

Having Children?

Doctors and Appointments

College and the Working World

Chapter 9: Extra Advice

Camps and Classes

Living Lessons

About the Expert

Recommended Resources

CHAPTER 1: DIABETES AND ITS EFFECTS

Diabetes is a disease that affects the pancreas. More specifically, it's characterized by the body's cells not being able to receive insulin from the beta cells that secrete it within the pancreas. We're not dealing with anatomy, though, so I'll get straight to the point. Type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, occurs when the body's autoimmune system targets and destroys the beta cells. Currently, at least, there is no cure because, regardless of how many beta cells are implanted, the body will continue to destroy them.

LIVE WITH IT

Harsh, maybe, but let's face it: you only have one option if you're planning on living. Finding out that you have an incurable disease can get a bit nerve-wracking, and that's where this guide comes in. Before getting started, though, there is one all-important thing that needs to be understood: type 1 diabetes is an illness that is reactive, not proactive. That means how it affects you is based almost entirely on your own actions and decisions in life. Because diabetes is just as much a mental disease as a physical one (if not more). I'll start with some of the emotional aspects.

INITIAL EFFECTS OF DIAGNOSIS

In my case, I was sitting in a Kaiser hospital lobby waiting on some blood tests. I remember my mom was crying, but I really didn't mind it all that much. It wasn't cancer or anything, right? This is the usual reaction, but we'll talk about the other end of the spectrum too. Anyway, I felt fine, so there wasn't too much to be worried about. If you're feeling this way, it's because of a few things.

First of all, you're most likely under the