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> I feel so ashamed now that I was

> sitting here crying.

I would like you not to feel ashamed

about it, . Everybody feels

crying bad about being diagnosed

with diabetes - I never heard of

anybody getting a kick out of it!

What is not good is being left alone

with it and you now have that behind

you. From here on out everything gets

better!

> I know there are lots of people out

> in this world that are a lot worse

> than me and I was feeling sorry for

> myself.

It is quite natural, , and it is

better to cry it out than bottle it

up. Just think of somebody in your

same position who is blind or dumb or

both and has no Internet access! No

matter how bad you feel things are,

just around the corner is somebody

who is worse off than you.

> Its just that My grandmother had

> died from complications from

> diabetes and then for the doctor

> to tell me that I had it---I just

> flipped out and needed somebody

> to talk to about it.

The doctor is probably telling

patients every day that they they

have something they are not going

to like to hear about. Some people

like to be told straight out and

some like to have it wrapped up a

bit. I never heard of a gentle way

to break the news to somebody that

they have diabetes.

He might have thought that as you

had a family history of it, he

was only confirming something that

you already suspected.

For as many people with diabetes

who had somebody in the family who

died with it (notice I didn't

write " from " it!), you will find

just as many who never had anybody

in the family with diabetes. I don't

believe that there is any sure

connection, especially if it does

not show until you reach 21. If

you have it now, then you will

still have it the day you die, even

if you are 99 when that happens.

But that does not necessarily mean

that you died " from " it!

> I have to go back to the doctor

> tomorrow and see what kind of

> treatment he is going to put me on.

> He had told me to come home and

> write down my diet and my readings.

> I got a monitor.

He sounds like a good, methodical

physician. He wants to establish

a baseline so that he can assess

the effects of the treatment.

> Here are some of my readings:

> 7 am--290

> 12:30 noon--302

> 4:00pm--214

> 8:00 pm --348-----

> That was yesterday. I felt

> horrible all day yesterday.

> What do you think about them numbers?

Yes, that looks like diabetes for

sure but you might have something

else at the same time if you felt

" horrible " . One of the big problems

with diabetes is that people have

high numbers and don't feel a thing.

You might have an infection of

some kind - that always shows on

your readings well before you get

a fever. You might have a urinary

tract infection, that is quite

common. I imagine that your doctor

sent some blood away for tests, has

got the results already and will

treat anything else at the same

time.

> I was told they were high, I

> didn't get much information from

> my doctor when I went to him, I am

> going to ask questions when I go

> back tomorrow.

There is so much information that

he wouldn't have known where to

start and you probably wouldn't

have been listening to him.

The usual way to give diabetes

patients information is to hold

small group sessions in which a

qualified diabetes instructor

presents the information in easy

doses, an hour or two a week.

Being an MD doesn't automatically

qualify him as a teacher and many

of them have difficulty using

simple language that patients can

understand without having been to

med school first.

Regards