Diabetes is not your fault

Diabetes is not your fault

You’ve just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. If you’re like most people, you’re probably in a state of shock. When you got diagnosed with diabetes. Your doctor probably told you a lot of things about diabetes diets and drugs and insulin and glucose and carbohydrates and blood tests and avoiding this and doing that, and you probably came out of the office with your head spinning because of what the doctor said about your diabetes.

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Most people feel that way when they get news like this about diabetes. If no one in your family ever had diabetes, and especially if you’re thin and thought diabetes only happened to fat people, you’re probably especially puzzeled. What did I do wrong? Whey is this happening to me?

Sometimes a diagnosis comes like a thunderbolt on a sunny day. It can be had to hear this when it comes. Or maybe you were expecting a diagnosis someday. You’ve got relatives with diabetes: your grandmother had diabetes and died from gangrene in her foot. Your father got it when he was 65 and died from a heart attack a few years later. If you’re also over weigh, maybe you figured someday you’d get diabetes yourself. But you probably figured someday would be far in the future, when you sere old. Not today. Not now. I’m not ready yet. Whether you expected it or not, diabetes diagnosis is a shock.