"Being diabetic" can mean a lot of things. How being diabetic affects you might be very different than it might be for someone else. Might I suggest that you get an appointment with the best specialist in diabetes in your area ASAP!
If you are overweight, do what it takes to lose some weight. Sometimes that is all it takes to deal with a diagnosis of diabetes. Exercise lowers blood sugar levels and helps raise metabolism and weight loss.
You probably need to look carefully at your diet and most likely alter what you eat, at least somewhat. There is a ton of information about diabetic diets on the internet.
Your doctor may put you on medication(s). If you are lucky, you will get good results controlling you blood sugar levels with Metformin, which is inexpensive and often very effective. There are other medications that also may be tried, and if your problems cannot be handled by medications alone, you may have to inject insulin.
Now that you know that you are diabetic, you should start testing your blood sugar. Your doctor will probably give you a prescription for a machine and test strips. You want your sugar levels to be around 100-125. If they are lots higher than that, they are too high. If they are much lower than 100, you may need to do something to raise them a bit, like eating a piece of fruit.
Your doctor will want to do blood testing. The best test currently to see how your diabetes management is going is the A1C test. I don't know just how the test itself works, but it measures your blood sugar levels for about the previous 3 months. The doctors like to see results that are under 7. If the results are over 7, the doctor may want you to try something else. They also test for liver enzymes, to make sure your liver is doing OK from the medications and will probably test cholesterol and triglycerides.
Adult onset diabetes or type II diabetes is very common. My understanding of it is that the body either produces less insulin than it used to, or else the insulin is not used as effectively as it was when you were younger. Anyhow, the mechanism that used to control your blood sugar automatically quits working right, and so you have to figure out ways to control the levels other ways.
Not controlling high blood sugar levels can do all sorts of bad things to you, including blindness, loss of circulation leading to amputations and even death.
But most people who have been diagnosed as being diabetic are successful at managing the disease and live long, reasonably healthy lives.
I was diagnosed more than 10 years ago as being diabetic. I lost weight, am reasonably careful about my diet, exercise (though probably not as much as I should!), take my medications as directed and usually my A1C levels are under 7. I think I am doing OK, at least with my diabetes, but I keep getting tested every 3 months.
Good luck with your diabetes problems. If you haven't already done it, get an appointment with the best diabetes specialist in your area. Do what you have to to keep yourself healthy. For most people, diabetes can be managed if you try, and do what has to be done.
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