Type 2 Diabetes:After Your Diagnosis

When professional photographer Lew Everling, 41, was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes three years ago at a health screening at the Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Ind., where he was working, his blood sugar was 360 mg/dl. This is well over the normal cutoff of 99 mg/dl, or even the range that would imply prediabetes, 100 to 125 mg/dl...  Read More

When it comes to type 2 diabetes, you need diet and exercise goals that encourage you to succeed—not ones that set you up to fail, says Ann Goebel-Fabbri, PhD, a psychologist and investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston...  Read More

If you just found out you had type 2 diabetes, your first reaction might be "Oh no, not insulin!"

When Donna Rivers, 57, of Seattle, left her doctor's office with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, she had only one thing on her mind: Needles....    Read More

There are a few things you need to do right way.

Don't let the past haunt you. Type 2 diabetes is partly genetic; many people have childhood memories of grandparents or other relatives with diabetes who died after amputations, blindness, heart attacks, or strokes. A lot has changed in recent years...  Read More

If you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you may feel angry or depressed.

When Michelle Kowalski, 33, of Mexico, Mo., was diagnosed with diabetes, she was furious...  Read More