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After Your Diagnosis
What You Need to Know
How to Avoid—and Even Reverse—Diabetes
Diabetes is rampant right now, but there's a groundbreaking new way to avoid and even reverse the disease.
SLIDESHOW
Celebrities With Type 2 Diabetes
SLIDESHOW
10 Diet and Exercise Tricks to Control Diabetes
One Type 2 Diabetes Patient Feared Insulin, but Didn't Need It
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
5 Things You Should Do After a Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis
However you are diagnosed, it's difficult to make instantaneous lifestyle changes
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
You May Feel Angry or Depressed After a Diabetes Diagnosis
Talking to other people with diabetes may help
When Michelle Kowalski, 33, of Mexico, Mo., was diagnosed with diabetes, she was furious... Read More
ONLINE RESOURCES
Diagnosed With Diabetes? 8 Websites That Can Help
- Site: dLife
- Who it's for: Levity seekers
- Why we like it: In the blog "Been There, Done That," Christel Marchand humorously writes about her experiences with type 1 diabetes. She talks about ways to cope with diagnosis as well as stress–management activities like knitting and doing yoga.
Video: Perspectives on Newly Diagnosed Diabetes
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I thought I could never have cake again
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They can have a normal life
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I now know it wasn't anything I did
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Ignoring diabetes symptoms is risky
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