Type 2 Diabetes:After Your Diagnosis

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Type 2 Diabetes

  1. Start Here
  2. Risks, Symptoms, and Tests
  3. After Your Diagnosis
  4. Doctors and Other Health-Care Support
  5. Monitoring Your Blood Sugar
  6. Eating Healthy
  7. Weight Loss and Exercise
  8. Living With Diabetes
  9. Non-Insulin Drugs
  10. If You Need Insulin
  11. Complications of Diabetes

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I Felt Guilty After Being Diagnosed With Diabetes

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"With more thought and education I've come to realize that it's not anything I did" (:30)
Nancy, age 54, felt like she had done something wrong after she was diagnosed with diabetes.

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Did you feel guilty after a diabetes diagnosis?
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It’s not uncommon to say “What did I do?” when you’re first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. You may feel guilty or think that you did something wrong. While excess weight and a sedentary lifestyle can dramatically increase your risk of type 2 diabetes, genes and others factors also play a role (not all people who are overweight develop diabetes and not all people with type 2 diabetes are overweight).