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 Was Sinking Into a Diabetic Coma

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I woke up in intensive care. Just like that, I went from 0 to 60 in my Maserati (:57)
Deborah, 57, thought she had strep throat, but she was sinking into a diabetic coma.

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High blood sugar that’s left untreated can cause diabetic ketoacidosis or diabetic hyperosmolar syndrome; both are life threatening.

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