Diabetes Basics

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When Sonja Fuller and her husband Bill moved back to Dallas in 1990 after living in Austin, her diabetes got out of control.

Insulin changed my life.

"It seems like every three months we had a death in our family, and my husband lost his job," she recalls. "Everything was stress, stress, stress, and my blood sugars just skyrocketed."

Almost 20 years ago Fuller, now 59, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes—formerly called adult-onset diabetes. At first she was able to control her blood sugar with diet and exercise alone. Then, her doctor prescribed oral drugs.

Eventually, she was taking three kinds of pills for diabetes. "I felt terrible," she says. "I couldn't do anything but sit in a chair and fall...
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What is Diabetes?
Diabetes Articles - Diabetes Basics

Having diabetes means that your body doesn't do a good job of using the food you eat because of a disturbance of carbohydrate metabolism. Most of what you eat needs to be broken down into a simple sugar called glucose, the body's main fuel source.

Different causes, same results.

But for that glucose to get into your cells, it needs insulin, which is a hormone that the beta cells in your pancreas produce. The pancreases of people who have diabetes produce little or no insulin...
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