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Managing Diabetes Stress
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Managing Diabetes Stress

A personal account of the stress involved in managing diabetes and the importance of maintaining blood sugar levels to prevent further complications.

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My emotions and my well-being, because if I am not looking after myself, basically to prevent other medical problems occurring, if I don't keep my blood sugars in control, might go wrong with my eyes, something might go wrong with my kidneys, my you know the tingling in my feet or my hands and I just don't want to cope with that and that's to me that diabetes is very stressful to me. I don't know about anyone else but it is stressful because you need to look after all those things as well but the only way you can look after those is if you have your your blood sugars under control. And the more they are under control, below seven or minus, not below seven, but minus between eight and nine, because I've kept it that way, to me, that's the important part of keeping my sugar levels under, well, below the cutoff figure. And that will prevent me from other medical conditions that occur with diabetes.

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