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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamattic" data-source="post: 677618" data-attributes="member: 138639">Donnellydogs - Doctors and nurses typically don't like to discuss the 'serious' negative stuff like organ damage and long term effects, i find they would much rather just tell you everything will fine if you control it well.   The first thing i did when i left the hospital was look up long term effects to my organs because i knew - Ya i can be thin and fit and look like i wanted, but that won't save my body when I am 60+ and not exercising like i do now.  Since my diagnoses i have drastically changed my training and fitness goals, before it was a 'how do i want to look?' and now its "how long do i want to live?'  I never thought about mortality until my diagnoses, but now its hard to stop TBH. I have read many papers on the long term effects of high sugars, the micro and macro vascular damage that can occur, all the reasons why we need to keep an hbA1c under 7%, and i have figured that 'being healthy' is a mix of both fitness and how our body functions. If you have one without the other, no you aren't healthy. If you maintain a healthy weight, healthy bodily functions, exercise, get enough nutrients and sleep, and manage to keep your sugars down enough, then no reason a diabetic can't be healthy. Our issue (in my eyes) is things can get out of control far faster then non-diabetics. A couple years of high sugars may cause damage we can't bounce back from fully, and that's a little scary.</blockquote>

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