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<blockquote data-quote="Spiral" data-source="post: 96651" data-attributes="member: 19371"><p>popalyjune, diabetes is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act and as such your employer needs to make some reasonable accomodation to enable you to manage your condition. If you need time off to attend clinics or other health checks, you will have to tell your employer, who has a right to see letters confirming appointment times etc If your occupation had any limitiations related to diabetes, I think you'd know. </p><p></p><p>I don't think you are obliged to tell you are diabetic, but I think a quiet work can't go amiss. For me to manage my blood sugar I need to manage my diet, this includes not going too long between meals, so if your breaks are irregular, this is something you might want to think about and a medical reason is hard to ignore.</p><p></p><p>As far as diet goes take a look around here, especially the diet and food forums. Ask as many questions as you like. You need to find something that you enjoy and will help you get your blood sugar levels down. I started by just cutting out added sugar and sweet treats and junk food and adding more fresh and raw. It took me about 3 months to find a diet that I felt I could stick to and gave me the results I was looking for (I low carb) and you do need to be able to stick to it because you will be diabetic for the rest of your life. There are lots of fairly immediate health benefits in getting the sugar levels down - my daily headaches stopped, I have more energy, the indigestion and acid reflux cleared up. I think my diabetes diagnosis is probably the best thing to have happened to my health for a while, mine was diagnosed early, before complications had set in and I feel better than I have for years because I have changed my diet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiral, post: 96651, member: 19371"] popalyjune, diabetes is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act and as such your employer needs to make some reasonable accomodation to enable you to manage your condition. If you need time off to attend clinics or other health checks, you will have to tell your employer, who has a right to see letters confirming appointment times etc If your occupation had any limitiations related to diabetes, I think you'd know. I don't think you are obliged to tell you are diabetic, but I think a quiet work can't go amiss. For me to manage my blood sugar I need to manage my diet, this includes not going too long between meals, so if your breaks are irregular, this is something you might want to think about and a medical reason is hard to ignore. As far as diet goes take a look around here, especially the diet and food forums. Ask as many questions as you like. You need to find something that you enjoy and will help you get your blood sugar levels down. I started by just cutting out added sugar and sweet treats and junk food and adding more fresh and raw. It took me about 3 months to find a diet that I felt I could stick to and gave me the results I was looking for (I low carb) and you do need to be able to stick to it because you will be diabetic for the rest of your life. There are lots of fairly immediate health benefits in getting the sugar levels down - my daily headaches stopped, I have more energy, the indigestion and acid reflux cleared up. I think my diabetes diagnosis is probably the best thing to have happened to my health for a while, mine was diagnosed early, before complications had set in and I feel better than I have for years because I have changed my diet. [/QUOTE]
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