What can i do?
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Unfortunately, changing a persons lifestyle is not easy. People will change when they are ready and the bad part...it is usually after hitting rock bottom.
Diabetics need to watch their diets and make sure she is getting enough calories. Activities like weight training and cardio will help increase the body's vitality.
Goodluck
better way to controlle sugar
to get low colliery food
also yoga & be happy.
pls give info abt u r sister have wich type of diabetes.
Does she live with you? If she does then check her blood sugar for her 4 times a day. Also consider asking your doc if you could take her to visit a dialysis center and talk to other diabetics. You should consider getting her to join a dance class or some exercise thing with you. Take her roller skating or swimming. Also check the house to be sure it is stocked with fresh fruits and veggies and all the things a diabetic SHOULD have. Ask your doc for a referral to a diabetic nurse and a dietician to help work with her. If you really want to see her live you may have to just take over for her until she sees the light. I do recommend the visit to the dialysis center and a diabetic support group in your area.
You can start by educating yourself on the disease, so you can speak to her from a factual standpoint.
The truth of the matter is, uncontrolled high blood sugar can cause many problems:
Loss of limbs, mainly feet and legs which have to be amputated after they turn black from non ciruclation of blood.
Loss of eyesight.
Being permanently confined to a wheelchair.
Being at 4x the risk for a heart attack.
The good news is that these things are preventable! All she has to do is check her blood sugar.
Go for a walk with her (even inside a mall will work). 30 min exercise a day has been proven to help diabetics.
If she is on oral meds and controls her blood sugar, she may not have to go to injectable insulin. If she is on injectable insulin, and does not check her blood sugar, she can go into a diabetic coma and die.
Your sister is in denial. How long has she had diabetes?
Here is a good link with resources and info from others that have diabetes. It will help you understand and give you tools for getting across to your sister that you love her and want her to live a long time!
http://www.diabeteshealth.com/browse/liv...
Best of luck to you and your sis!
Being a diabetic is not a death sentence! Not unless that is what she wants it to be. There is no shame in having diabetes. It is something she has to learn to deal with. There are some good suggestions in some of the other answers to help her realize that she isn't in this by herself and that she can have some dire results if she doesn't choose to change her lifestyle to make her healthier. She does need to exercise, eat healthier and watch the carbs and calories. But again, she has to want to do all that. You can encourage her and by all means, do that. She needs to know she is not alone. Tell her to go to dlife.com. Lots of young people there that have diabetes. It is a site for diabetics and has all kinds of ino and support.. You are a great sister to be so very caring and concerned. I hope she realizes what a good friend and support system she has in you.
im so sorry, but tell her if she wants to get healthier she should excercise,. Well pray every night hoping she is ok. God Bless Her. With my hopes I hope she will get older than 21.
^Your a good person, but as you know your sister has to want to help herself. Maybe if you all get together, including her boyfriend and talk to her, without judging her, but expressing your concerns and love for her maybe she will realize how much she has to live for.
If she's not already doing so she should be seeing a diabetics teacher, a nutritionist as well as her endocrinologist(diabetes doctor) she should ask them about diabetic classes, not only will she learn from professionals how to treat her diabetes, she will be with other people coping with the same problems she has and they can help her also. This is a tough situation, I have diabetes and am on a pump also, I'm older, but I found doing what I said above helped me a lot. Good luck I hope this helps her as well.
Sometimes it takes a great deal to change someone who is stubborn about things. If all else fails, maybe something with shock value may get her attention to take care of herself. Try asking her what she wants on her gravestone, or how she wants to be buried, or where.
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