Do You Have Diabetes? Do You Know The 5 Main Complications of Diabetes?

If you have diabetes then you know how hard it is to fight to keep your blood sugar levels under control. Doctors want diabetics to eat four meals during the day, instead of three. Four meals and three snacks are the requirements nowadays. The smaller meals and snacks are suppose to help keep the blood sugar levels closer to the same range throughout the day. Click Here!

Most people who have diabetes suffer from type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the kind where the body either does not produce enough insulin for the body or the body does not use the insulin properly. Either way, when doctors run glucose tolerance tests, they can see excess glucose in the blood and the urine and they know the patient has diabetes.

Usually someone is unaware they have diabetes until the symptoms become so severe they can no longer be ignored, We have all read that excessive thirst and frequent urination are signs of diabetes. However, most people do not think about it being diabetes until they get several symptoms because diabetes is last thing they expect to have. Click Here!


If you have diabetes and your blood sugar levels go uncontrolled over a period of time, you will undoubtedly develop one or more of the complications of diabetes. This can happen and you will be completely unaware it is happening.

If you can control your blood sugar levels and maintain a healthy diet with more vegetables and fruits than carbohydrates, then you might win the war against diabetes. Do not forget to throw in regular exercise and, if the doctor gives you medications to help control your blood sugar levels then follow those directions exactly as directed. It will be to your benefit to do this. If you do, you might be able to beat the diabetes.

Below is a list of the 5 main complications of diabetes and what happens to you when diabetes progresses that far.

1. Diabetes affects your heart and cardiovascular system.
2. Diabetes can cause neuropathies, or nerve damage. There are 4 major kinds of neuropathies: peripheral, autonomic, proximal, and focal.
3. Diabetes causes eye disease.
4. Diabetes causes kidney disease.
5. Diabetes can cause sexual and urological problems.

If you are not aware of how these 5 complications caused by diabetes do to you and your body, let me explain it to you. Click Here!


All of these complications caused by diabetes can do major damage to your heart, arteries, nerves, kidneys and eyes. If you have diabetes, you are twice as likely to have a heart attack or a stroke or heart failure, kidney failure, and eye disease as someone who does not have diabetes.

Nerve damage in the legs, arms, hands, and feet causes the diabetic a lot of tingling, numbness and severe pain. There is no medication that can stop the pain. Doctors tell you to get your blood sugar levels under control and the pain and symptoms will lessen. The pain is much worse at night and the pills doctors prescribe do very little to help. Click Here!

Diabetes can affect every major organ in the body and the diabetic can end up blind and on dialysis because of kidney failure. Click Here!


I tell you these things not to frighten you, but to let you know the horrors wrought on your body by diabetes. Do whatever you have to do to get your blood sugar levels under control. Your quality of life depends on it. Your life depends on it!