I'll Wait 'til it Hurts by David Anderson

News Release/Health Story/Diabetes Awareness

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

December 6, 2004

I'll Wait 'til it Hurts

"If it ain't broke, most people don't fix it."

Do you know if you have diabetes?

Did you know type 2 diabetes symptoms only become

“obvious” once the disease has substantially progressed?

By the time many type 2 diabetics (and often their doctors)

realize action is necessary, the disease, with its destructive

high blood sugars, has been silently damaging their body for

years.

Complications to the blood vessels and tissues of your eyes,

feet, heart, kidneys, and other organs, are likely well underway.

You visit the doctor because you feel bad, and you wish to feel

better. You react to the symptoms of perceived illness. This is

understandable, but does not allow much room for prevention or

early detection of diabetes.

Of course this idea, “Don't see the doctor 'til it hurts,”

comes from our “busier-then-ever” lifestyles. But to blame, to

point fingers after the damage has started is as pointless as is

the leaping bungee-jumper's complaint that his equipment has just

failed. It's a little late to talk about why. Some problems are

better prevented.

If you have type 2 diabetes, you know most of the time you don't

feel very bad. You might think that because you don't feel very

bad, it isn't very serious, and you don't have to do anything

about it just now. "I'll wait 'til it hurts" ...You couldn't be

more wrong.

Diabetes damages your body with high blood sugars. It doesn't care

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BIO:

David Anderson
Free Lance Health writer

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