Different mentality means different endings for sugar lovers

Every diabetic patient is very concerned about his or her blood sugar changes, and may put in a lot of effort in medication, diet, and exercise. In fact, mentality is also very important in affecting blood sugar. Different attitudes towards diabetes will lead to different outcomes for people with diabetes. What is your mentality?

Mentality 1 - indifference

Mr. Liu was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. He said: "Diabetes is nothing to be afraid of. I don't feel particularly uncomfortable now, and many people have diabetes now. I am not worried." Many people with diabetes, especially those who are not Anyone who knows about diabetes will have this mentality.

Diabetes is a chronic disease, and many harms will not appear in a short period of time, such as kidney disease, eye disease, etc. These damages will only appear after the illness lasts for a long time. Some people always feel that as long as there is no abnormality in their body and they can live a normal life, they do not need treatment. If this continues, until you find that high blood sugar has seriously affected your health, such as blurred vision, albuminuria, and neuropathy, if you take measures for treatment, you may have missed the best opportunity for treatment. , because when these damages develop to a certain extent, they are impossible to recover from and your health may cease to exist.

Of course, diabetes also has some emergencies, which can threaten your health and even life in a very short period of time, such as severe hypoglycemia. Some people with diabetes who have an "indifferent" attitude will start to pay more attention to the disease because of a sudden hypoglycemia event, and some people will only receive formal treatment because they have obvious chronic complications.

Mentality two - stop when you are good

"Just accept it when it's good" is originally a compliment and means not to be greedy in doing things, but here it refers to the wrong mentality towards diabetes. Feng Min has been suffering from diabetes for a year. At first, she followed the doctor's instructions and took medicine on time every day, and her blood sugar gradually returned to normal levels. She said: “It’s troublesome to take medicine every day, but now my blood sugar is well controlled, so I don’t take medicine anymore, and I don’t pay as much attention to my diet as before.

Diabetic patients need to take medication on a long-term and regular basis, which can easily lead to boredom, which is one of the main reasons for poor compliance among diabetic patients. As a lifestyle disease, diabetes requires patients to control their blood sugar levels for a long time, which can be comprehensively controlled through drugs, diet, exercise, etc. If one day you feel that your blood sugar has stabilized and no longer needs treatment, diet, exercise, and drug therapy can all If you give up, your blood sugar will rise again, which will also pose a threat to your health. Therefore, sugar control is a "protracted battle" and sugar control is a lifelong task.

Mentality Three - Excessive Attention

There are also many patients who are overly concerned about diabetes. Most of these patients have already mastered some knowledge about diabetes and know that the complications of diabetes are truly terrifying. Aunt Zhao is a diabetic. She said: "The scary thing about diabetes is that its complications can harm multiple organs throughout the body, so I pay close attention to changes in blood sugar. As long as blood sugar fluctuates, I will take corresponding measures to avoid complications." disease."

Diabetes requires patients' attention, but "going too far is not enough" is a mistake that many people with diabetes make. If you pay too much attention to changes in your condition, it will cause two problems.

First, diabetes management must be personalized. This does not mean that all patients’ blood sugar must be strictly controlled. For example, the elderly, because all body functions have declined relatively, if blood sugar is strictly controlled, severe hypoglycemia is likely to occur; and children, Since the body is not yet fully developed, and the amount of exercise and food intake of children is often out of control, if blood sugar is strictly controlled, it is likely to cause blood sugar to rise and fall like a "roller coaster".

Second, if you pay too much attention to blood sugar changes, when blood sugar levels fluctuate, it will inevitably affect your mood. Everyone should know that emotions and blood sugar interact with each other. Emotions can cause blood sugar fluctuations, and blood sugar fluctuations can also cause mood changes.

Mentality 4 - A long-term illness leads to a cure

Many old diabetes patients have accumulated a lot of knowledge about diabetes because they have been sick for a long time, so they feel that they have become "doctors" and treat the disease completely based on their feelings. When you feel uncomfortable, don't measure your blood sugar. If you feel low blood sugar, just add some sugar; if you feel high blood sugar, just take some anti-diabetic drugs. Aunt Song said: "I have been suffering from diabetes for more than ten years. I know a lot about diabetes. If my body feels strange, I can roughly guess what is causing it, and I will take countermeasures according to the situation. Other people with diabetes also like it. Discuss their condition with me and I will give them advice based on their situation, which they sometimes adopt.”

Although some old diabetes friends have already mastered some knowledge about diabetes, it is sometimes one-sided and sometimes contains errors. Diabetes is a complex disease and cannot be controlled entirely based on experience. When an abnormality occurs in your body, it is best to consult a doctor, otherwise you may go further and further down the wrong path and endanger your own health.

Mentality five - only focus on the present

Diabetes requires not only medical treatment, but also daily management by patients. In daily management, many patients cannot grasp the "degree" of blood sugar control, either they pay too much attention, or they don't pay much attention. People who pay too much attention to blood sugar changes do so because they only focus on blood sugar changes and ignore another important indicator for evaluating blood sugar standards - glycated hemoglobin. Blood sugar only reflects the blood sugar value at a certain moment, while glycated hemoglobin reflects The overall blood sugar level over a period of time. Combining the two, you can better control your health. So for your health, you should not only pay attention to immediate blood sugar changes, but also pay attention to long-term blood sugar levels, that is, glycated hemoglobin.

Either you control life, or life controls you. These are two completely different lives. I hope that people with diabetes can control their lives, correct their wrong attitudes towards diabetes in a timely manner, and make their lives better.