| Injecto, Diabetes affects so many aspects of our health that I don't think that it's unusal at all especially when your first diagnosed to wonder how various symptoms might be connected to diabetes. I've been diagnosed for about 3 1/2 years, and I'm still learning that diabetes can affect me in unexpected ways. For example, last year I had my first serious stomach flu with diabetes, and my blood sugar stayed low for almost a week. Before diabetes, I would have just thought that okay I'm sick and I'll recover. Now, I have to consider how everything from illness, to stress, to certain foods affects my blood sugar.
Diabetes defintely is not the cause of most things. But having diabetes can have unexpected secondary-side effects. Sometimes it not always easy to decide what is important and not important, but with time you'll get a better idea. I'm still learning and know that I have a lot to learn. We're very lucky because we live in a time when diabetes can be managed, and I firmly believe that if you take it seriously and manage it well that you will die from something else.  | 
