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Thread: How long can a person live with diabetes?

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12-03-2008, 07:40 PM

Lloyd

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I am a: Type 2

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: South Dakota

Posts: 902

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franzen40

Can a person with diabetes live as long as someone without it? Will everyone with diabetes eventually get the complications such as blindness and amputations? I read that a lot of people with diabetes have their lives shortened by eighteen years... why is this? If we get proper care and treatment why can't we live just as long? I'll do whatever it takes, but right now I have little to no hope and really don't feel like living anymore when I know I'm going to die soon anyway.

Richard157, a member here, has had it 63 years

Getting proper care is the the thing.

-Lloyd

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