The reality is, sometimes our bodies need help.
虽然我一直在生活type 2 diabetes自2000年以来，它只是在过去几年中，我已经成为围绕药物的耻辱的过度游戏，用于管理2型糖尿病。
明确：服用2型糖尿病的药物并不意味着你失败了。
So why the stigma? Type 2 diabetes is often seen as a lifestyle disease. The common误解is that people with type 2 brought it on themselves with bad choices and laziness.
Many people believe that if we brought it on, we should be able to fix it.
With all the new diet trends and supplements available, many believe reversing type 2 is a quick fix through lifestyle.
在线竞技场是一种糖尿病建议的地雷：
Just eatketo和your diabetes will go away!
只需采取XYZ补充剂，您的糖尿病会消失！
Just drink (inserthorrible vegetable juice这里）你的糖尿病会消失！
只是减肥，你的糖尿病会消失！
Just. Just. Just.
但是什么时候没有？
在过去的8年里，我完全改革了我的生活。在纸上，我已经完成了一切“对。”
改变我的进食方式？查看。
Start exercising? Check.
减掉100磅？查看。
我甚至到目前为止成为私人教练和健身教练，锻炼我的职业生涯。但猜猜怎么了？我仍然需要药物来管理我的numbers.
Looking through the lens of the outside world, it would be easy for me to be disappointed or feel let down by my body.
相反，这里有一些帮助我接受我的药物治疗方案作为我糖尿病自我照顾的一部分，而不是看起来反映我的努力和自我价值。
我选择将药物视为糖尿病管理工具箱中的工具。
我的药物治疗与我的类别相同blood glucose meter,连续葡萄糖监测器（CGM）, weights, scale, andfood choices.
They are all equally important to my overall goal of living a long and healthy life with type 2 diabetes.
With diabetes, everything seems to be about the numbers.A1C，空腹血糖，胆固醇，每周锻炼多少天，你吃的碳水化合物有多少，以及你的药物有多少。
It’s hard to avoid comparing your numbers with someone else’s. It’s especially difficult not to compare your progress with someone else’s.
I had to learn to put blinders on and focus on my own path. My body, my diabetes, and my medical history are unique, so measuring myself against others didn’t make any sense.
Over the last 2 decades, I’ve needed different levels of intervention in the form of medication.
在我的两次怀孕期间，我正在吃饭和长效的胰岛素。一旦我完成母乳喂养，我就又回到了口服药物。
由于个人危机，当营养和锻炼不是我的优先事项时，也有一段时间。在这期间，添加了一种药物以帮助将我的号码降低。
当我推荐健康的生活方式时，我能够完全减少或消除药物。
无论是季节还是永久性，我都不得不好。
The world is, quite literally, at our fingertips. With a quick online search, millions of articles appear with seemingly legitimate information on how to live with, manage, or evencureyour type 2 diabetes (no such thing, by the way).
I had to limit my consumption. This meant only taking in reliable sources of information.
I avoided social media “doctors” claiming to have all the answers. I avoided listening to the well-meaning stranger who commented on my Instagram post about the herbalist who cured his cousin.
I made it a part of my self-care to unfollow people who regularly told me my way was wrong or shamed me for the way I chose to manage my diagnosis.
Having an open line of communication with my medical care team is an essential part of my diabetes management.
I had to meet several doctors until I found a doctor I was comfortable with.
Now, I’m always open and honest about my feelings, plans, hesitations, and concerns. I ask any questions I have so my doctor has an opportunity to address them.
Being my own advocate is empowering, and my doctor is there to be my partner. I’ve learned not to be afraid of speaking up.
The reality is, sometimes our bodies need help.
我在过去的21年里学到了什么是没有one管理2型糖尿病的方法。
Some will be able to manage their blood glucose through lifestyle and weight loss and others will need medication.
无论该方法如何，目标都是相同的：生存长，健康，充实的生活，尽管2型糖尿病。
Mary Van Doorn住在格鲁吉亚与她的丈夫，他们的两个孩子，三只狗和三只猫。她是2型糖尿病倡导者和创始人糖妈妈强大的健身和健康和糖妈妈强烈的糖尿病支持. When she’s not taking care of the kids, the house, or the zoo, you can find her binge-watching her favorite shows: “Grey’s Anatomy,” “This is Us,” and “A Million Little Things.”
