| If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you need | | | | You should also have a counseling session with your |
| counseling. In fact, you need several different forms of | | | | doctor. During this session, you should ask any |
| counseling to help you manage your disease properly. | | | | questions that you may have. You should also learn |
| The key to living well with diabetes is education. | | | | about the complications that can arise with diabetes, |
| You may experience depression when you are first | | | | what to be on the lookout for, proper foot care, and a |
| diagnosed, and mental counseling is a good idea. | | | | variety of other information. Learn as much as you |
| Mental therapy will help you to accept the condition, | | | | possibly can, and seek out other sources of |
| and help you to see that life really is going to move | | | | information as well. |
| forward, and that you can still move forward with it. | | | | Ask your doctor about support groups for diabetics in |
| The next kind of counseling you need is nutritional | | | | your area. These groups will really be a big help. |
| counseling. A nutritional counselor can work with you | | | | Everyone in the group has been exactly where you |
| and your doctor to help devise a meal plan for you. | | | | are, and you can learn a lot concerning foods, |
| The meal plan will be designed to help control your | | | | exercise, health concerns, and even insurance |
| blood sugar levels, and to help you lose weight if that is | | | | coverage. |
| needed as well. | | | | With all of this counseling, you will see that you do not |
| If you have been prescribed medication, you need | | | | have to fear your condition. You are just as capable |
| pharmaceutical counseling. This is done with your | | | | of living a normal life today as you were before you |
| pharmacist when you pick up your prescriptions. It is | | | | were diagnosed with diabetes. It isn't a death sentence. |
| vital that you take the time needed for this counseling. | | | | You are not going to be limited or confined in any way |
| Plan it in advance, and make sure that you ask any | | | | -- as long as you manage your diabetes properly. |
| questions that you may have. | | | | |