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Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 76

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 46

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 41

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 32

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 30

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 23

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 21

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Diabetes Forecast – July 2014 – Page 20

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Diabetes Forecast is the premier magazine for people affected by diabetes. Each month’s issue provides timely, authoritative information about every aspect of living with and managing this serious condition. From profiles of real people with diabetes to hands-on tips for health management to some of the most delicious healthy recipes around, you wont want to miss an issue. You know you can trust Diabetes Forecast because it is produced by the American Diabetes Association, and all content is vetted by top diabetes medical experts.

Source: www.diabetesforecast-digital.org

Soy Diabética controlada y esta es mi historia

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Yo me excedí desde pequeña, nunca fui obesa pero sí comelona, especialmente de pan, y para suerte mi papá era panadero.  Así que carbohidratos era lo que abundaban en mi casa.  Todavía hoy se me hace la boca agua cuando me acuerdo de los cinco bollitos de pan que me comía en el primer recreo de la escuela. 

 

Así, poco a poco me convertí en una big fan de los panes y de los carbos en general.  Pero hace un año y diez meses Su Majestad La Vida me cacheteó y bueno…. yo respondí con valentía, como las mujeres y hombres de nuestra pequeña familia.  Debuté con una glicemia de 368 en ayunas y 589 dos horas después, además de una hemoglobina glicosilada de 12.5.  Con 7 kilos perdidos y ya en catabolia me medicaron con insulina.  ¡Ohhh Dios, qué llorada me di!!! Ser diabética era algo a lo que le tenía mucho temor y por supuesto no deseaba esta enfermedad en mi vida.  Pero comencé a nadar, procurando en cada brazada bajar mis niveles de glucosa.  Lo logré, tres meses después me quitaron la insulina e inicié tratamiento con una pastilla al día.  Ahora, un año y diez meses después la mala y triste noticia que aquel día me hizo derramar tantas lágrimas me ha ayudado a cambiar por completo mi estilo de vida.  Aprendí a incorporar el ejercicio en mi vida, ahora nado y uso la elíptica, sigo un programa de alimentación con una nutricionista, mi hermano me obsequió un glucómetro que se ha convertido en mi mejor compañero, y así durante mi primer año como diabética pude aprender a conocer mis mediciones.

 

No ha sido fácil…. lo confieso… pero ¡sí se puede!!  Ahora mis hemoglobinas glicosiladas están normales (5.3) y mis valores postprandiales también.  Día tras día me mantengo en el Triángulo de la Vida, como lo llamo yo, tomo mi medicamento, hago mi ejercicio y me como lo que me corresponde, en las porciones que me corresponden.  Pude vencer mi adicción a los carbohidratos y ya no me hacen falta como antes.  Todo esto lo hice porque no quiero perder mis piernas y quedar como tío cosa, tampoco quiero quedar ciega, como Homero, jajaja.  Tampoco deseo que mis riñones se afecten ni que mis nervios se dañen por una neuritis, no deseo que me amputen ninguna parte de mi cuerpo al que hoy amo tanto y al que he aprendido a respetar y a admirar.

 

A mí me encanta la tecnología, soy Traductora y profesora de inglés en el INA, Costa Rica, y quizá mi historia les sirva para que eviten coquetear con el aumento de peso, con los triglicéridos elevados, con el síndrome metabólico y con la obesidad.

Evitemos la diabetes, o como decimos en inglés Let´s Stop Diabetes!, la enfermedad que ha matado a más personas que todas las guerras mundiales juntas.  Cambiemos nuestro estilo de vida, hagamos ejercicio por nuestra salud y comamos comida sana… este es el Triángulo de la Vida, ¡no nos alejemos de él!!!!

Un besote y un abrazote a mi familia, a mi médico y a mi nutricionista por todo el apoyo que me han dado en estos casi dos años de luchas y cambios.

 

Y muchas gracias a todos por leerme.

 

Marisol Araya Fonseca