Diabetes is very dangerous, uncontrolled diabetes can have very serious effects on your body. Many people go through life with diabetes without even knowing it until everything goes haywire. It can lie in wait for many years causing many problems which your doctor treats individually for them to reappear many times without apparent cause. They keep multiplying and adding up until it is too late and the doctor finally puts them all together. This is why today many doctors order blood tests for glucose from the very beginning of an examination, to make sure your glucose levels are normal.

Uncontrolled diabetes has a direct effect on blood pressure and the heart. Uncontrolled or changing blood pressure will eventually weaken the heart muscles and tear them producing a heart attack. High blood pressure will also eventually affect your eye sight, the cornea has very thin and delicate blood vessels in it and an excess in pressure will rupture them and may produce permanent blindness.

The lack of insulin to process glucose will also eventually produce kidney failure because the kidneys are overwhelmed by the efforts they make to filter the glucose out of the blood. The kidneys will eventually shut down to protect themselves from further damage. This only happens when permanent damage has already been caused and can’t be reversed though. The lack of insulin can also produce a condition called hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is a condition in which the body does not have enough glucose to burn and keep all its systems functioning. A person suffering from this because of lack of insulin will pass out and eventually enter into a diabetic coma.

When this happens he will have already produced irreparable damage to his kidneys and heart, the diabetic coma is the last resort the body has to save itself, so it shuts down completely to protect whatever is left functioning. Excessive blood pressure may also lead to the amputation of fingers or more. The fingers have delicate blood vessels, much the same as the cornea, that rupture and this rupture goes undetected because it does not cause great effects and it doesn’t have any symptoms either.

The circulatory system will heal itself and leaves the broken vessels out of the system, they will no longer receive fresh, oxygenated blood so the tissue will eventually die and rot. The removal of the affected limb will be necessary to prevent further infection and advance. Many times people who have uncontrolled diabetes have lost their legs or arms because of this same situation going on for a long time.

Untreated diabetes is like a bomb waiting to explode, something will break down sooner or later and then all hell will break lose. Keeping diabetes under control is not hard; it only requires periodical visits to the doctor, that is if you cannot test yourself and permanent medication in the exact prescribed doses. Some healthy food and a little exercise should keep you in good shape for a long time.