“Sometimes, people don’t tell their doctor the truth,” says endocrinologist Alan L. Rubin, MD, author of Diabetes for Dummies, Type 1 Diabetes for Dummies and other health books in the “Dummies” series. “You may want your doctor to like you. Or you may be afraid he or she will scold you. You may be afraid of being judged. But if you don’t tell the truth, your diabetes care could suffer.”
Here’s how eight common fibs could mess with your blood sugar and your health:
Lie #1: “I check my blood sugar regularly.”
Blood glucose monitoring is a powerful tool for keeping your diabetes in control. But 2 out of 3 people with type 1 diabetes don’t check their blood sugar as often as recommended by the American Diabetes Association, according to a study of 44,181 people by researchers from California’s Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program. In a National Institutes of Health study of 1,480 people with type 2 diabetes, 24% of those who used insulin, 65% who used oral medications for diabetes, and 80% who controlled their blood sugar with diet and exercise said they tested their blood sugar less than once a month.
Lie #2: “I take all of my medications, all the time.”
Blame it on side effects, the price tag, inconvenience or a ‘what, me worry?’ attitude. In any case, about 20 to 40% of people with diabetes don’t take blood sugar-controlling pills or injections the way their doctor prescribed them, according to experts from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Lie #3: “I exercise every day!”
Just 19% of people with diabetes get the physical activity they need; in nationwide phone surveys, one in three told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers they hadn’t exercised at all in the past month.
Lie #4: “I always eat healthy.”
In a recent, international survey of 652 people with diabetes from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan and Brazil, 50% admitted that they hadn’t really changed their diet much since their diagnosis. When researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle checked up on the eating habits of 1,480 people with diabetes, they found that 62% ate fewer than 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day. Just 17% got enough fiber and just 19% kept their salt intake down to healthy levels in an Israeli study of more than 1,000 Americans with diabetes.
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