When people first find out that they have diabetes, it's sometimes really scary, or sad, or even hard to believe.

After all, you probably don't feel sick, or any different than you felt before you were told you have diabetes. And yet it is very important to take this disease seriously.

Some people who learn they have diabetes worry that it means their life is over, or that they won't be able to do everything they used to do. Neither of those things is true.