Diabetes Education

Learn how to self-manage diabetes

Learning how to manage diabetes is the most critical component of caring for yourself after you’ve been diagnosed. Diabetes can result in serious health complications if a person does not understand how to care for themselves. At Methodist Health System, our diabetes education services can help you prevent or delay diabetes-related problems like heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, amputations, erectile dysfunction, and blindness.

In our FREE diabetes education course, you will learn:

• How to build a diabetes friendly diet
• How diabetes works and what you can do to keep it under control
• Wound prevention and care
• Fun ways to stay active
• The long-term complications of diabetes and how to prevent them
• How to manage stress
• Where you can find community support resources

When you have diabetes your health care team is very important; however, most of the time you will be responsible for your own care.