A few main questions about diabetes?

Can I die from it? What are my possibilities of losing a leg? How does a high or low number affect me? Will I be able to donate organs or blood? And if having diabetes means your pancreas isn't giving any insulin, why can't they cure you by just transplanting a new pancreas? I beg you to please answer every question, thanks so much!

Yes, if you don't take care of it, it will kill you.

Slim (if you take care of it)

You want to keep your numbers in range. The more you go out of range, the more you risk complications.

Maybe, depending on how well you take care of it.

Type two diabetics make plenty of insulin... in the beginning. As the "insulin resistance" progresses, the pancreas works harder and harder. Eventually, it can become damaged from being overworked and subjected to sustained high blood glucose. This is when a type two needs insulin. The idea is to take care of it with good diet and plenty of exercise.

Pancreas transplants are risky, expensive, and difficult. Best to avoid going there.... if you can. Type one diabetics don't have the option. We type twos do. It's all about proper care through knowledge.

As Foghorn Leghorn states, if you don't keep good control of your diabetes, yes, it can kill you.

The possibilities of losing a leg are reduced dramatically if your blood sugar levels are kept in a 'near normal' range as possible (4-7 mmol/l or 72-126 mg/dL) ... and not just short term. This means all the time.

I'm not sure about in the United States, but in the UK, if your blood sugar levels are well balanced, you can donate blood and organs. (There's a possibility, if you don't take care of your diabetes, that you may not be able to donate kidneys. This is due to one of the complications of diabetes that's called nephropathy.)

Pancreas transplants have been attempted for at least 30 years now. Unfortunately, the success rate is not high, due to the fact that your body sees an 'invading force' and sets out to destroy it. (Tissue rejection.) Across the world there is now an alternative type of operation taking place called islet cell transplantation. This is where the islet cells are taken from two donated pancreases and injected into the liver. (The liver has a rich source of oxygen, and the hope is that the islet cells will 'bed' themselves in, and start producing insulin for themselves. Unfortunately, similar problems to the tissue rejection as seen in pancreas transplants, seems to be the stumbling block. There are now experimental surgeries which include 'enveloping' the islet cells within an extract of seaweed taking place. This, apparently, deters tissue rejection.)

In the UK now, an alternative operation is being offered with regards to pancreas transplantation. It's normally only offered to type 1 diabetics that are on kidney dialysis, and are in need of a kidney too. It's a joint kidney and pancreas transplant. Again, the success rate is not as high as would be liked, but when you've reached end stage kidney failure it's seen as a viable alternative.

You don't give details about the type of diabetes that you have, but you do mention "pancreas isn't giving any insulin". This would suggest that you are either type 1 (insulin dependent) or that you have had type 2 for some considerable time, and now your pancreas isn't producing insulin.

I pray that your receive all the answers you need to make wise choices, but I must advise you to take very good care of your diabetes. There are many complications that can affect an uncontrolled diabetic ... some of these are just a pain in the butt, but some of them can be embarrassing, and others quite lethal.

I wish you the very best of luck.

you don't die cause diabetes, but most of people with diabetes die cause complication disease. so...you must control your blood glucose. one of complication diabetes is perifer varcular disease or gangren.....final solution by amputation foot etc. Transplantating is one alternative solution to change pancreate ......but very high risk