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Diabetes can occur at any age. From your description, it does seem that your blood sugars are poorly controlled, and that may account for the tiredness, lack of interest, depression, and inability to maintain a somewhat higher weight. You need to be in regular touch with a competent diabetologist, who will guide you on how to achieve and maintain good control of your diabetes, weight and general health, as well as how to prevent the complications which can occur with diabetes. You do not have to live in a big city for this: once the basic workup has been done, you may need to visit the diabetologist only 3-4 times a year. I would also suggest you visit diabetes.org, which is the site for the American Diabetes Association, and carefully go through the section on STANDARDS OF CARE. You may also find diabetes.com, which is meant for lay people, useful. As far as walking is concerned, you can and should certainly go for walks: they will help you control your diabetes, gain muscle and therefore weight,and reduce stress. However, you should walk within the current limits of your tolerance, i.e. do not walk so much that you exhaust yourself. It would be a good idea for you to have a glycosylated hemoglobin (hemoglobin A1c) test done. This would give information on the average blood glucose over the last 3 months and would help your doctor to plan out further treatment.
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