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Categories: Type 1 Type 2
Tags: diabetes comparisons rollercoasters
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Diabetes is a roller coaster. Sometimes it's amazing. Sometimes it's scary. Sometimes it's excruciating. A good roller coaster has ups and downs, twists, turns and unexpected adventures. Roller coasters vary in speed, style, form and build. Diabetes has the same twists and turns, the same diversity. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Complications Real Life
Tags: advocacy death diabetes comparisons disease immune system non-diabetic siblings triggers
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While researchers have isolated in the vicinity of two dozen genes associated with autoimmune (type 1) diabetes, we still haven't figured out how one of a pair of identical twins might develop type 1 diabetes, while the other remains diabetes-free. (Such a case exists.) This suggests that while genes may be part of the equation, they're not the sum total of "why someone gets type 1 diabetes".
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications
Tags: blood sugars dLife pancakes vampires
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With all the blood that diabetes care involves, it's no wonder the "vampire" image keeps coming into play. A former T2 co-worker referred to going for blood work as "seeing the Vampire". Kerri's Diabetes Terms of Endearment list includes the entry, "Vampire cannula". For those who live in fear of (fictional) vampires, every time we prick our fingers to test... has to include the scary thought, "Am I inviting a vampire to bite me?"
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: bad habits logbooks Logging skipping boluses
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For the past few years, I've gotten into the bad diabetes habit of skipping boluses. Not food boluses. But blood sugar boluses. I have the habit of foregoing boluses when my blood sugar is 160 and under. I'll see a 140 or 155 and skip the bolus instead of bringing it down to 100. But above 160, I'm good about bolusing to bring the number down (something about those 180s and 200s scare me into submission).
I know that this extremely bad habit leaves my averages a little higher than they should be. And I'm not sure exactly why I do this...maybe over the years, a 150 doesn't seem so bad. Maybe I just get tired of so many injections a day so I leave off the "unnecessary" ones. Maybe it's some habit that I started in my childhood.
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: self-identification social attitudes
Views: 1166
Every so often, a discussion will pop up about how to refer to those of us with glucose metabolism issues. Whether it's "diabetic versus person with diabetes", "borderline versus prediabetes", or even the whole "Type 1 / Type 2 / Type 1.5 / Gestational / Other" schema, these discussions run very deep to the core of our sense of identity... perhaps just as deeply as skin tone, religion, or ethnicity.
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