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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships In the News
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Have diabetes? Get married.
This headline out of Mumbai caught my eye. I've been urging Charlie to get married for years.
The article is about an online matchmaking service in India called diabeticmatrimony.com.
Looking for your diabetic soul mate? Looking for that certain special diabetic someone? Want to trade in your spouse for one who gets it? Someone who really understands what it's like to have diabetes? Diabeticmatrimony.com might be for you.
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Emotions
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Diatribe recently ran an interview with the JDRF's new President and CEO Jeffrey Brewer. In the interview, as do most new Presidents, Mr. Brewer outlined his vision for the organization. It includes "moving away from the over reliance on the cure as the central part of our message and funding" and a new focus on improvements in day to day living for people with type 1 and seeking means of prevention for those at risk for type 1.
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Today, at the grocery store, I spotted a pump.
On a woman at the deli, a black Deltec Cozmo.
Seeing a pump like that, I can’t help but ask about it.
Once, on a train, I saw a woman dosing herself, with what was obviously a pump. When I asked her about it, flashing her my own portable pancreas, she looked shocked and said “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I felt terribly for asking about something that clearly made her uncomfortable.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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Monday morning, I headed to the endo in a state of hope and undeniable fear. I wanted Metformin, but had no idea how it might go in order to get it...being type 1 and all. I've been so run down by the PCOS symptoms that I'm dealing with, especially the acne. And I needed this to get through, to try, to continue hoping.
So when I posed the question of using Metformin, my heart was in my throat. Would Dr. K give me the request? Would she work with me to possibly solve some of my biggest health issues?
No. The risk that Metformin causes for acidosis was too much for a type 1, in her opinion. It just isn't an option for me...in her words.
It felt like a hammer to the thumb, a blow to the stomach, a slap in the face. The last piece of hope that I was holding on to...stripped from me. All because I'm a type 1 diabetic. The one last try that I had to solve my PCOS issues...gone.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: flu flu shot h1n1
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Despite the fact that temperatures here in the Valley of the Sun (or as my brother likes to call it The Actual Sun) continue to hover around 100 degrees, it's technically fall, which means that flu season is upon us.
I don't think I ever got a flu shot prior to getting diabetes. I was healthy for the most part and likely didn't understand what the flu really is. And even four years into the disease, last fall was the first time I got the shot since being diagnosed.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: heat Low blood sugars summer issues
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I've worked really hard the past few months to lose some weight. I've been eating better (cutting out fast food, "extras" like dinner rolls or second servings, and leaving the snacks on the snack aisle at the grocery store). On top of that, I'm working out about three times a week either at the gym or on the treadmill at home. And I'm proud to say that I've lost six pounds and several inches.
But the past week has thrown a major kink in my progress. I'm too scared to even step on the scale to see how these low and "lower" blood sugars are affecting me. I know my calorie intake has increased between the cokes, snacks, and extra carbs I'm consuming to offset these things.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: diabetes gadgets paraphernalia
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Diabetes has always entailed a lot of paraphernalia. Back in the day, meters were three times the size they are now. Bottles of strips weighed a ton. And syringes came with much longer needles. Plus there were juice boxes, snack packs, and rolls of candy. But even now, with all the advances in this modern day and age, diabetes comes with baggage (and I'm not talking the emotional kind).
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Categories: Type 2 In the News
Tags: amputations compliance complications
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I have not been compliant with my diabetes protocol for several months. I haven't been testing, I haven't been watching what I eat or exercising. I've even been eating straight carb snacks - when I'm supposed to "never eat carbs alone! "
I can "get away" with this once in a while because I'm early in Type 2. But today I read a story that pulled me up short.
People with diabetes are 15 times more likely to have a lower limb amputation than those without the disease. Yes, FIFTEEN times more likely. And then, 70% of the people who have amputations are dead within 5 years.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows In the News
Tags: hypoglycemia Lantus lows online article
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Low blood sugars that happen in the middle of the night really suck! You're dead asleep, and then all of the sudden your dreams start getting confusing and weird. You start feeling like you should probably drag yourself out of bed and get something from your sugar stash. You barely have the energy to get up and then once you do you stumble around and nearly black out. You feel confused and you act and look as though you've had WAY too much to drink. Then after you climb back into bed you just sit there for a while and you try to wait patiently while your sugar goes back up or until you feel good enough to fall back asleep.
Well, that's what happened to me last night, and what I tend to experience almost once a week.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications
Tags: hair loss hypothyroidism thyroid
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It seems to me that nearly every female in the diabetes online community has thyroid issues also. I got curious about this and did some reading. Nearly a third of Type 1 patients have thyroid disorders, usually an underactive thyroid. It does indeed affect more women than men. This is because if you have one auto-immune disease, like Type 1, you are at higher risk for another. As if people with diabetes need another challenge. The linked article also cites a higher than normal incidence of thyroid disease in Type 2 diabetics, but no statistics are given. (READ MORE)
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