Diabetics Can't Afford Four More Years
Updated: 2012-09-30 02:15:18
Happy Saturday! Welcome to Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil takes on the Evolution of Diabetes, as it occurs in your body over time — and you…
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This time, we’re chatting with Tom Ley, who has a unique story in that he’s not…
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WTF? You may ask… But diabetes affects millions…
In theory, diagnosing diabetes should be fairly simple. Have a fasting blood sugar over 127 mg/dL? Congratulations, you’re probably in the D-Club. Have a blood sugar reading over 200 mg/dL any time? Congratulations, you’re definitely a club member.
But not…
You all know about Diabetes Art Day today, right? It’s an ever-growing “web-based initiative for the Diabetes Online Community to ‘tell a story’ about life with diabetes though creative visual expression,” dreamed up and organized by one of our fave…
The leaves are falling and it’s starting to feel like autumn. But does our diabetes management have to play along?!
Much love to our talented guest cartoonist Meredith Gruebbel, who is a type 1 PWD working as…
Need help navigating life with diabetes? Ask D’Mine! That would be our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
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: Living with Diabetes This is the story of my life as a type2 diabetic . I am fighting my type2. It is a struggle , but so is any other fight in our lives . I track my numbers at http : www.fighttype2.com a website that I . created Sunday , September 09, 2012 Experimenting with medicine timings I am not always open to moving the timings around , but I tried it out last week and now it seems to be working . better I used to take my 24 hour insulin in the night before I went to bed . It was working great for my wake up sugars , but the day time numbers were not doing so . great So last week I tried to move the insulin to the mornings and lo and behold I have a lot more control during the . day So happy to report that changing the timing can sometime actually help make things better . Posted
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