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Tips From My D-Friends: Fit Snacks, Flatsey Glucose Meter, Tweeting Made Easy

Diabetes Mine

All the most useful and intriguing things I learned about diabetes seem to come from other patients. No contest. Every time I correspond with folks in the community and read other PWDs blogs (as much as time permits), I am blown away by the stuff I hear

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Feb 3, Faq: Metabolic Syndrome & High Cholesterol

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

by Lac Tran Q: My doctor told me that I need to lower cholesterol, and she says I have something called metabolic syndrome. What is that? Do I need

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“Patients” versus “Health Care Consumers”? Both, If You Ask Me

Diabetes Mine

Over at DiabetesDaily, there’s been a series of discussions going on about How the Internet is Changing Diabetes Care — a topic about which I have many opinions (surprise, surprise).  I was particularly intrigued to see Manny Hernandez’s piece about the i

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Farewell, Appie!

Dorkabetic

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On Failure, Success, Perfection and Judgment

Diabetes Mine

I am VERY busy and feeling torn in a lot of different directions lately, so if you asked me to rate my diabetes control at the moment, I wouldn’t even know where to begin. A quick look at my meter averages doesn’t paint a very pretty picture: 14-day avera

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My medicine is trying to kill me?

Bjays Blog

On DiabetesConnect.com, someone posted a question about why insulin causes you to gain weight. I read it's because it signals for fat retention and carb cravings. However, it reminded me I had a similar problem with metformin - my oral diabete

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It’s all in the feet.

Being Diabetic

I was feeling pretty stressed out by the end of last year, and a friend suggested I ‘go and get a massage or something, something to really treat yourself and de-stress at the same time’. She mentioned she’d been to a reflexologist in London and had had r

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Like Father, Like Daughter… God I Hope Not

The Big "D"

In the last couple of hours, as I have been reading blog posts throughout the Diabetes community, something this really started to sink in and affect me. I am not sure why it didn’t yesterday or any days before that but today has been the day. As it alway

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Jan 27, Fact Sheet-Diabetes Insipidus

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

Fact sheet- diabetes insipidus by Groshan Fabiola Diabetes insipidus is the type of diabetes characterized by your body� s inability to

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Don’t fail me now, Please don’t

http://diabeticizme.wordpress.com/

WARNING !!!   THIS BLOG IS REALLY LONG I went to Arizona this weekend to attend my BSF (best sister friends) baby shower.   On Sunday we decided to go to lunch since spent most of the morning putting Avery’s (soon to be god son) room together. So we went

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