By
AmyT on
April 30, 2012
April showers bring May flowers… and they also bring us some of our fave blog posts! Here’s our very own monthly diabetes “blog carnival”:
For WEGO Health’s April series of health prompts, Sue reflects on things you need to learn the hard way, like… diabetes sucks?
Stacey Divone takes the new Accu-Chek Fastclix lancing device for a test drive.
Legendary type 2 blogger David Mendosa muses on the “wonderdrug” metformin: is this something we all…
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By
WilD on
April 28, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois, where our goal is to always “tell it like it is” — no matter what! We’re glad you’re here!
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Megan from Nevada, type 1, asks: Can you tell me how this whole “giving yourself a small dose of Lantus so you…
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“Can’t you just take a pill?” is a question most of us have heard again and again whenever we take an injection or show off our insulin pump to family, friends, or strangers. Taking insulin orally has been a wish of PWDs for many years, but the “non-invasive dream” goes about as far as the stomach acid destroying the hormone before it reaches your blood stream.
Injecting insulin subcutaneously has been the only option considered…
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According to the American Diabetes Association, seven million people have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, and a staggering 79 million more have pre-diabetes. Early detection of type 2 diabetes can save lives, which is what drives the ADA’s recent Diabetes Alert Day. But Dr. Michael Snyder, a geneticist at Stanford University, has taken early detection to a whole new level.
Dr. Snyder and his team have spent the last three years of their lives years working…
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