Here’s a quick biology quiz: what is the largest organ in your body?
Time’s up!
It’s… your skin! Did you get it right? Despite the fact that your skin is on the outside, it is your largest organ and as we’ve discussed in previous editions in our 411 on Diabetes Complications series, diabetes can affect every organ in (or on!) your body. This goes for your skin too! With the summer heat barreling down, more…
Welcome once again to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, where we talk all about navigating life with diabetes. In this edition, our host Wil Dubois (veteran type 1, author and diabetes community educator) takes on questions that may not only bring you to tears, but could also make you want to log some blood sugars! Read on!
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There’s no end in sight when you have diabetes — but is there ever a time when it’s right to quit your meds? In this edition of our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, a couple of our readers are wondering if their meds are no longer so good…
As per usual, we’ve got some info-packed responses from host Wil Dubois, diabetes author and community educator and also a veteran type 1 himself.
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The only constant in diabetes is that it’s always changing. Numbers go up, numbers go down. Medication doses change. Your body changes. So how on earth do you figure out what to do when things start to go haywire? This month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) carnival is focused on exactly that:
When it comes to diabetes, sometimes it seems things change more than they stay the same. Every so often, we may start to…