Standing in the corner of a dark room, my eyes took a few moments to adjust to the darkness.
Ten feet in front of me, my mom sat at an eye-testing device the size of an oven. Next to her, a doctor stared at a dimmed screen, with two boxes displayed — one had a close-up of my mom’s right eye showing the inside crosshairs and the other resembled a line graph of what an eye-based…
Three extra lines on an eye chart.
That may not seem like much at first glance (!), but those lines represent a significant step forward in the treatment of a form of diabetic retinopathy known as diabetic macular edema (DME).
In groundbreaking news this week, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the first drug of its kind to treat DME for people with diabetes, called Lucentis from California-based Genentech.
The FDA noted that this drug…
My dog has fleas. And so do I.
Thanks to my diabetes.
Yes, the official word from our Riley dog’s vet is that People with Diabetes (PWDs) are more susceptible to bug bites, from mosquitoes to fleas. Even my endo backs that up as true statement.
If you still don’t believe it, come on over to my house. I have the itchy bites to prove it.
Actually, no. Strike that. We had fleas, but we’ve…
When I started writing our 411 series on diabetes complications, I expected that it would take me roughly a year to cover them all. Off the top of my head, I knew the Big Four: blindness, kidney failure, neuropathy, and heart disease. I knew there were some “lesser known” — or at least, lesser recognized — complications like depression and erectile dysfunction. But we’re now 18 months into the 411 series, and there are still more. Oy!…
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Complications of diabetes are nothing that anyone likes to think about, but here at the ‘Mine, we believe knowledge is power. So we’ve been running a “411 info series” on a variety of complications, from heart disease to neuropathy to depression.
Back in December we talked about frozen shoulder (which has nothing to do with cold weather), and now we’re moving down your arm to talk about carpal tunnel syndrome — an incredibly common ailment…