Not long ago, I reported here on the possible benefits of Metformin for people with type 1 diabetes. It is of course an oral medication traditionally aimed at type 2 diabetics who are not on insulin. Today, we revisit that issue with a real live test case — my friend and colleague Allison Blass, who’s recently added Metformin to her own regime:
A Guest Post by Allison Blass
Over the past few years, since graduating…
Everyone lives with — and copes with — diabetes in their own unique way. But some of us are more unique than others? No, that’s not the point. Today, a perspective from yet another kindred spirit, Hannah McDonald, a self-proclaimed nerd who lives in Pennsylvania and has been blogging about the Big D since 2008:
A Guest Post by Hannah McDonald, of Dorkabetic
Hello, DiabetesMine Readers.
You may have found my blog before, or you may…
When I met fellow D-writer Catherine Price for coffee recently, I immediately gushed about everything we had in common: two brunette journalist-types living in the SF Bay Area, both diagnosed a few years ago with LADA (or so I thought). Catherine gave me a sideways look, and then began grilling me about the formal definition of LADA. I had to admit, it’s pretty fuzzy. Today, I gratefully present you with the results of her investigation…
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One of the common criticisms of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is its overwhelming emphasis on children and parents of children with diabetes — with little to no recognition that kids with diabetes, well… grow up. Or that ever-growing numbers of us are being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as adults. God knows I’ve been vocal in pestering the JDRF on this issue over the past couple of years.
Slowly, the organization has branched out,…
If you run a diabetes blog, web site, or small organization doing some kind of diabetes advocacy work, you will want to know about this: a new ‘Diabetes Advocates Program‘ that can help you and your work get noticed.
Basically, TuDiabetes founder Manny Hernandez and David Edelman of DiabetesDaily put on their thinking caps after last summer’s Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche. Everyone in attendance was in the same boat: working hard on…